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D C T--friendly poultry orthopedist

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Date Posted: 20:06:53 06/05/11 Sun
In reply to: Kent Justus 's message, "Are Owls A Serious Threat to Adults?" on 10:32:05 06/05/11 Sun

Some years ago I did not notice that there was a spot on
top of my flight pen where I had missed fastening two rows
of dogwire together. A one year old peahen was badly
injured so that she barely survived. Her injuries were
the kind that would come from attack of owl or hawk.
When a raptor attacks any long necked bird such as peafowl
or duck it wraps its toes around the neck to strangle it.
And the talons dig into the flesh. That peahen of mine
was fortunate to escape death. Perhaps something
frightened the predator away before it could finish the
job. The vet gave her a shot of antibiotic and I had to
hand feed her for a week while keeping one of eyes taped
shut until the eyelid recovered from paralysis.
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I live in a place where there are predators, both flying and
four legged so that my peafowls MUST be penned. I know that
in some parts of America peafowls live and breed in the
wild but NOT here.

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