Help! Mama degu died leaving 3 new babies..

Do I hand feed them like I would a baby chinchilla? Daddy is keeping them warm but I will have to feed them Poor mama, she just had the babies in the night and died a little while ago. I would really really appreciate any tips anyone can give on hand feeding these babies. TIA

[Catherine]

I remember someone else on another board had this problem and they were referred to this article....http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jean.wr...es/rearing.htm

Hope it helps. Good Luck

Catherine

Thanks Catherine....I am feeding them goat's milk and will do this every 2 hours for the first few days and then go to every 3 or 4 hours. *Fingers crossed*

[Runt]

I hope things work out for you Leah.

Well, everything seemed fine until 2 this morning. When I got up to feed them the runt male was just laying lifeless, he died in my hands a few minutes later. The other two were both fine at 4 and at 6 but when I just went to feed them at 7:30 the other little male was just like the way I found the runt in the night The little girl seems perfectly fine, for now.

[Jade]

I'm sorry for your loss, Leah. I'll keep the little female in my thoughts.

Thanks Jade. She still seems to be doing fine. I have no idea what happened to the boys

Ok, here's my baby This pic was taken about 3 days ago. It's her and her daddy.

And here's a couple from yesterday.

One more

[Jade]

She's adorable!

Psst. You can attach up to 5 pics per post.

Thanks Haha yeah, I see that now. I wasn't sure how your picture posting worked. I see it's like on CnQ. At EPH it use to be if we posted more then 1 in a post it would show a clickable link instead of the pic. Not sure how it does now that we've upgraded though.

[Deja]

Oh goodness, how tiny and adorable!
Good luck with her, I'm so sorry about the boys.

[Sigaru]

Oh, my. I'm sorry about that(is it safe to keep them with daddy anyways? dont some animal fathers eat their young? altho it sounds like he's doing well with them). I dont know much about degu. but the little girl is so cute! and so is her daddy! I hope she does ok

BTW--she looks somewhat like a baby squirrel

[indychinchick]

Those pictures are adorable! Especially the one of the daddy and the little one. Sorry to hear about the two little boys. I had never seen baby degus before! How cute!