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What do you feed a baby sparrow bird?

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That depends on its age.

They should be eating for themselves at about 3 weeks old and should be eating seed then - soaked for a few hours in water to soften it is best. Suitable seeds - canary, millet, canola (rape), niger, hemp - anything reasonably small.

When they hatch they would be fed either insects and/or green, unripe seeds by their parents. To hand-rear one, you could feed either a commercial canary egg-biscuit (rearing) food, or soaked complete dog ration along with some soaked or cooked small seeds.

Change the diet from one to the other as the bird ages.

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