On Sat, 22 May 2010 20:02:26 -0400, "
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The Daring Dufas wrote:
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hr(bob) wrote:
I just found a baby bird in our driveway under a couple of trees that
have nests in them. Bird can walk - sort of - and tries to fly but
can't. What should I do? Any ideas on food to set out or water???

When we found a baby bird, our vet told me to put some fish cat food
in a blender with a little water. Feed the soupy stuff to the bird
with an eye dropper. This was a tiny bird, just beginning to get
feathers. Didn't survive. Another time, we had two ducklings. Fed
same stuff, one survived, one didn't. The survivor was not accepted
by other ducks in large flock, and he thought my husband and I were
his parents.

Let me guess, the duck walked around screaming AFLAK!

TDD

No, but it was pretty wierd ) Raising a duck indoors is not something
I recommend. They poop every 4 minutes. Our schnauzer helped supervise
the duck...used to round it up if it began wandering. Took schnauzer to
be groomed one day and he came home with the usual bandanna around his
neck and went straight to his food bowl. Schnauzer standing in the
kitchen munching his dog chow and the duck started walking back and
forth under the dog's belly. Schnauzer still intent on dinner, duck
starts picking chow crumbs from the dog's whiskers. I was too
fascinated to stop the silly duck. After cleaning the dog's whiskers,
the duck apparently thought he had earned some dog chows, too, so he
grabbed one from the dog bowl. Wrong move...the dog barked him away and
I grabbed the duck because the dog chow was halfway down his skinny neck
(like the birds in Bugs Bunny cartoons)...just squeezed his neck to push
the chow back up and out.

As soon as we got the pair of ducks, we put a mirror in their box so
they would know they were ducks but that didn't work...the surviving
duck followed my husband and I like he was trained to do so ) When it
came time he was almost ready to fly, we took him down to the lake where
there were large flocks. Turned him loose, but as soon as he approached
any of the groups of ducks, they took off for the water and he ran back
to us. Tried that a few times, with same result. When last seen, he
was put in his box for the night in the back yard...he either flew away
or became a cat snack. Probably the latter, but no signs of his demise
were found.

The schnauzer had killed a house mouse when he was only 6 mos old, but
never threatened other animals. Kids brought a baby bunny into the
house one evening...three kids and a dog in the bedroom, door closed.
When it was too quiet for too long...couple of hours?...I went to
investigate. They were all playing with the rabbit.

It was pretty funny to watch him with a tiny baby garter snake. He
would crouch down and approach and the goofy garter snake coiled up like
a cobra ready to strike. Dog barked like mad and backed away. That
went on for several minutes until the dog lost interest and the snake
crawled away.

Interesting stories. I used to think that when we could talk to
chimpanzees, they would tell us what the other animals were thinking.
Oh, well.