Toto refuses to swallow food

[Totopapa]

My alexandrine which is now roughly 2 months old is now just starting to fly (each time with a tragic landing), since a few days he refuses to eat his hand feed formula, nor does he swallow soaked pulses if i try to push em individually in his throat its very painfull sight for me as he makes those choking gesture and it frightens me so i stopped. I then tried to minse a custom mix at home including rice, bajra, jawar, chana, corns and fed him mixing it with some fine bajra flour heating it a little as he hates cold food which he ate for a few times and now again he refuses and today i had to minse apple and force feed him with a feeding syringe of which he again tried to protest by throwing some out.. I and truely worried. HELP

Ps. Forgot to mention he doesn't wean on his own all i have noticed is that he just chews and drops away whatever is given

[Pajarita]

Well, this is a poached bird (which, by they way, it's illegal in your country because poachers are driving the species into extinction) so it's used to being fed by its parents and not humans but, aside from that, it could be sick. Fungal crop infections are very common in poached baby birds because the greatest majority of people who get them are not bird lovers and really have no idea how to feed properly - PLUS these are birds that have been seriously traumatized (which depresses their already weak immune system (all babies have weak immune systems). I suggest you try to find an avian vet to get some antibiotics and antifungal medicine but being that the bird is illegal you might have a problem there.

In the meantime, keep it super warm and quiet (he needs to be kept in the dark in something like a little nest and with a source of heat -like a heating pad). Palpate its crop to see if it's soft or hard (hard is real bad!). Are you feeding at the right temperature (from beginning to end, not just warm at the beginning and cold at the end)? The right consistency? Handfeeding is not easy to do, it requires not only fresh food every time (you can't save it from one to the next), the exact temperature and consistency (which changes as the bird gets bigger) and feeding almost continuously during the day (because if you allow it to go hungry for too long, it won't eat) while allowing the crop to empty completely once a day (or the bird will end up with sour crop).

Insist with the hand-feeding formula (he is way too young to start eating else) but mix it with fruit or veggie puree (baby bird commercial formulas have way too much protein for a psittacula) -something yellow or orange (like butternut squash, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, etc) and always try to elicit a feeding response (do try your best NOT to force-feed, it's terribly traumatizing to a baby bird and highly counterproductive). If the baby does not ask for food, there is something wrong.

Personally, I urge you very strongly to take the baby to a sanctuary where he can be looked after properly - there is an organization in India that takes in the birds the police find with poachers, they take care of them, rehabilitate them and release them back into the wild - I forget the name now but the Forest Dept can tell you.

[Totopapa]

Baby toto ate last night, turned out the food wasn't warm enough for his liking(it's also getting colder where I live).. when i constantly warmed it up he bobbed his head in affirmative and gulped the food nicely.
My toto has also successfully landed with a good flight yesterday.

[Pajarita]

Watch him carefully because cold formula gives them sour crop which can kill if it goes untreated.