Magpie

[den]

I have another Magpie chick.

This one is a juvenile, mostly feathered and really grumpy about being handled. If I can get him to eat he'll have a good chance. At the moment I have to force-feed him. This is done by having holes pecked into my hands as I wrap him in a towel until only his head is poking out, then, while he swears and snaps at my fingers, I try to drop balls of food down his throat.

The most successful method is to shove my whole finger into his beak, then sneak the food into the side of the open beak below my finger. He doesn't like it much. I hope he works out that I'm a friend. That shouldn't take too many days.

I hope.

Comments

[cynicaloptimist.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'll workout that he likes the taste of battyfinger?

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Owiee....those magpies are fiesty! It does sound like this one might have more will to live than the other. Let's hope you get a good release on this one.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Magpie food (http://www.geographile.com/mary/visual/fingershalloween-med.jpg).

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Has he done the 'You're not my mum!' bit yet?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I hope he doesn't think fingers are food.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

marzipan fingers with almonds painted with red paste food colouring ?

I love it ;-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Almond sugar cookies, actually. :)

Life-sized!

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

Almond sugar cookies, actually. :)


ooh! that sounds good too. I'll have to google for a recipe, unless you have one handy ? [fx: big puppydog eyes]

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

She says she got it from Martha Stewart, but I wasn't able to find the recipe on her site.

To be honest, the cookies were so-so. She said she tried to make them tastier, but adjustments made the recipe too short so that they spread out and didn't look like fingers.