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The babies have gotten hella fat.
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A little wren was hiding out in my garage from the cold weather and flew into my house when I opened the door. I spent the next several minutes trying to figure out how to get him out before he flew head first into a window and fell like 20 feet onto a cold floor tile. He was twitching and breathing heavily so I gently placed him in a cardboard box and lightly closed up the top, keeping it dark while leaving him plenty of air. Luckily he survived and flew out of the box later when I placed it outside.
 
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FierceBrosnan said:
Quail Update: After a few days I've got 8 babies. Had to perform a rescue on one that couldn't quite hatch and that little guy went from curled feets and super runty to normal feets and he's still littler than the rest, but super active and eats a ton! Sharing some highlights and loafy nuggets. Did not know they like to stretch out so much.

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And I see that Helpful Conure is trying to be Helpful. I have a friend with a Cockatoo that is currently being an excellent alloparent to baby chickens. It's a lot of work. If my mated IRNs ever produced fertile eggs, I'd be sending them to our local parrot rescue. I'm way too diurnal for the 24 hour care that would be necessary. Hats off to you, Fierce.
 
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Chicken In A Pot said:
And I see that Helpful Conure is trying to be Helpful. I have a friend with a Cockatoo that is currently being an excellent alloparent to baby chickens. It's a lot of work. If my mated IRNs ever produced fertile eggs, I'd be sending them to our local parrot rescue. I'm way too diurnal for the 24 hour care that would be necessary. Hats off to you, Fierce.
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Chickens are way more work than quails too. The first 6 days are the hardest after hatching and then they're just fat fluff balls that live only to eat. Have them in a little enclosure fornnow since they're only 3 weeks old and gonna build them a hutch in the next week or so. My conure really is a good aunt to them only one of the quails doesn't much care for her and pecks her toes if she gets on their cage. I've named him Gremlin and he is more dinner roll than birb.
 
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I think it's fascinating how well parrots are able to communicate with/understand us. Like, I've one that used to land near the sink and bob his head towards the faucet to ask for cool water. If you bob your head up and down some species will mimic that, or even if you hold your arms out rigidly and move them about a parrot can make a similar movememnts with its wings.

In one instance, my parrot at the time even trained *me* to cover his cage in the evening when he made a particular kind of sound, which would always be followed by a soft noise after I'd covered it.
 
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round robin said:
A little wren was hiding out in my garage from the cold weather and flew into my house when I opened the door. I spent the next several minutes trying to figure out how to get him out before he flew head first into a window and fell like 20 feet onto a cold floor tile. He was twitching and breathing heavily so I gently placed him in a cardboard box and lightly closed up the top, keeping it dark while leaving him plenty of air. Luckily he survived and flew out of the box later when I placed it outside.
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A couple of years ago, I was awakened by the sound of a Mourning Dove crashing into my window. I rushed outside, gently placed the dove into a box full of rags and paper towels so a local cat wouldn't maul him, and hoped he would recover. My ex's daughter saw what I was doing and I asked her not to tell her little brother, in case things went bad. I sat with the poor dove all day long, hoping that my presence as a hideous, featherless colossus would calm him down. I doubt it did.

He died about 10 hours later, despite my childlike attempt to offer him food and water. He never flew again. I buried him before anyone else noticed and to this day I hate myself for not doing more. The only benefit is that, before that day, I'd never seen a dove's pupils, and they're just as beautiful as you'd imagine.
 
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