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| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:46:44
... I have two collared dove chicks in my airing cupboard.
Forced to fledge by the prescense of a predator, crow, nasty bugger. Not ready yet, no wing muscles whatsoever, so we fone wiltshire wildlife rescue and they told us to try and get em back im the nest, but we couldnt even see it, let alone get em back in it.
They just fell out the tree bless em a parent fell down first though, doing the whole 'I've got a broken wing so eat me instead thing', one's got an injury theres also loadsa rats in the pub garden so they more than likely would have got got by one, they are now in a box in the airing cupboard, the wildlife dudes will fone again soon to arrange a pick up.
They are a lot more chillaxed than they were when we first bought them home.
Until today I'd never even seen a collared dove chick let alone held one 
Sorry for Babbling
Scaly |
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| kev 5 |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 18:15:36
I wouldn't worry the wildlife people deal with this a lot this time
Of year,they will have the correct food to raise them
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| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 18:14:29
one had an injury bless him, and they wouldnt have lasted two secondss with all those rats about, they're now safely on their way to wiltshire wildlife wood hospital :) |
| Georgina |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 18:13:29
Sorry scaly didn't mean to bark at you. People used to bring baby birds to us all the time, and the main reason why they died was that the people moved them x |
| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 17:18:34
Didnt realise what a contraversial topic this was, can a mod delete this please? |
| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:58:58
All Collared dove parents stop feeding chicks once outside the nest, the dudes will be pickin em up 2nite |
| Georgina |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:57:22
the parents will feed them if they are put back where you picked them up from asap. but they wont if they think they are gone, if they are too small to feed them selves then they are reliant on they parents regurging it for them and you dpnt have the means to reproduce that, and you cant buy it freely at pet stores and you would have to get it in bulk and by the time you get it it will be too late. |
| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:54:00
no offence or anything but i think we're gonna go with what the dudes are saying, learnt today that once the chicks are on the ground the parents wont feed them at all, and these littleuns arent able to do it themselves atm xx they've made nice progress since we bought them home |
| Georgina |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:51:48
tis for the best x |
| ScalySituation |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:49:25
This is what the wildlife dudes said to do x |
| Georgina |
Posted - 19/04/2012 : 16:48:29
the best thing to do is to put them back where they were, they have a better chance x |
