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12-05-2008, 11:00 AM
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My collared dove
I have a collared dove . My son came to visit me on Saturday. As I went out to meet them by the front gate, my son asks me if I have a catching net. I asked what for and he showed me a collared dove walking in the road which seemed to have been hit by a car. The bottom part of the wing was hanging and the first joint was shattered completely. Not just a break as it turned out, but smashed to smithereens. Anyway, Instead of going all the way down the garden for my catching net (which I use for chickens) he and I herded it towards my cottage and with one grab I had it. Poor little thing. The bottom part of the wing was being held on only by one thread of skin. So I got my sharp scissors and with a quick snip which it appeared not to feel, it was off. I sprayed it liberally with antibiotic spray (blue stuff from the vet for livestock_ and placed it into a dark box for the night, fully expecting it to be dead the next day. To my surprise it wasn't so I placed it into one of the pet carry boxes with food and water and it's now out in the aviary block. This morning it was still alive and very active. It jumped out of the block and was able to flutter quite a distance as it still has all the main flight feathers on the wing. What happened in effect is that when the joint got smashed and left hanging, but cutting through the thread of skin, I had pinioned it just like they do with ducks and things to stop them flying away. I would rather not have. Would rather have been in a position to fix the wing and allow it to fly free again eventually. As it is, I now have yet another mouth to feed for the rest of it's life.
Depending on it's ability to flutter upwards once the wound has healed, I can place it into one of the aviaries and it'll be able to live at least some resemblance of the life it had before. Not completely free of course, but able to sit in the sun, feel wind on it's back, see trees and other birds and not be bothered by humans apart from me going in twice a day to feed and water and check etc. Now the warm weather is here, the weather panels have been removed from the aviary block and the whole of the east facing wall is now open.  
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12-05-2008, 11:06 AM
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awww bless so glad it survived and its a lucky birdy finding your place will deffo have a good home and be looked after safe from being eaten cos of a disability
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12-05-2008, 11:34 AM
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I was in two minds to be honest, whether to put it out of it's pain right away, but son is as big an animal lover as I am and he wanted me to try so I did.It might still die but I've done the best I can and I can't do more than that can I? I still can't figure out how it got the wound. Surely a hit by a car would kill outright? I know it wasn't a cat or else it would be dead. I don't think anyone in the 3 cottages nearby would shoot with an air rifle. At least I hope not or there will be war.There aren't any teenage thugs in the cottages in any case and I doubt normal adult would .But I could be wrong.
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12-05-2008, 01:03 PM
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it could have been a cat sometimes if a cat isnt hungry it will just catch and play with the bird end up hurting it badly but not killing it my cat brings in live prey allllll the time
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12-05-2008, 01:07 PM
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12-05-2008, 01:36 PM
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Sometimes being clipped even slightly by the wing mirror can cause a shattered wing.
I am a firm believer of if 'man' has caused the suffering then 'man' should be responisible for it's life from then on. Just because an animal has a disability, if there is someone who will care for it then why let it die? Good on you for taking it in, just hope if it had chicks that the partner is still around or they have fledged, it's that time of year. We've got 2 collared doves, got lots of weight on them now as they were skin and bone when i stopped the dogs eating them
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12-05-2008, 01:53 PM
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Sadly I have no way of finding out if it has nestlings or a partner or anything else. Living way out in the wilds as I do, it could have come from anywhere. Twas lucky my son found it before my cats did. Although I don't know what they would have done, certainly they won't bring birds into the house due to mumsie going ballistic, yelling and screeching and chucking pans of cold water over poor puss-me-catches. Rodents are way better cos then mumsie coos at them and gives cheese and raw eggs cracked into the dish and milk.Anyway if it had been left where it was, some fool on a tractor would have run it over.It won't be the first dove or pigeon or in fact wild bird I've had to care for. The best are magpies, rooks and any other corvids. Enormous fun they are.I used to have a semi tame rook named Gregory Peck. He even started to say his name "grrrrregoooory". When he was eventually released, He would perch in one of my large trees and call to me if I called his name. Well at least I think it was him, they all look the same up in the sky!
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12-05-2008, 02:09 PM
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Still, It's one of the best things when released, that they come to visit afterwards, as if thanking for the help you gave. We've raised magpies, and other corvids. Best were 2 magpies, one of which started to minic me sneezing lol cause I have hayfever. lol
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