"Fed up"

A video of Sarabi being hand fed at the age of 3,5 months.
She is fed with a mushed up and heated (luke warm) "banana mash."
After bringing Sarabi home as a baby I was advised to hand feed her, like in the video, approximately twice a day, once with the "banana mash" and once with a special CAG baby formula (mixed with luke warm water). This is a way for the baby chick and the new owner to "tie a bond." At such a young age the baby will later think of the feeder as a sort of "mom" and will be extra loving toward this specific human. Sarabi, unlike some hand reared baby CAG's, stayed with her real parents until the age of 7 weeks before she was hand reared by the breeder. The time that the chick gets to stay with the "real parents" seems to differ greatly between different breeders - everything from hand rearing the first day of hatching to after 7 weeks or more!