I thought that tinned dog food was recommended, for the calcium balance.
I think that I heard John Dengate recommend this years ago.
Chris
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Denise Goodfellow <
> wrote:
> Not a good idea to feed birds mince. It can stick to the roof of the upper
> mandible. We used to feed our Brown Falcon diced steak dipped in egg yolk,
> calcium powder and chopped feathers Magpies might do well with a similar
> diet.
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> on 25/2/12 6:40 PM, Merrilyn Serong at wrote:
>
> > Somewhere I've heard that if you feed magpies minced meat, you should
> > include some calcium powder with it to avoid a deficiency. Does anyone
> > know if this is true?
> > I'm not planning on feeding the locals... just interested.
> > Cheers,
> > Merrilyn
> >
> > On 25/02/2012 2:29 PM, patrick appleton wrote:
> >> Speaking of Maggies,
> >>
> >> I spent most of a day watching an abandoned baby mag with no mum or
> dad
> >> showing up at all. The babe pleaded with a male feeding another older
> infant
> >> for some tucker but he was attacked. So after feeding him some mince I
> >> picked him up to take him to the Vet and then the wild life carers.
> BUT it
> >> was still New Years so the Vet was closed so the baby spent the night
> on my
> >> boat with me.
> >>
> >> Giving him water via a bottle cap then later a syringe, I noticed in the
> >> air-conditioned car ride his bill was wide open and I wondered if I'd
> given
> >> him too much water?????
> >>
> >>
> >> On the boat and in his shoe box nest he appeared relaxed and was
> acting
> >> like a baby magpie and no more wide open bill. At the crack of dawn we
> >> returned to the tree I found him under and fed him some captured flies
> and
> >> mince. There were 2 broods near the tree and one of the males took
> some meat
> >> out of my hand.
> >> But they ignored my little mate while I sat in my car for a couple of
> hours
> >> watching so off to the Vet we went.
> >>
> >> I'm assuming juniors mum and dad may have been effected by the 'Annual
> Avian
> >> Holocaust' (new years eve fireworks) and why he was abandoned. But my
> >> question is : How long do you wait for mum and dad to return before you
> >> decide he's abandoned ??? If Paynesville wasn't the dog, cat& fox
> capital
> >> of Gippsland I would have left it under the tree overnight.
> >> Pat Appleton xoxoxox
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