I think Momnoah would have the most experience out of us raising teil babies.  You are doing great already.  I think the only addition I'd make is to scrape some cuttlebone crushed eggshells for mamma to rebuild her calcium level.  I'll keep my fingers crossed that this baby will do fine with the parents.  Congrats grannie!  Have fun with them. 

Congratulations on the new baby tiel!  I wondered about the parents feeding the baby seeds, but my baby tiels have always done fine with seeds and pellets.  They always have a cuttlebone and mineral cake as well.  I gave up trying to get them to eat good things like veggies and fruits.  As long as the baby seems to be fed, I would leave him/her with the parents.  The first clutch my parent birds had just one baby, and I think leaving him with them was a good thing.  Be prepared though, once tiels figure out how to be parents, they often keep trying to have more and more.  I started with a pair and now have 15 of them.  All were parent raised, except one.  In that clutch she was the last hatched of six, and everyone was so much bigger that I feared she would starve, so I hand fed her, and then removed her brother a couple weeks later to keep her company.  It is so interesting to watch them grow larger, day by day, and begin the get feathers and open their eyes.  If you have a camera, taking pictures each day is an interesting way to document the changes.  It is amazing how different they look by the time they are three weeks old!  Good luck with the baby!  Kathy 

When I bred the Gouldians, they fed seeds and the babies thrived. They look whole when you see them in the crop but they have been hulled before the parents feed the baby. I fed egg food to the parents. CeDe was the one I used but you can make it out of hard boiled eggs, using the yolks and very finely crushed cooked eggshells. Mash it well and add some dried herbs to add a bit of betacarotene for Vitamin A.

Let them feed seeds or the usual veggies and all will be well.

Annie