No-LimitR
58 posts
Jul 17, 2007
1:46 PM
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How many of you men out there have had rollers get hurt during a bop attack and had the roller go back to normal as it was before the attack? Depending on how torn up the bird is what are it's percentages of ever going back to normal regarding performance? I would like some feedback in order to determine if my injured birds should be cull or not. Tou
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Missouri-Flyer
752 posts
Jul 17, 2007
1:50 PM
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I haven't had but a few hand full of attacks, but I have NEVER had a bird, that was actually hit, survive, that turned out to be worth feeding. I have 1 in there now that was hit 3-22-07 at 8:54am that looked fine for 2 days, then it's left wing came up lame, in the spot the hawk grabbed it..I keep it with each round of squeeks that go into the kitbox to teach them where the feed and water are.
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Jerry
Home of "Whispering Wings Loft"
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W@yne
569 posts
Jul 17, 2007
2:14 PM
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Ive only ever got 1 bird back with a torn up crop that i fixed. The bird when healed was never the same bird as before not wanting to kit and fly with the other birds seemed to fly nervously . It ended up a cull.
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Regards
W@yne UK
Patience Perseverance Perfection
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
1454 posts
Jul 17, 2007
3:31 PM
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My experience has been that usually if they aren't hurt to the point they can't fly right again, they are fine if they heal properly. I've had birds come home that were sliced up from their crop to their ass, entire breast meat showing..that eventually healed up fine and didn't act any different in the kit. You have to remember that a bird needs time to heal, and just because it might "look" okay, doesn't mean that is completely healed, there by making it probably not act completely right in the air. They might be "spooky" when they see something when flying, but otherwise they should be okay as long as they are physically functioning as they were before. The state of mind will be something you'll just have to figure out, every bird will be a little different in that regard.
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belle
285 posts
Jul 17, 2007
7:15 PM
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I had a bird lose a lot of feathers once, but any thing that had blood died in about 10 mins
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Justin
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wafer kits
16 posts
Jul 17, 2007
11:18 PM
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TOU;
I have a young bird in my portable kit wih only one leg. I think a hawk got her a few months ago and one leg was doubled up under her but she flew every day and ate well. Eventually the leg atrophied and dropped off. Al
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No-LimitR
59 posts
Jul 18, 2007
1:28 PM
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Thankyou guys. There is this falcon that just sits and waits for the realease of my rollers. I haven't been able to fly for a week now. It has injured two of them and got one so far. I finally flew this morning but had to check the air with 4 of my rollers first before I release the whole kit. everything went well but when they trapped, I saw that falcon circling overhead, boy was i glad they had already trapped. Tou.
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