The best feeding tool for baby squirrel is a 1cc syringe.
Baby squirrel milk feeder.
For each of the next feedings make the formula more concentrated by adding less water until you are mixing the formula at 1 part formula powder to 2 parts water.
Before feeding make sure the baby squirrel is warm.
Mix in all the lumps and use a strainer if you need to.
Baby should feel warm in your hands.
Never feed baby squirrels cow s milk fruit juice tang sunny d or any other sweet drink.
Baby squirrels need pedialyte and puppy milk to grow.
If the baby squirrel doesn t require rehydration you can move straight to providing this formula.
A baby squirrel less than 5 weeks old will need to be stimulated to poop and pee.
Or once you ve completed the process of rehydrating the squirrel you ll also shift to this formula.
Baby squirrels cannot digest food when cold.
Steps of hydration are listed below in faq.
The fox squirrel is a large tree squirrel with a light blonde to dark red underbelly and a brownish greyish upper body.
At six weeks baby squirrels can eat seeds nuts and fruit.
Never attempt to feed a cold baby.
There are also black and blonde color phases of fox squirrels.
They have lighter colored fur around their eyes.
When feeding the baby squirrel you will need to be very careful.
Use one part powder and four parts of water and mix what you will use at one feeding.
This recipe uses eggs to boost the proportion of these two nutrients in cow milk to the correct amount but any other source of fat and protein can be substituted if you prefer be aware that this easy squirrel milk recipe contains almost 3 times as much sugar as regular squirrel milk.
At three weeks they start developing teeth.
You can feed a baby squirrel with a bottle and it will bond to you as its mother you have to keep baby squirrels warm and massage their genitals to make them pee.
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Do not allow the baby to eat more than the recommended amount or frequency.
Squirrel milk is rich in fat and protein.
Use a warm wet cotton ball q tip the corner of a kleenex or your finger and flick lightly across the genital area.
Some babies may need stimulation before and after feeding.
At four weeks they open their eyes.
The steps of feeding are rehydrate baby first using homemade fluid then feed baby using pedialyte homemade milk replacers and then squirrel milk replacers.
Feeding a cold baby will kill it because it cannot digest the formula when cold.
So you feed 2 5 cc s per feeding potty time.
