Oh the poor thing - my rescue beardie had to be syringe fed also - she couldnt walk or move due to malnutrition - syringe fed as well as hand fed her small dubai roaches with a tweezers, I literally shoved them between her lips until she opened her mouth. She would chew them no problem, but the getting them in was me opening her mouth very gently and putting them in.
Nona used to"bite at the air" also - it was because thats all she new about eating was the syringe feeding, that all she understood. Hopefully she'll stop doing that once she feels better.
Rephashy wasn't available at the time for us, but if she's more accustomed to syringe and still not picking up eating on her own, hopefully it will come eventually, but I would, to get food in her, either use the Rephashy and syringe feed her or make what I created for Nona and she seemed to like it and get good nutrition her.
Fluckers crafted cuisine soft pellets, organic baby food (green beans, squash, peas, chicken, apple, banana)
Mush up the pellets add the baby food in there as flavoring and nutrition, small amounts obviously - add also any meds, calcium, vitamins
I syringe fed Nona about 4 times a day. after 2 weeks of doing this, we started with the live feeders - tiny superworms, calci worms and tiny dubais that I would literally push into her mouth, I did the same when she started to switch over to solid veggies, cut very small and would put right to her mouth. When she was fisnished being fed - she would squirm a certain way and try to move away.
I have video on our "technique" - but I don't know how to download on here.... any suggestions on how to download video??