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Post by Hezz on Jan 23, 2017 21:05:32 GMT
I did see her yesterday, but no improvement. If she hangs around the house I can make sure she gets food, but apparently a bandicoot was helping itself to their seed last night.  Rats, I thought, yes, but not the banicoots.  I will have to bring in the dishes in the evening and put them back out in the morning, it seems. I even thought of mealworms for her, but the others would eat them first; she is very timid, if I try to put anything close to her, she limps off and not just a few steps. |
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Post by Hezz on Jan 27, 2017 10:11:07 GMT
An update on the scrub turkey hen(s). Today I saw that there are two!! (2!!) ... with the same sort of injury, which makes me really sad. It is possible that all the time I might have been seeing the two, but I really am not sure - I didn't pay that much attention to which leg Hoppy was on. Today I was out on the deck and noticed what I thought was Hoppy near the seed dish I have been putting out, with another hen close by. Then the other hen moved and I notice that she was hopping as well.  So we have two disabled scrub turkeys with the same injury, I think one might be right leg and the other left, but that really is beside the point; I am rather upset as the only thing I can think of that would cause the same sort of injury to two of the same species is a snap trap. I am sure these things are banned, and I cannot be sure that this what is/has caused the injuries. I have talked to two local vets and the wild life rescue people, to put the word out more than anything, in case more cases turn up, and in case anyone hears anyone talking about something like this. The general consensus is that I keep doing what I am doing, providing some food, and a variety of it, and only attempt to catch them if they seem to be deteriorating .... while they are healthy, it would be best to leave them alone, as as one of the vets advised, they would need to consider quality of life and the birds might have to be put down, if I brought them in ..... if I could catch them, to have them assessed. As they are, they have access to, and supplemented, food, so we watch and wait. I will be pulling up all and sundry up tomorrow on my morning walk to spread the word, as well. If someone is doing something like trapping, I want to catch the bast@#ds. 15 years and I have not seen this before, once, and now we have two in the matter of a couple of months. Too much of a coincidence, for me. I am a suspicious git.  |
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Post by Shirls on Jan 27, 2017 10:24:03 GMT
Oh that is very sad Hezz. So good that you are supplementing their diet, poor chookies. I hate those traps, they may well be banned but some people still use them even in this country. I had a beautiful tom cat go missing once and after a few days he came home dragging his poorly back leg behind. I feel sure he was caught in a trap as he had scraped all the flesh off the leg, down to the bone. I took him to the vet and he was sorted out, survived obviously, and bandaged for ages. |
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Post by Hezz on Jan 27, 2017 11:01:32 GMT
My biggest problem is that I have to feed all the healthy 'chooks' as well as the injured ones.  And today, I have noticed a ... possibly more than one .... sulphur crested cockatoo doing aerial surveillance, and frightening off the little doves. I don't want to encourage the cockies, as I know that some of them do, and are suffering from PBFD. There is one really sorry creature that I think needs to be put out of its misery, but catching it?? And do I really want to come in contact with it? I have to admit, no, not really.  |
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Post by OP on Jan 27, 2017 12:06:46 GMT
A sorry state of affairs. The word has to be put out about what is going on I think. I don't really use social media but do you think Facebook might have some influence?
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Post by jellybean on Jan 27, 2017 13:44:40 GMT
This is so sad. When I watch programmes on tv and see these poor animals caught in traps, and the suffering they have to endure, I would quite happily wrap it round the neck of the trapper.
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Post by Shirls on Jan 27, 2017 16:22:38 GMT
That is so sad Hezz, but unfortunately the way of the world. And no, you don't want to introduce any nasty virus' to your own birdies. |
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Post by Hezz on Jan 28, 2017 7:25:47 GMT
No cockies today, so hopefully the seed dishes are too close to the house ..... on purpose.  |
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Rats, I thought, yes, but not the banicoots. 
I will have to bring in the dishes in the evening and put them back out in the morning, it seems.
So we have two disabled scrub turkeys with the same injury, I think one might be right leg and the other left, but that really is beside the point; I am rather upset as the only thing I can think of that would cause the same sort of injury to two of the same species is a snap trap. I am sure these things are banned, and I cannot be sure that this what is/has caused the injuries.
And today, I have noticed a ... possibly more than one .... sulphur crested cockatoo doing aerial surveillance, and frightening off the little doves. I don't want to encourage the cockies, as I know that some of them do, and are suffering from PBFD. There is one really sorry creature that I think needs to be put out of its misery, but catching it?? And do I really want to come in contact with it? I have to admit, no, not really. 
