Bird Dance

[den]

Foreign Parrot removed from flight aviary and moved to medium cage.

Peewee with no flight feathers moved from medium cage into hospital cage #1.

Concussed adult crested pigeon moved from hospital cage to flight aviary for pre-release care.

1 baby pigeon moved from hospital cage to flight aviary for pigeon training and pre-release care.

1 baby pigeon left in hospital cage #2 for more care.

1 concussed kookaburra left when he was because "I ain't goin nowhere, mate. Now piss off and bring me a mousicle."

1 bandaid used to cover kookaburra bite on finger.

Savlon used on peewee claw holes in hand.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Kookaburras have awfully big beaks... How deep/big a bite did it leave?

Ouch.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's surprisingly small, considering the beak. about 5mm long and deep enough to bleed but nothing serious.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Nobody goes anywhere until the kookaburra laughs!:D
Hope your finger is better soon!
What kind of foreign parrot is that?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Indian ringneck. He's been a pet for quite a few years.

[frith]

Good thing about fawns is they don't bite. 8-)

Thursday I crated and moved 5 lemurs and two porcupines. I didn't get bitten, scratched or pricked once. *takes a bow*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

how do you do that? I only have to look at something and I end up with holes and bleeding.

Was that a rhetorical question? Oh well...

[frith]

Well, for the North American porcupines I use a large garbage can with a locking lid (same can I use for medium large snakes). A "skykennel" is NOT a good choice for prickle-pigs. It's a pain to push them into a skykennel and it's a long wait until they walk back out the door upon arrival. A garbage can is a breeze. The best is to trap them with the can while they are waddling along the ground, like a bug under a drinking glass. Then I slowly tilt the can while sliding the lid into place, the porcupine walks into the can as it goes horizontal. Put the can right-side up, clip the lid shut, and off you go. The lid has breathing holes. At destination, there is no "I don' wanna leave!" If the porcupine doesn't want to go out under it's own power, just pour it out -- there's nothing to hold on to in a garbage can. Good luck trying to pour a porcupine out of a skykennel.

With the ring-tailed lemurs, I coaxed them into a small holding room (I opened the door, and for those slow to go through the door on their own, I waggled my net). This time I used a skykennel. Skykennel on the ground, parallel to the wall, door wide open. Next, with much persuasive net waggling, two of us slowly encouraged the lemur to climb down to the floor where each then walked into the skykennel on his own. The last lemur was the hardest to convince to climb down. He had real good grip on the wire mesh wall and he proved that just netting him and pulling him down would have been arduous and painful. Eventually he climbed down to the ground too and walked into the skykennel. I bet that the fact we'd left a door-less skykennel in their winter quarters for months helped a lot.

[frith]

Oops, that was four lemurs, not five. My co-worker had succeeded in coaxing two lemurs into the skykennel with banana bits before the others realized that something fishy was afoot. We have a total of six ring-tailed lemurs.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

... and a partridge in a pear tree?