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KenjiQuacker
Songster
Ive volunteered at 3 different wildlife rehabilitation centers for 2 years now, hand raised 6 different baby birds, built an aviary, gotten a job to pay for my animals, and I'm planning on getting a cage for each starling, taking them to the avian vet that's only 10 minutes from here once they're old enough to go to the vet, I have plenty of space in my aviary, and I've been researching for 6 months on their care, diet, and health problems. Thank you for making sure I'm ready though.Contact a fish and game officer before you go ahead with something like this. You have to think about the future as well. What is your capacity for birds? What happens after you have several adult birds? What do you plan to do if you end up with several males or several females (which may fight)? Can you afford avian vet care in the event they become ill? Are you experienced with tube feeding in the event a baby won't eat? Are you experienced and willing to feed an accurate diet, close to what they would eat in the wild? I'm not trying to put you down, but when you take wild animals into your care it goes much farther then just taking them out of their environment (invasive or not) and raising them. You really need to think about what happens once they're grown.