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U of Alberta - 2012 / Chase & Radisson

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bcbird:
Thank you, Bev, for the pictures.  The ones of the chicks are hard to look at.  I'm sorry.

RCF:
 Thanks bev

bev.:
We have not had this problem in a long while. Gord said, all it takes is one bird with this . Not Radissons , or Chases fault. Lots of food and you will see the stashes on ledges.But it was not being retained

here is link to slideshow.

am posting a slideshow. have a few more of chick, but I want to get permission to post Jeans picture with it

here is link

when I get permission i will post Jean with our fairly good chick, I hope

http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/2012%20falcons/?action=view&current=f39fed04.pbw

bev.:

WEll I am back and Peter will download the few pictures i got shortly. I was so upset to see them that I forgot to take a lot of pictures

I must tell you that I am still in shock. I should have stayed with my instinct and had them pulled last weekend.

I did not  like the way their fluff look. It was not fluffy.   Gord said this is because , they usually poop out of the box but if their energy is low they poop inside and thus on each other. this was evident. I have tears as I write this. But we thought that since one chick was so much bigger it was female. But it was the size the other 2 should have been . the other 2 were half the weight , they should be.  the food coming in was great but they were pooping it out.

We could see all their stashes from the roof. Chase di dnot know quite what to do. he went over to College Plaza and stayed there but then came back cacking at us. Radisson does not trust us and sat at Maz. She was still cacking long after we left  :egg11:  :egg11: .

  So this is the scoop. I talked to Gord on the phone a bit ago. The 2 chicks removed were emaciated and covered with blood sucking mites and flat flies. Both had Frounce, Trichomonas gallinae. It grows as a canker in the throat and eventually kills the birds. in the past this was almost fatal but with the newer antiflalgelllate  drugs , it can be cured. Our wonderful falcon breeder , is treating the birds now. Gord checked the healthy chick and he did not have any throat cankers but we will have to watch him.

Now , although Gord starts a week of holidays today, he is going up to the box tomorrow and cleaning it out and dusting it and putting in new gravel . He will also give the chick a dose of the medicine, in case, and dust him . so RAdissson will be upset again but it will be for the good of the chick
so needless to say , I will stay with my gut from now on.

Weber

the chick there is as healthy as these were sick. The both sites will be fledging at the same time so I will be busy.

I am going to try and get some donations  to help Phil with feeding these chicks of ours as Gord has now put 4 with him. Phil will have a few of the female peregrines feed them. thank God for Phil.

Peter will download the few pictures I got of Clinical and I will post in a bit

MayShowers:
So glad to hear that Gord thinks there is a good chance of recovery and they were retrieved in time.

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