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today I'm gonna go over everything you
need to know about caring for a baby
orphan squirrel
so the very first thing you're gonna do
whenever you get the scroll see if it's
dehydrated now to find out the scroll
dehydrated you can pinch it back up and
if the skin stays wrinkled and it
doesn't expand back out that means the
squirrel is dehydrated then you need to
get some Pedialyte the best kind of
Pedialyte you can get is the non
flavored if you can find it so after you
get the scroll hydrated you can give
them the milk before they're hydrated
but they're not gonna be able to take it
it might kill but after they're hydrated
you want to give them some milk now you
don't want to buy premix meal this is
Hizballah toughy formula and that's
powder formula there's the best stuff
that you can get to feed baby squirrels
now we'll show you the mixing right here
for this it's not the same as what's on
the back up but you need to determine
the size of the squirrel and how old it
is before you feed it because you know
how much you feed it depends on how old
it is
so this squirrel right here is about
three weeks old because it's furry
Oliver and his eyes it and open their
eyes opened about four weeks so he's got
fur all over at about two weeks on they
start to get firown' so they'll be a
little bit furry but at about three
weeks they're full of fur they got their
bottom teeth their incisors are coming
in all right so I'm gonna link a chart
and another a link to another website
down below this is gonna tell you how to
judge how old the squirrels are now if
the squirrels don't have firm them yet
you're gonna need to keep them on some
kind of external heating source so the
best thing to do is get you like a box
or like a little cooler or something and
then you can put a heating pad under it
but only halfway under that way if the
babies get too hot on top of heating pad
they can crawl off of it
whenever you store the babies you want
to keep something in there that they can
give me you see I got it I got a towel
in here they got these in a little hoody
writer you want to keep something warm
that they can get in especially if they
don't have any fur on the
don't have any fur on them you
definitely want to keep them warm or
they'll wanna have done but once they
start to get firm you don't have to keep
them on that external heating source you
can just put them in something like this
or a towel and keep them in a container
you want to keep in something with high
side so they can't crawl out because a
lot of times that's how they get away
from their nest they crawl the nest
whenever they start to open their eyes
they fall out it can't get someone bird
get some now the the feeding ratio is
gonna be based off the size of the
squirrel once again the link below will
give you all the details to everything
you need to know for the different size
but we're gonna be showing you today how
to feed one that is this size I don't
have one of every size now I have raised
probably about 50 of these things people
bring them to me every year whenever
they thought the trees the cats gonna
hold up and her storms they're just have
a bunch of people know that I have taken
care of them before and I know how to
take care of them and they're always
bring them to me so I raised a lot of
these things they don't really make good
pets once they start again
mature they want to go to find a mate to
get kind of rough with you they'll bite
you you I've had them bite through my
finger most of the time when I started
mature you need to let them go alright
now you want to mix enough milk to feed
the babies for at least two or three
days depending on what size the babies
are and how many you're feeding depends
on how much formula you want to mix
together for me I've got four of them so
I'm gonna fill this up about half way
that's gonna last about two days so you
want your mixing ratio to be one part
powder to two parts water well you want
to get the water hot almost to a bone
point so we're gonna do this is a half a
cup I'm gonna be using 1/4 cup of powder
we're gonna go ahead and put a half a
cup of water here put it here and then
I'm warming up everyone watch it this
one starts the bowling put in here five
thirty seconds then once it starts
boiling I'm gonna stop it I'm going to
take it out you don't want the water
really passed bowling because if the
water is passed bowling when you're
going to mix the powder together it's
gonna it's gonna bowl all the nutrients
out of the formula that the baby
squirrels need so now that we have our
hot water we're gonna dump about half of
this powder into the cup here you know
alright and we are gonna put a little
bit of water here now stir you lumpy mix
together best you can and then put the
rest of the powder in there the rest the
water so you see here it's really lumpy
in there you don't want to be lumpy like
that so what you going to do get you a
strainer get another container to pour
it into take your coat
dump it through the strainer here you're
gonna have to push that stuff through
the strainer
now what it's going to do is all build
up on the bottom there
that's okay you just wipe it off the
reason it's important to get all this
powder you see all that stuff it's not
mixing in the water all that's the
nutrients the baby needs it makes the
milk thicker so if you don't get all
this stuff in there in the milk is
really thin those babies are gonna have
diarrhea and they might wind up getting
sick and dying on you now you got on the
side of the milk container here just
scoop it down there and mix it in now
you really want to take this and let it
sit let it cool down let it sit in the
frigerator for a couple hours
give that formula time to mix together
well now we're gonna take them they'll
put it refrigerator and we're gonna let
it cool off set it in there let it cool
down now when you store your milk in the
refrigerator you're gonna put it in
something in the top on this is just a
small baby container if you just have
one squirrel this will be fine you can
just put the milk in here it's got a
little lid on it a little screw lid of
course if you have four Scrolls like I
do your need a bigger container put in
their store and then whenever you're
ready to be them you take it out and
warm some up so now we have our milk
cooled down we don't want to warm this
whole entire container of you you want
the milk to be warm when you feed the
babies a lot of times if it's cold they
may not eat it anyway if you keep
warming all this milk up and cooling it
down you might spoil the milk so we just
want to warm up a little bit we're going
to take a shot glass here we're gonna
pour just enough milk and there to feed
these babies
we're gonna put it in the microwave for
probably about three seconds this really
all it takes three four seconds so we'll
put it in for four seconds I take it out
maybe we'll do the test stick your
finger in it see how hot it is if it's
hot enough to burn your finger it's too
hot and you let it cool down but once it
does cool down it's just kind of worn
can get you a syringe now pick this up
from the local drug store now it's
really best if you can get a feed nipple
to go on the end of these you might bill
if I'm those in the Pistor pending on
the size once again depends on how much
you're gonna feed them of the chart
below we'll have all that information in
but these be in about three weeks over
you need anywhere from four to five and
a half cc's depending on how big the
baby is a good rule of thumb is you can
watch their bellies you feed them kind
of slow I'm you can see the belly start
to swell definitely don't want to
overfeed they'll keep eating a lot of
times if they have an in in a wall
they'll eat too much and then it can one
up killed a few other few right now our
milk has cooled down it's probably about
the same temperature as my finger now
which my body temperature is 98 degrees
put about four cc's in here start with
now these babies have an 8 in a wall
whenever they eat they're gonna try to
suck that milk down if you're not
careful they can inhale the milk and
you'll see it come out there knows if
that happens you want to stop and you
want to clean it up with a wet paper
towel that's bad you don't want that
happen if you don't have a feed nipple
that feed nipple is gonna keep them from
inhaling the milk but this is just a
syringe so you don't want to let him get
the whole entire syringe in his mouth
like this because if you do he can suck
that nil out of the syringe and you'll
see it coming back guys notice you won't
just kind of hold him firmly and you
want to put barely the tip of it up to
his mouth and press down on it very
slowly if you press too fast it's gonna
push that milk down his throat and then
that milk is gonna come out notice they
can get a respiratory infection
it can cause to a lot of other problems
but you want to make sure you feed it
very slowly to keep that from happen
so you just press down on it I like to
hold my finger on the syringe right here
and then press down on the back of it
because if you don't hold your finger on
it and apply pressure on that syringe a
lot of times they can actually sew and
they'll suck that syringe down and then
once again if the milk will come out of
their nose it also helps if you hold
them at a horizontal angle like this if
you hold it up like this is there bad
about getting the milk down in their
lungs that come out their nose too and
just take your time being really slow
okay
once you've fed Eve enough you just put
it back in with the brothers and this
sage the babies can use the bathroom on
their own but before this sage before
they start getting for our own about one
to two weeks anything before that you're
gonna have to promote them to use the
bathroom so really the best thing to do
is eat you a cotton ball I don't have
one right now that's just the paper
towel so what you can do you wet it you
wet it with warm water and you just
tickle their genitals and they will use
the bathroom because what the mother
does that their muscles have not
developed yet for them to be able to use
the bathroom on their own so the mother
actually licks their genitals to promote
them going to the bathroom now that's
very important if the babies are very
small if they're smaller and they don't
have your home it's very important to
promote them to use the bathroom or else
that that will cause them to die because
all the food will build up in them
you'll notice in the cage you can see in
the cage if they're using the bathroom
or not whatever you have them in you'll
see pellets or you'll see diarrhea in
there if they're not using the bathroom
that's the sign for concern so that's
pretty much everything you need to know
about taking care of a baby squirrel and
feeding them at this age you want to
feed them every three hours probably
bout six times a day and order they get
the less you can feed them and then you
can start putting little wood blocks in
there for the two home and once their
eyes open you can start weaning them off
the milk once
the link will be below on all of the
details on how to do this stuff and if
you have any questions you know feel
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