I have several times over the years, there actually a relative of the myna bird and from my experience they pick up speaking fairly easily way faster then any parrot I’ve ever had, the only bird that did so easier was the crow I raised, in both cases I did start with them before their eyes opened so that might make a difference

They also learned trick and things very easily recognized patterns and learned to take advantage of them

I trapped Starlings for bait birds for banding Hawks. I fed them 26% turkey starter and give them LOTS of water. They love water.

What did you feed them and how often? We have been feeding supper worms
Large meal worm looking things. I pinch the heads off sho they dont bit on the way down.( dont absent mindedly rub your eyes after this, apparently the bug juice im my eye im allergic to.) She also is feeding some softened cat food, and I collected some pill bugs as well today. I feed about everything 3 hours . 2 supper worms at a time severalntimes and 5 pill bugs once.
Sounds like this will be an interesting and fun project

Ron fed mostly cat food.

Kaytee makes a bunch of formulations to feed all sorts of birds. For starlings you would want a softbill feed.

I sell a lot of baby pigeons to people who want to hand raise them, 2 different people in just the last few days. Most of them use Kaytee.

Keith

.17 hmr makes a mess of them, fun to shoot.

All the 3 that were keep in a bird cage out in the grage didnt make it to were dead yesterday and tha last one was dead this morning. Im thinking maybe a cat got after thwm and the slamed into the cage killing themselves but have no idea. . The most taime one sh has keep inside i just got done feeding . Gave him 2 of the big worm things like meal worms but larger. 5 pill bugs and one piece of cat food I diped in water . I dont want to over feed him but dont want to under feed him either. I have been feeding at 10 ,2 and 6 may not be often enough?

There is also cat food in the cage but it seems to only understand being fewd not picking things up off the ground yet. I almost got a picture of it on my head but it flew off before it took.

I saw it had splashe around in the water a day or so ago but have not seen it drink on its own yet so work about it getinfd moisture if only finding dry cat food and why I wet the piece I feed it down

I should mention that you can also feed your starling berries like mulberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries and blackberries. They eat a lot of fruit.

They have a crop, like a lot of bird species. It's not as large as on a pigeon or chicken. When you lightly squeeze it, the crop should feel fairly full and soft. Too full can be bad. Overly dry and hard can be deadly, because they can't digest the food. If the crop is hard, giving water will soften it. With baby pigeons, which is what I have a lot of experience with, the trachea sticks up around the hole. If you hit that with water, the squab will usually quickly die, or at least have bad respiratory issues. I would guess the same is true for starlings.

Pigeons and their squabs can suck water. Most birds can't. Starlings are one of the few other birds that can also suck water. Usually if you dip a pigeon squab's beak in water it will suck it up and drink. I would guess that baby starlings would do the same. Keep the nostrils out of the water, if you try it.

Keith

Canned cat food was the main food source along with any left over berries or bugs that we had easy access to