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Quote: You don't have to hand feed by injecting food with a syringe into the crop. If you offer mushy (but not liquid) food that can be grasped with tweezers or fed with a toothpick and presented for the baby finches to grab themselves, there will be little danger of them choking. If you do...

Quote: I'd recommend waiting until the babies have their eyes just beginning to open, and feeding moistened little globs of food with tweezers or a toothpick, as opposed to using a syringe. If the nest is hung on a swing-out door, it would be easy to simply open the door, give some food to the...

I am going to depart from the advice given here and give you an answer that's from "thinking outside the box." If you want to hand-feed baby finches, go ahead. However, don't remove them from the nest. Instead of raising them totally by yourself, try supplemental hand-feeding. Keep the...