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Looks like a Queen Wasp
Do you know this because one of your family members kills them for a living?
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Well done for getting this far with it! Be prepared for it popping off in the night though, they usually do, especially if they have been got by a cat/dog as they carry diseases.
It looks very much like the one we hand reared a few years ago so I would guess that it is a Starling.
Definitely keep it warm, it'll be in shock and need plenty of rest, it might keep you up most of the night wanting feeding but in all likelihood it will just want to sleep.
From what we learnt with ours...
The best thing to feed it is moisened dried kitten biscuit - dog food doesn't have enough protein in it.
They need applesauce NOT sweetened
They need a small amount of calcium so give it a bit of a Tums tablet, I can't remember the amount offhand.
If it survives it will need bird vitamin spray for medium birds
Again if it survives, don't give it treats such as mealworms yet as it's junk food for birds.
We got loads of information from this website - pet European Starlings is big business in the USA so there is loads of information about it.
It *will* need feeding every two hours during the day, if you aren't able to provide that then I can suggest a rescue centre you can take it to, we took ours there when it grew up and needed to be gently introduced into the wild prior to releasing.
Click here
The website was down when I just tried to access it so here's the Google cache.
If you have any other questions I'll do my best to answer them!
It looks very much like the one we hand reared a few years ago so I would guess that it is a Starling.
Definitely keep it warm, it'll be in shock and need plenty of rest, it might keep you up most of the night wanting feeding but in all likelihood it will just want to sleep.
From what we learnt with ours...
The best thing to feed it is moisened dried kitten biscuit - dog food doesn't have enough protein in it.
They need applesauce NOT sweetened
They need a small amount of calcium so give it a bit of a Tums tablet, I can't remember the amount offhand.
If it survives it will need bird vitamin spray for medium birds
Again if it survives, don't give it treats such as mealworms yet as it's junk food for birds.
We got loads of information from this website - pet European Starlings is big business in the USA so there is loads of information about it.
It *will* need feeding every two hours during the day, if you aren't able to provide that then I can suggest a rescue centre you can take it to, we took ours there when it grew up and needed to be gently introduced into the wild prior to releasing.
Click here
The website was down when I just tried to access it so here's the Google cache.
If you have any other questions I'll do my best to answer them!
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The best advice I could give you would be to get it to a bird sanction. Unless you are truely willing to look after it properly and know how then you should pass it on as soon as you can. I imagine a baby bird that young is a lot of work. More than just feeding it and keeping it warm.
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Its dead :| Well by now it prob is
err no he found 2 dead ones and a live one
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missed that
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Ah ha, the missus has refound the best place that we got all our information from.
This should tell you the best recipie to feed the nestling (assuming it's still with you).
Click here!
This should tell you the best recipie to feed the nestling (assuming it's still with you).
Click here!
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top one is terry, other one is barry, ID'd
*grabs coat and leaves hastily*
*grabs coat and leaves hastily*
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Lets hope it turns into...
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Thebigcheese. Did you used to play tribalwars?
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Nope, I just had to Google it...looks good though, I love anything castle based!
Do I have a doppleganger?
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Well that is weird.
At least the alive one is doing alright.
At least the alive one is doing alright.
lulz
LOL! Pidgeotto attacks, it's super effective!
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Nope, I just had to Google it...looks good though, I love anything castle based!
Do I have a doppleganger?
I ask only because i ran the most powerful tribe on world 11 and the most powerful on my continent on world 4 back when i was doing gsces but I stopped for my gcses because it is MEGALY time consuming.
Anyway the name of the tribe was =TEC=, the exotic chesses and I was called the big cheese haha. That is why I asked.
Oh how I missed that game, I had 5 other massive tribes ready to go on full world war with me against the other big hitters to take over the world for us on world 4. It was a huge deal at the time, each world can easily have thousands of players. Though inevitably 1 player will control it all but that takes many years. Then I had to quit, never got to see it through.
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havent you heard?????
thebigcheese, thank you very much for that, very helpful! I shall give them a call in the morning. It's a shame that such centres are so few and far between, I'm actually 50 miles from knutsford but can't find anywhere closer! I have no intentions of trying to raise it myself, just help it along the way.
An update on the bird, it's had another feeding session where he took down a LOT more! I was dipping the meat in full fat milk to give it some more moisture and calcium, and hopefully this will be enough to get it through the night. I've got the fire on in the lounge and the dog, my gf and I are positively sweltering but the bird seems very happy, it was shivering when we first brought it in and unable to even sit up under its own steam, we actually mistook it for dead at first as it was lay flat on its stomach with its legs spread out, it was only its mouth moving that gave it away!
It's very vocal now when it wants feeding, whereas when we first got it it was completely silent, it couldnt make any noise!
It jumped out of the small box we had it in for feeding onto my GF's hand, a lot more energy!
and I took one sneaky photo a minute ago, room is nearly completely dark and it has snuggled into a bed of tissues in a big old size 13 shoe box. One quick flash burst didnt seem to disturb it:
IT's positively amazing how much stronger it appears after a bit of food, warmth and rest. It must've been very close to dying when we first picked it up.
Tom.
An update on the bird, it's had another feeding session where he took down a LOT more! I was dipping the meat in full fat milk to give it some more moisture and calcium, and hopefully this will be enough to get it through the night. I've got the fire on in the lounge and the dog, my gf and I are positively sweltering but the bird seems very happy, it was shivering when we first brought it in and unable to even sit up under its own steam, we actually mistook it for dead at first as it was lay flat on its stomach with its legs spread out, it was only its mouth moving that gave it away!
It's very vocal now when it wants feeding, whereas when we first got it it was completely silent, it couldnt make any noise!
It jumped out of the small box we had it in for feeding onto my GF's hand, a lot more energy!
and I took one sneaky photo a minute ago, room is nearly completely dark and it has snuggled into a bed of tissues in a big old size 13 shoe box. One quick flash burst didnt seem to disturb it:
IT's positively amazing how much stronger it appears after a bit of food, warmth and rest. It must've been very close to dying when we first picked it up.
Tom.