I would like something to pet and I don’t want it to bite that much. I might not play with it every day but I don’t want it to squrim or try to run away from me when I play with it. What type of snake or bird should I get? It has to be in a reasonable price. The down side with the snake is that I have to feed it mice, but some of them eat crickets. The downside with the bird is that it makes too much noise, and I think it’ll be harder to play with and pet.
Help?
my brother and i found quite a large baby bird in my backyard the other day. it had been sitting there all day. when we looked up to try and replace it back in a nest we saw nothing near us that looked like one. i brought the baby bird back into my house and since i work at a petstore im keeping it in a box with shavings some cotton and a towel. yesterday it ate some crickets and seemed to keep a few of them down. this morning i woke up and tried to feed it again and it does not seem to want to eat. my boss said that i should call some wildlife person but since i live in the middle of who knows where kansas im not sure where i need to call. does anybody know any wildlife “people” i can call to help me?
I have read so many conflicting things. We had an adult duck adopt us. We loved her so much but a dog killed her. She was easy to take care of though. She caught most of her own food plus ate cat food, scraps, and my son always brought her home minnows and fish. So we just had to go get another one. But it’s tiny baby. We went to the feed store and got chicken starter. But she won’t eat it!!! We have to go catch her grasshoppers every day. I know you’re not supposed to give them bread but I tried mixing specs of bread with the starter food and she still picks through and only eats the bread. I tried shredded lettuce, broccoli, boiled eggs. What do I do with her? I also gave her some bird gravel and have it in her pen at all times. We are on social security so I just don’t have the money to buy crickets and feeder goldfish or guppies. She eats a dozen at a time? Also, is this normal? I feed her 12 grasshoppers twice a day. She ate 8 little goldfish at once. HELP.
Someone isn’t reading my question!!! I said I got chick starter, she won’t eat it. We live on 3 acres with lots of animals. She won’t eat greens, or boiled eggs. She ignores them. She will only eat grasshoppers and fish. She is yellow with a black tail. Not a wild duck. How do I get her to eat the chick starter???? That was my main question. Or any other suggestions on how to get her to eat what she is supposed to. Yes she is tiny. She has down, no feathers.
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I live in Oklahoma and I work at a pet store and a customer dropped off a baby blue jay and he has down feathers and some bigger feathers on his wings. Since we have Hand-Fed birds I am certified to hand-feed. i have been feeding him store bought baby bird formula and crickets. He has been eating really well and pooping good. He has a neck problem to where he cant keep his head straight but he is able to move it when he has an itch, so I know his neck isn’t broken. I need help to what blue jays eat and how often and how long to be hand-feeding him. If he lives he wont be able to go back into the wild because with all the other problems he is also blind in one eye! I have a dumb bird on my hands please someone give me advice.
While vacationing in Central Wisconsin I found a baby bird floating in the lake, about 100 yards from shore. It is NOT a water bird. I picked it up and brought it inside, wrapped it in towels and dried it off. I didn’t think it’d make it, but it’s doing okay. It has all of its feathers but still cannot fly. I’m feeding it a combination of wet dog food, sow bugs, moths, crickets, maggots. The thing eats anything. My question is what kind of bird is it? I’m a seasoned bird watcher but this one has confounded me. It’s about 4 inches, no tail feathers, charcoal grey back, grey belly. Beak is like a starling (not yellow though, just the shape). It constantly squawks. Non-stop, only at night when he puts his head under his wing to sleep does it stop squawking. Any ornithologists out there who can help me figure out what the heck this thing is?
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Used to be Feeding Video 8 on the Jon3800 account Feeding the following Ts: 1) Poecilotheria Metallica- Gooty Sapphire Ornamental 2) Grammostola Rosea – Chilean Rose 3) Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens -Green Bottle Blue 4) Brachypelma vagans – Mexican red rump 5) Phomictopus cancerides- Haitian Brown Bird Eater 6) Cyclosternum fasciatum – Tiger Rump 7) Ephebopus uatuman – Emerald skeleton 
Lasiodora parahybana – Brazilian pink salmon bird eater 9) Theraphosa blondi – Goliath bird eater
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I am thinking of getting a bearded dragon. I have had alot of pets (dogs, cats, birds, rodents…etc.) over the years and am fairly experienced at keeping pets, but I have never had a lizard of any kind. I was told a Beardie was a good first lizard. I need advise on feeding and especially housing. Are crickets better then worms? What is the best housing? I was looking up habitats on petstore sites, but I don’t know what’s better, the aquariums, or the screened cages. It seems like the airflow in the screen cages wouls be better, but I am worried the lizard will damage it and escape, and one reviewer on one site said he had problems with CRICKETS eating the screens! Also, what is more important to the Beardie, floor space to strech out, or head space to climb up (a long enclosure or a high enclosure)? If you know a good website to order good habitats from that would be apreciated! ThanX.
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