Crazy Bird Fever Scare
Posted by ellen5e in Animals on 10 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Something MUST be done!
Theres a new problem with our 10 year old male Patagonian conure. He has always been a very good and healthy boy, but I went to pick him up a couple of days ago and his right foot had some red at the ankle. I thought it was blood from maybe a pulled blood feather, cleaned...
Feeding Time
Here some video of caring for the babies.
and here’s another video
Bath Time
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Originally uploaded by Ellen5e
After feeding it is bath time; messaging clean and then down belly and to the tail to help newborns learn to eliminate after eating and outside of the sleeping area.
Plus by noticing their elimination, I can tell if they are digesting well. That and their...
Time to Eat
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Originally uploaded by Ellen5e
Though not the softest of nipples, the monoject helps me deliver the formula (condensed milk, goats milk, clover honey and soluble vitamins). I am very careful to not depress the plunger too fast so as to prevent aspiration.
I learned that bunnies of this...
Tiny Tennants
Posted by ellen5e in Animals, Events, Family, Home, Life, Nature, Personal Experience on 08 22nd, 2008 | No Comments
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Originally uploaded by Ellen5e
This is the second day of caring for the newborn orphan cottontails.
Their 3 older siblings were killed when the nest was destroyed by either our terrier or the neighbor’s cat. Mother bunny didn’t pick a very good spot for them.
They still...
The Lame Lamb
Posted by ellen5e in Animals, Biblical, Christian, Life, Ministry, Nature, Ponderings, Spirit, UBCafe on 02 18th, 2008 | No Comments
I would like to tell you of a shepherding practice that is used when a lamb continues to wander away from the flock. In order for the lamb that keeps wandering away to learn to stay with the flock, the shepherd uses his staff and actually breaks one of legs of the lamb. Then he splints the leg and...