Mute samples - how the hell do you take em?

[longwing]

Hiyas all, thouight that a nice topic like this should help get you thropugh the moult.

How do you take mute samples? A while back I was told to get one, so I did and sent it to the vet, then they said it wasn't enough so I had to get another one and send it to them. That one wasn't enough either. I ended up taking her to the vet and they had a special pot thing and and little scoop for collecting them. So not fair. They wouldn't give me one either.

[Falcon Boy]

I put down plastic wrap under its perch. When it mutes, i move the plastic from under the perch, and i slide the mute off the plastic into a plastic bag and pop it in the fridge.

[tanaro2]

Its usually pretty easy. I just put a glove on my son and let him hold the bird. Usually within 15 seconds she spews all over him. I then scrape it off his face and there you go. Don't know why, but when she gets on his fist, he becomes a poop magnet.

[Weasel]

Key is to make sure that there is some of the "dark" bits with the sample. Every time I have been to the vets, they sake an amount equivilent to that of a Q tip end. I get my samples by sitting in the vets office and waiting for the bird to slice on the floor....I then call the vet tech and she comes for the sample.....easy...LOL!!!!

[longwing]

yeah lol that's how I did it last time...
Hmm plastic bag was recommended to me, fine with any bird I've tried it with apart from Dusk. As soon as the bag goes near her, sh'es trying to eat it...also have that problem with an eagle owl, he was fine with it until I went, then he ate the whole thing and it came out in a pellet...luckily. So now I stand and watch to make sure they don't eat it lol. But with Dusk there's no chance.
Will try Tanaro's method, pity my ex boyfriend no longer comes to see us...

[grappler]

Mine is quite easy .She has a habit of having a crap just before she takes off from the fist for the first time.
Its a great thing to know as if there is somebody like your ex-boyfriend there you can manouvre the bird into the correct position before releasing her jesses.

Works everytime....Offcoarse i never no this

ooooops!......Sorry