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Admission date2024-10-15
Final date -
Days in captivity37
SpeciesBADO - Barred owl
AgeHY
SexUNK
StatusReh
Band18182/orange
Blood in mouth
Bruised roof of mouth
Ocular - chorioretinitis, OD
Ocular - chorioretinitis, OS
Parasitic - Capillaria
Parasitic - Coccidia

Cause of injury: HBC

Finder present at release

Found in Ellenboro,NC
Rutherford county
Here is a summary of this patient's treatments and expenses:

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate3715.40569.80
Radiographs3300.00900.00
Fecal exam562.00310.00
Total  1899.80

Costs are estimates based on fees charged at a local avian specialist.
Radiographs and images

2024-10-18

2024-10-18

2024-10-18
2024-11-20 15:45 SD
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 180 g R (+ vit + Ca) PER BIRD
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP. Orange and lime flying already when entering enclosure. NOLO. Water good.

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[26575] / HY / UNK - Exercsied 10 times.Took a little more motivation.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - 12+ times. flew great, needed least amount of
motivation
[26649] / 18180/lime / HY / UNK - Exercised 10+ times.

2024-11-19 11:38 AL
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food:195g m/ck (+ vit + Ca)
Exercise: 8x

NOLO
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[26575] / HY / UNK - BARP, flew perch to perch quite a bit even when others were
still.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - BARP, first to go after food. Flew and grabbed
food before I left.
[26649] / 18180/lime / HY / UNK - BARP, flew well and grabbed mouse quickly.

2024-11-18 11:23 me

Group entry: 3 animals
Intentionally skipped today

2024-11-17 16:02 SC
Weight: 581 grams, Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 182 g m

Weighed for grabbing class

2024-11-16 15:00 ABH
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 197 g m
Exercise: 12x

NOLO. BARP. Able to fly p2p with some difficulty. Occasional wall/ceiling landings
and mid-air collisions.

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[26575] / HY / UNK - multiple ceiling landings and mid-air collisions.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK -
[26649] / 18180/lime / HY / UNK -

2024-11-15 16:00 MB
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 207 g dk m (+ vit + Ca) TOAL
Did not exercise because new owl was moved into enclosure.
NOLO, BARP- all perched, then flying p2p when door opened

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[26575] / HY / UNK -
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK -
[26649] / 18180/lime / HY / UNK -

2024-11-14 14:37 KK
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 130 g m total
Exercise: 10-12x. Did not exercise due to rain. BARP NOLO

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[26575] / HY / UNK - Tail feathers split in the middle
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK -

2024-11-13 16:30 jh
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 128 g ck (+ vit + Ca)
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP, NOLO
orange went to food as soon as door shut
water clean, collected pellets

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[26575] / HY / UNK - 10x, silent and balanced
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - 13x, silent and balanced

2024-11-12 16:28 LR
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 124g m/ck
Exercise: 10-12x


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[26575] / HY / UNK - flew stealthily and silently, beautiful glides
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - flew to other perch as I opened door, a little
hesitant to glide, glided silently, sometimes hit the wall, left perch before other
owl

2024-11-11 16:47 GM
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 117 g m (+ vit + Ca) PER BIRD
Exercise: 10-12x

Both completed exercise 12x. NOLO

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[26575] / HY / UNK - Possibly damaged or missing tail feather (may have already had
this issue). Silent flight, no dipping. Good gliding.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - Grabbed ceiling 3x in middle of flight to other
perch. Flew great otherwise. Silent flight, no dipping. Good gliding.

2024-11-10 16:22 AG
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 129 ck
Exercise: 10-12x
BARP, NOLO, Perch to Perch
Orange band: spooked easily, somewhat agressive
Other band: flies well

2024-11-09 15:40 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 129 g m
Flight eval by staff

Both BARP. NOLO. Changed water. No pellets.

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[26575] / HY / UNK - flying perfectly. Are retrices a concern if this bird is silent
and coordinated?
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - perfect flight. Does this bird need live prey testing?

Flight eval
Exam date - 2024-11-09
Examiner - MS
FlightSound
Notes:
Flew 15x+ with no encouragement, mostly back to back. Agree with previous assessment.

2024-11-09 11:10 egg

Group entry: 2 animals
Exercise: 10-12x
BAR, both perched at start. Both exercised 12+ times. Performed flight eval.
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[26575] / HY / UNK - Has some new tail feathers growing in.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - Very willing to fly, sometimes right at me.

Flight eval
Exam date - 2024-11-09
Examiner - egg
FlightSound
Notes:
Very consistent flight. Very quiet. maintains a stable elevation at perch height. Glides about half the enclosure. Good at landing. Great Stamina

2024-11-08 16:22 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 124 g m (+ vit + Ca) TOTAL
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP, NOLO, both flew 12x with no issues. Very bright and alert

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[26575] / HY / UNK -
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK -

2024-11-07 14:59 KK
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 137 g m total
Exercise: 10-12x. Both flew 12x well. BARP NOLO

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[26575] / HY / UNK -
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK -

2024-11-06 15:51 jh
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 123 g m (+ vit + Ca)
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP, NOLO,
both birds flew almost all their laps while I refreshed water

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[26575] / HY / UNK - 10x balanced & quiet
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - 12x balanced & quiet

2024-11-05 11:00 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 137 g m/ck (+ vit + Ca)
Exercise: 10-12x

Both BARP, NOLO. Lots of casts. Changed water.

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[26575] / HY / UNK - flew 8x, a bit wet. more quiet than orange.
[26612] / 18182/orange / HY / UNK - flew 10x, a bit wet.

2024-11-04 09:48 Me

Group entry: 2 animals
Intentionally skipped today

2024-11-03 16:00 AG
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 128 g chk
Exercise: 10-12x
BARP, NOLO, Perch to Perch, flies well

2024-11-02 12:54 CPR
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 124 g total
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP. Both flew from pirch to pirch well. Orange would fly into the other owl frequently.
NoLo.

2024-11-01 17:00 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 122 g m (+ vit + Ca) TOTAL
Exercise: 10-12x

BARP, NOLO. Both flew 12x with no issue. Very alert and responsive

2024-10-31 16:42 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
No color started vocalizing to orange when orange was let go. Orange started creeping
towards no color, but otherwise, they seem okay.

2024-10-31 16:41 MS

Band changed to: 18182/orange

2024-10-31 16:36 MS
Weight: 535 grams, Keel score: 3.0, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +33 g (7 %)
Food: 67 g m
Sulfadimethoxine: 0.25 ml (Albon 50 mg/ml susp) PO
Check eyes: OU
Weigh
Keel check
Move to - somewhere bigger, if fecal is negative

BAR, flying around enclosure. Very bitey. Both retinas were hard to visualize. The PCs seemed dark to me. Not sure if this warrants LPT, but damage is all scarring. Banded. NOLO.

MOVED TO: R5

Eye exam
Exam date - 2024-10-31
Examiner - MS
RIGHTLEFT
PLRMenacePLRMenace
++DNE++DNE
Stain Stain 
DNE DNE 
Right eye:
Area of gray floating specks at base of pecten. Lateral aspect of PC has little pattern and some patches of gray scarring
Left eye:
Two long stretches of gray scarring, almost horizontal streaks of gray medial to pecten, affecting ~10%. Pattern seems okay.

2024-10-31 15:00 AL


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
d/c Albon

Fecal
Collection date2024-10-31
ResultsNEG

2024-10-30 16:49 SD
Leftovers: 0
Food: 62 g m/ck (+ vit + Ca)
Sulfadimethoxine: 0.25 ml (Albon 50 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP. Flying p2p before entering and while dropping food in enclosure. NOLO.

2024-10-29 16:00 lkm
Leftovers: 0
Food: 66 g m/ck
Sulfadimethoxine: 0.25 ml (Albon 50 mg/ml susp) PO

Qarp, on front perch, flew to back perch when entered, flew back and forth to perches the whole time, once I exited bird stayed on back perch and looked down at food and then back to door, NOLO

2024-10-28 16:54 sc/al/srm
Leftovers: 0
Food: 60 g ck (+ vit + Ca)
Sulfadimethoxine: 0.25 ml (Albon 50 mg/ml susp) PO

qar, perched, nothing else of note

2024-10-27 16:11 AG
Leftovers: 0
Food: 67 g m
Sulfadimethoxine: 0.25 ml (Albon 50 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP, NoLo, very active, flying perch to perch

2024-10-26 14:45 ABH
Leftovers: 0
Food: 61 g m

Meloxicam: 0.17 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO

NOLO. BARP. Flew p2p approx. 6 times accurately without incident. Flights were quiet.

2024-10-26 12:42 EGG


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
start Albon SIDx5

Fecal
Collection date2024-10-26
ResultsPOS for
coccidia
Fecal
Collection date2024-10-26
ResultsPOS for
coccidia

2024-10-25 15:30 MB
Leftovers: 0
Food: 69 g ck(+ vit + Ca)
Meloxicam: 0.17 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Fecal: in fridge

NOLO, QARP- flying p2p constantly until I left.

2024-10-24 16:41 ah
Leftovers: 0
Food: 35 g m; NOLO
Meloxicam: 0.17 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Bird was on back perch and Bar upon arrival, he did start to fly around the enclosure once I was inside

2024-10-24 14:36 MS


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
switch to SID

2024-10-24 13:20 MS

Food: 36 g m + 18 g m c/u
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

No notes recorded

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
d/c FF tonight

2024-10-23 17:24 jh
Leftovers: 0
Food: 34 g m/ck (+ vit + Ca)
Force feed: 17 g ck cut up size B (+ vit + Ca), If not eating
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP, flew 5 laps while tryin to grab, NOLO so only FF half to go with meds, would not TF

2024-10-23 09:40 tm
Leftovers: 0
Food: 50 g m (+ vit + Ca)
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

BAR, P
flew from perch to perc
NOLO

2024-10-22 17:09 cd
Leftovers: 0
Food: 55g m
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP, NOLO! Flew perch to perch as I walked in to check all around for LOs - may have cached them well but I don't see any. Put meds in food and dropped all new food on brick.

2024-10-22 09:40 ME
Leftovers: 18
Food: 36 g ck
Force feed: 18 g ck cut up size B
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO
18 g LO
BAR, flying a little

2024-10-21 16:52 cd
Leftovers: 27
Food: 36 g m
Force feed: 15 g M/ck cut up size B (+ vit + Ca)
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO
27 g lo

2024-10-21 09:35 eb
Leftovers: 33
Food: 36 g ck (+ vit + Ca)
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO
Fecal

QAR
flying perch to perch
33 g m LO
no mutes; did not collect fecal sample
does not have any water - should we provide water?
May need to start FF tonight

2024-10-20 17:31 AG
Leftovers: 25
Food: 33 g m
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO
BAR, Left overs

2024-10-20 09:41 cd
Weight: 502 grams, Keel score: 2.5, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: -2 g (0 %)

Food: 26g m
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO
MOVED TO: R38

BARP, NOLO. Eating consistently but not gaining much weight, probably related to parasite infection. Moved outside - flew to ramp, clung to wall, then perched when prompted.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc food

2024-10-19 18:26 MS
Leftovers: 0
Food: 25 g m
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP, hopped off perch. started eating right away. NOLO.

2024-10-19 09:11 cd
Leftovers: 0
Food: 31g ck
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Tramadol: 0.25 ml (40 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP, NOLO - did not grab. Changed papers. Food was gone within a few hrs when checked on later.

2024-10-18 16:27 SD
Leftovers: 0
Food: 28 g m (+ vit + Ca)
SQ fluids: 20 ml
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO

BARP. Clacking and bitey when handling. Fluids given in R leg. NOLO.

2024-10-18 16:08 MS


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
switch to tram starting tomorrow

2024-10-18 10:45 ME
Weight: 504 grams, Leftovers: 27
Weight change: -16 g (3 %)
Food: 28 g ck (+ vit + Ca)
SQ fluids: 20 ml
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Buprenorphine: 0.25 ml (0.6 mg/ml inj) IM
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
27 g LO
Check eyes: OU
Anesthetized with ISO via mask (5% induction, 3% maintain) for intake Radiographs: NSF
Slow recovery
Weigh

Eye exam
Exam date - 2024-10-18
Examiner - ME
RIGHTLEFT
PLRMenacePLRMenace
+DNE+DNE
Stain Stain 
DNE DNE 
Right eye:
PLR inconsistent, moderate scarring medial/caudal to pecten, no pattern cranial
Left eye:
mild floating debris caudal, very mild widespread gray scaring

2024-10-17 17:22 jb/KK
Leftovers: 29
Food: 30 g m
SQ fluids: 20 ml

Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
Feisty, BAR
29LO

2024-10-17 09:30 AL
Weight: 520 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +29 g (6 %)
Food: 29g m (+ vit + Ca)
Fenbendazole: 0.15 ml (100 mg/ml susp) PO
Buprenorphine: 0.25 ml (0.6 mg/ml inj) IM
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
BID - makes notes on blood in mouth - no fresh blood seen in mouth NOLO, QAR

2024-10-16 18:48 MS
Leftovers: 20
Food: 25 g ck (+ vit + Ca)
SQ fluids: 20 ml R leg
Buprenorphine: 0.25 ml (0.6 mg/ml inj) IM
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO

BAR, standing at front of kennel with head facing the back. Bird didn't react to door opening but reacted when he turned and saw me. Visual. Didn't eat.

2024-10-16 13:48 MS


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Start fenben SIDx5

Fecal
Collection date2024-10-16
ResultsPOS for
capillaria
nematode
Fecal
Collection date2024-10-16
ResultsNEG

2024-10-16 11:00 MS
Leftovers: 26
Food: 20 g dk m (+ vit + Ca)
Force feed: 10 g m c/u (+ vit + Ca)
SQ fluids: 20 ml L leg
Buprenorphine: 0.25 ml (0.6 mg/ml inj) IM
Meloxicam: 0.16 ml (1.5 mg/ml susp) PO
BID - makes notes on blood in mouth

QAR, standing at front of kennel on mouse. Bitey and clacking in hand. No fresh blood in the mouth. Did not eat.

2024-10-15 18:33 me
Weight: 491 grams, Keel score: 2.5
History: hit by car last night, captured and kept overnight; met transporter this afternoon

------------- PHYSICAL EXAM FINDINGS ----------------
Head
Behavior and Neuro: QAR
Body
Wings
Legs
Ectoparasites: flat flies

20 cc LRS SQ
0.25 cc Buprenorphine IM
0.05 cc Meloxi IM
Applied Bronco spray
26 g dk M

Eye exam
Exam date - 2024-10-15
Examiner - me
RIGHTLEFT
PLRMenacePLRMenace
+DNE+DNE
Stain Stain 
DNE DNE 
Right eye:
moderately white/bright area (detachment?) extending cranial and caudal from pecten, 10-15% affected; rest of retina WNL
Left eye:
small gray scarred area cranial to pecten, 5% affected

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