Is their a special reason why you wish to handfeed them? In my view, it is always best to allow parents to feed their young, because like human breast milk for babies, the bird seed that parents regurgitate to the babies have special enzymes and other nutrients in it, that really help the babies to grow fast, be healthy and thrive.
Handfeeding is no easy task either. The food has to be given a certain way, the babies can aspirate food into their lungs and die, and removing them from the nest, where they are kept warm all of the time, and then taking them out of nest, can chill them and also cause death.
If it were me, I would allow parents to feed them, and then, in a few weeks, take one at a time, and spend some time socializing them, getting them used to your hands.
Babies that are handfed, can become very needy, and dependent upon the human touch, which sometimes causes them separation anxiety.
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