Recent content by Qwerty3159

How’s he doing today?

I highly doubt that, seeing as the licensed part of licensed wildlife official we keep denoting to indicates a person who is educated and experienced, not someone asking for help online. Respectfully to OP, if they are as “expert” as everyone else they would foremost understand that what they...

Nobody is judging or bullying you, we are outright pleading with you to give up your own selfish reasons for wanting to raise a baby songbird and to give it over to licensed officials.

Are you a veterinarian? I’m surprised a deer was hit by a car and incapacitated yet survived at all. Broken leg, internal bleeding, brain injury, etc are all real common with vehicle collisions. I’m sure there’s a reason they euthanized even though it “looked fine” to you. The dichotomy between...

What a strange and baseless assumption to make.

I have no idea, I’m sorry you’re going through the ringer with this little one. As for the bloody toe, the cornstarch remedy is the correct treatment. Did the bleeding stop?

@cavemanrich you were right! His legs totally caught up. He’s running around today

Those are all traits I like about pigeons too! Most pigeons handle well if they aren’t terrified of you. They don’t usually enjoy it but they easily learn to tolerate proper handling.

Some improvement today - his feet aren’t so far forward when he’s on his haunches and he’s standing up intermittently and better than yesterday. I made him chase the seeds around for a bit and walk around. I did decide to go ahead and dust with some calcium powder. His bones in his toes...

I think you’re in the clear then, that’s just air moving over a bit of fluid in the syrinx. Not really anything to worry too much about unless accompanied by other breathing difficulties, which you described as happening before the clicking noise. I think the squab is okay and needs the human...

Do you know their ages? They could just be too young. I’ve had young pairs that go through all the motions of courting and nest building but it took a while for any eggs to be laid.

Unfortunately that is very common with cat-caught animals, in addition to almost guaranteed infection even from small, easily missed wounds, the stress alone often kills vulnerable small mammals and birds. Thanks for trying to do the right thing!

No wildlife rehab in the area? They are trained and experienced and will be able to do a better job than any of us on here.

That’s a good clean up crew! The only birds I keep at the moment are pigeons so I had to do away with wire floor coops, the wasted seed was just attracting way too many rodents. I didn’t mind the chipmunks and squirrels that habituated themselves to come running when they heard me feeding the...

Very wet droppings today from the squab, not nice lumps as the day before. I think I let him have a little tooo much water yesterday. Thursday night when I brought the squab in his legs weren’t great, but he could definitely walk and even scurry around on the floor, at least when he was frantic...