MUST you take your bird to the vet if it is perfectly healthy when you trap it?
thanks!
"Falconry is not a hobby or an amusement; it is a rage. You eat and drink it, sleep it and think it. You tremble to write of it, even in recollection. It is as King James the First remarked, an extreme stirrer up of passions." --- T.H. White
Odds are, it isn't perfectly healthy. Most wild-trapped raptors have parasites, from feather mites to tapeworms. You don't want your bird to have tapeworms.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for a lifetime.
To answer your question No, you dont. But how do you know its a healthy bird? It will take you a few months before you'll even be able to read a birds body language.
Raptors are very good at hiding weakness in the wild because if they show it.. they get attacked.
When you trap your bird the added stress of being caught, loss of weight, may trigger a hidden ailment. Also, most raptors ( like wild domesticated dogs) have some type of worms to begin with.
If you think there's ANYTHING wrong with your bird.. immediatly rush to the vet because by that time its prolly so weak it cant help but show it.
I havnt gone to the vet yet, but everytime that I risk it like that.. I will get closer to paying the price someday.
"Falconry is not a hobby or an amusement; it is a rage. You eat and drink it, sleep it and think it. You tremble to write of it, even in recollection. It is as King James the First remarked, an extreme stirrer up of passions." --- T.H. White
