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cheers cobra much appreciated......it might be the offspring of a local scallys bird, pitbulls are so yesterday dont ya know
I have two harrises myself, and, it is a sad reflection of the times, that birds of prey have no worth or value anymore.....
Yes but we all know the reason for that, certainly with HH's
too many back yard breeders.
I remember early 70's when they were very much a rarity,
female Finnish Gos money may have got you one
I'm a bit out of touch with Gos prices, TBH
as I only really fly longwings these days.
But The German x Finnish certainly were knocking the price down,
even a few years ago.
And as you know, you only have to look at the IBR losts and found.
People get 'em cant handle 'em and just "lose" 'em by design or accident.
Mostly by accident I guess, due to the ones I have "recovered" in the past,
still wearing a lot of kit
Bloody ridiculous :shake:You can pick up a male Gos for a couple of hundred nowadays
Bloody ridiculous :shake:
Sounds about right TBH.the good news is the bird is being collected via a friend of a friend of a friend and its going to the Barn owl centre to be cared for,the bad news is that the lad who found it though had tried to contact the RSPCA last night via their website and calling them, no joy or help last night but lo and behold they have turned up this morning accusing him of animal cruelty and torturing the poor thing
honestly the world is mad at times:shrug:
TBH it depends on the "level" of damage, I may have been tempted to put it down too,
if it was "severe"
Perching on one leg causes all sorts of problems (Bumble foot for one)
if it doesn't have the abbility to move about.
Having said that I know a couple of falconers birds that have had broken legs
fixed succesully, after hitting "game" too hard!
But those legs do look a little "wasted" or deformed, "beyond broken".
not such good news for the poor bird,the RSPCA took the bird and have destroyed it ........apparently its in its best interest :bang:
is that their idea of preventing cruelty...just bloody murder everything:bonk:
From the email I received the bird was destroyed as it had two broken legs and a broken wing, injuries were at least three weeks old....
Thanks for the update
I must admit at the time, that wing didn't look right,
but thought it may have been "steadying itself" on what looked like two
broken or one broken & one "wasted" leg.
It makes you wonder how the hell it "got like that" though, doesn't it?
And of course the guy has absolutely no reason to reproach himself,
he did everything he could / should have
Very probable.I would say that the bird looks like it had rickets..... could it be, a 'back yard' breeder, who didn't feed the bird on a quality diet...?
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Yep, can't argue with that.....Very probable.
But as you said too late for this one now.
Unfortunately we both know its not the first, to end up
in a "right state" and won't be the last either.