Currently In Care
7 June 2008 14:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denThe smallest pigeon dies during the week. It had some sort of bone disorder that caused its leg to break really easy, and it never really flew properly. I think it just gave up. The other baby and the concussed pigeon that were moved into the flight aviary were released this morning. The concussed bird was no longer concussed, and went as soon as the door was opened. The little pigeon is walking around the cage, occasionally walking into the yard to pick at seed, and doing short flight excursions to the house and back through the open door.
Peewee has been moved from the small hospital cage to the big one to give him more flapping room. The flight feathers are starting to grow on his wing.
Kookaburra is still in the same cage and it thoroughly pissed off at me. He won't eat so I have to force his beak open and slide a thawed mousicle over his tongue and into his crop, where I then have to 'tamp' it down with a finger so he has to swallow instead of spitting it out. He hates this and I'm not too keen on it either. My hands are covered with a myriad of little cuts and nicks inflicted by his sharp beak. I'm allergic to liquid antiseptics like Dettol so I have to wash with a diluted bleach solution, and it stings a bit. And then it's time for Savlon and bandaids. I'll move him into the flight cage when little pigeon has abandoned it as a night roost. The good news is that he is throwing up the occasional cast of fur and bones, therefore his digestion is working properly. The flight cage is over-run with mice looking for spilled pigeon seed, and I hope he starts to hunt them.
Peewee has been moved from the small hospital cage to the big one to give him more flapping room. The flight feathers are starting to grow on his wing.
Kookaburra is still in the same cage and it thoroughly pissed off at me. He won't eat so I have to force his beak open and slide a thawed mousicle over his tongue and into his crop, where I then have to 'tamp' it down with a finger so he has to swallow instead of spitting it out. He hates this and I'm not too keen on it either. My hands are covered with a myriad of little cuts and nicks inflicted by his sharp beak. I'm allergic to liquid antiseptics like Dettol so I have to wash with a diluted bleach solution, and it stings a bit. And then it's time for Savlon and bandaids. I'll move him into the flight cage when little pigeon has abandoned it as a night roost. The good news is that he is throwing up the occasional cast of fur and bones, therefore his digestion is working properly. The flight cage is over-run with mice looking for spilled pigeon seed, and I hope he starts to hunt them.
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Date: 7 Jun 2008 19:54 (UTC)Sounds like neither one of you look forward to meal times much. It might be his irritability that is keeping that tough ol' bird alive. You never know.......
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Date: 8 Jun 2008 00:16 (UTC)