Update: I heard back from Mizzou's Lab. I'll be sending the next death there, rather we will be driving it down when it happens. Lots cheaper that way and it is only an hour and 20 minutes from home Looks like basic Necropsy and parasite panel will be about 70 dollars if I hand deliver the bird. 120 if they do any cultures. We had a nice talk. Nice doctor. I told him about buying resistant birds and he laughed saying, yes, and by the time you find out that they are resistant they are no longer laying fertile eggs.
I feel like this right now.
Gonna go out and see my babies and enjoy them while I can.
The people that own the barn I use had a Westie killed by a raccoon several years ago, they came outside and he was floating in their little ornamental fish pond under the deck...
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A lady at work recently caught one about that size that was frozen in the parking lot at shift change, a few people chased him out of the lot but he kept going back, he was going to get run over or stepped on so she caught him and took him home.
He is eating mixed grass hay, clover, kale, grass from the yard, I gave her some alfalfa cubes for him to chew on, he's not big enough to do much to them yet, but he will eat them eventually.
thank you for the link! This little one is weaned, thankfully. Back way too many years for me to remember what exactly I did, fed, etc. I hand raised a whole litter that my huge Belgian Hare had rejected (her first brood and she was an idiot) called a vet for help and he just told me to just drown them because you can't hand raise bunnies. Yeah right. When they were big enough for me to stop bottle feeding them kitten milk replacer, I told the whole litter (minus the one freak one that didn't make it) to his office for a "visit". I couldn't resist rubbing it in just a little
My Brinsea with a towel over it makes a great "burrow" I discovered.
For someone who said mom might be near by, if that would have been possible, once we determined it wasn't hurt we would have left it be but I didn't explain well enough about where we found it. It was frozen in the actual middle of a bare 20 acre field, totally bare. it had been mowed down in the fall and nothing had started to grow yet so it was completely bare save a little moss so it was totally unnatural for it to even be out there. My only guess is something picked it up and for whatever reason dropped it. It was soaking wet and the temps were to drop below freezing again overnight so most likely it would have sat there until it froze to death. The rain is finally supposed to let up in a day or so and I will put it outside in an area thick with new grass between the house and the propane tank in a corner next to the porch that catches the afternoon sun and the big forsythia bush offers shelter from above where the other wild bunnies like to gather to snack in protection.
Off to the Wildlife Rescue center. They have folks that raise/rehabilitate quail. We have too many hawks, owls, coyotes, road runners and ground squirrels on our property for them to have any kind of a chance of survival.
(Average lifespan of a wild quail is 1.5 years; in captivity 5 years; on my property hours)
Quote: I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by everyone having illness, sickness and the Mico's poor birds. I am so sorry for your loss of Chester Micro!
I lost my Welsummer rooster a few months ago. I tried like crazy to get him well. And finally I told the the lord if I can't heal him to please take him quickly.
And the next morning he was gone.
Here's a hug for everyone!
I bought some Hibiscus seeds off of ebay and I put some in seed starter mix and some I put in a damp napkin but all were nicked. The ones I put in the napkin I put on top of my dryer
and they sprouted in 5 days 8 out of 10 while the ones I nicked and put in seed mix still have not sprouted.
Right back at you.
Can the sprouted seeds be planted and will they take successfully? Or is that strictly to determine germination?
We do the paper towel germination test for some of our grains but it's tossed after the count.
Thanks.
I am going to plant them around the yard. I just put these in some peat mix this morning so I hope they will do good.
CC I never heard of a coon drowning a dog. That is very interesting. And I knew a man that raised and trained coon dogs.
Thanks Chickadoodles. I share your grief. Chester started out to be a bit of a turd but as he matured turned into a sweetheart. He always had a tricky hock and walked a bit bowlegged. I suspected two BO cockerels ganged up on him when he was 6 months old and hurt his leg. The hens adored him and he was always gentle with them. It was weird looking up this morning and not seeing him sitting on his favorite roost spot. He was the last rooster from my original flock of chicks. All I have left are their offspring.
I feel a bit relieved having called the Mizzou diagnostic vet lab. Still waiting for a call back from them.
The hibiscus seeds....are those perennial or annual hibiscus? I planted three rose of Sharon bushes last year and one of them gave me 4 seeds. I planted them in starting soil and all four germinated and grew. Unfortunately only three survived thanks to my plant munching demon of a cat whom I love dearly but plan to pull all her teeth.....just kidding. If I did she'd just gum them to death.
I may try that with my Hyacinth vine seeds. It's so darn wet and chilly out today nothing is going to germinate till the sun comes out and warms things up a bit.
Kusanar. My husband told me that before we met he got up one morning to find a dead raccoon in front of his garage door. He called the local vet and asked him if he needed to send it anywhere to be tested. Vet said no, it was probably rabid and then told him about a state of IL study done on raccoon road kill. 70% were rabid.
Scary. Raccoons stopped being cute to me the day a sick one chased me and treed me on top of a car. It wouldn't let me come down. Animal control had to rescue me.
These Hibiscus are considered an annual in some places. I hope to keep it alive here by planting them against the house sheltered from the wind. I did nick these with tiny finger nail clippers before I put them in the damp napkin. I just got some Noble Black Muscadine seeds today that I bought off ebay. These are used to make wine as well as good eating.
I am going to try some the same way in a damp napkin on top of my dryer and the other half are in the fridg. and I will take them out in July and direct sow them and hope I get some to grow.
I will likely give some as gifts if I get more than 2. I hope I do get some out of these seeds, a couple just crumbled so I hope they are not so old that they are not viable.
I belong to the Southern Gardener FB page and a Plant Propagation page on FB and I sometimes ask them the best way to do something's or I just google it. lol
I was also very taken in my by the behavior of my Wellie rooster we called Handsome. He was so gentle we could pick him up if we needed to. He defended his girls against our dogs twice!
Chicki the only thing I can suggest on your wild bunny would be some feed and water. If it is eating and drinking it should recover quickly. But I don't know if the momma will come back looking for it. If she already tried to find it and could not she may not come back. That is something I have no experience with. Sorry. But I don't know if a 6 week old can fend for themselves either.
Off to the Wildlife Rescue center. They have folks that raise/rehabilitate quail. We have too many hawks, owls, coyotes, road runners and ground squirrels on our property for them to have any kind of a chance of survival.
(Average lifespan of a wild quail is 1.5 years; in captivity 5 years; on my property hours)
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New Mexico is an awesome state. We used to live in Roswell in 1960.... That is high desert. But it has a range of climates from Snow white sand dunes at white sands to Forest in a little town Called Cloud croft. You should do a driving trip... Visit Santa Fe and Albuquerque Lots of space between.... Predators are everywhere sorry to say.
New Mexico is an awesome state. We used to live in Roswell in 1960.... That is high desert. But it has a range of climates from Snow white sand dunes at white sands to Forest in a little town Called Cloud croft. You should do a driving trip... Visit Santa Fe and Albuquerque Lots of space between.... Predators are everywhere sorry to say.
I love New Mexico. I spent my summer break during my nurse's training on a Navaho Indian Reservation in Pruett and drove through the state twice after that, once in 2006 and once in 2007. In 2007 we stopped in Taos and thought it was one of the prettiest cities we stayed in. New Mexico and Arizona were both states that we enjoyed traveling to.
Plus we got to spend an afternoon at the NRA Whittington Center outside Raton. The place is so huge you wouldn't believe it. We put it on our short list of areas we would like to retire to....instead we settled on Missouri. Someday we would like to get back there. I remember coming out of the visitors center and there were prong horned antelope grazing about 25 feet from our van. Just beautiful creatures and a lot bigger than they look on TV.
