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26934 Problems Notes Costs
Admission date2025-03-10
Final date -
Days in captivity24
SpeciesGHOW - Great horned owl
AgeL
SexUNK
StatusReh
Band22006/yellow
NSF

Cause of injury: Unknown

Body grab only
Carry and weigh in box
Needs live prey test

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

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate2415.40369.60
Fecal exam362.00186.00
Total  675.60

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

2025-03-13
2025-04-02 17:35 jh/cd
Leftovers: 219
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 270g dk m/ck cut 1/2 (+ vit + ca) in 3 piles
CAAMO if going inside
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

All BAR and clacky. Biggest baby perched others huddled together in corner

Reduce AM food?

2025-04-02 10:00 RN
Weight: 1031 grams, Leftovers: 88
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 274g dk m/ck cut 1/2 (+ vit + ca)
Weigh all
Added ground perch
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, perched 1031g
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, standing on upside down waterbowl,
1005g
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, standing on upside down water bowl, 1022g

2025-04-01 17:08 sc

Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 252g m c 1/2

There is a good bit of LO from this morning. Did not take and scattered food farther
into the enclosure. 2 were on the wter dish and the other on the side ramp

2025-04-01 10:06 CPR

Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 272 g dk m/ck cut 1/2 Total

All bAR. standing in corner together. Tossed food i through hatch. NoLo
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

2025-03-31 17:07 gm
Leftovers: 96
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 264 dk m/ck cut 1/2 PER BIRD (+ vit + ca)
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

All birds BAR. Two perched together on water dish that was turned over, unable to
visulize bands under fluff. Hissing and clacking at me. Other bird perched on ramp,
also clacking. Unable to see band on this bird either. removed LOs due to ants and
dropped new food.

2025-03-31 10:03 BT
Weight: 992 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +4 g (0 %)

2025-03-31 10:00 BT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 202 g m/ck cut 1/2 PER BIRD (+ vit + ca)
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - BARP,weighed and moved to 35a
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - BARP,weighed and moved to 35a
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK - QARP, stayed on lower perch while other Owls moved in.
NOLO
Pellets collected

2025-03-30 15:57 CPR
Leftovers: 95
Group entry: 2 animals
Food AM: 166 g ck c/u Total

Both BARP. Tossed food in from hatch. heard clacking and hissing. 95 g lo
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-30 09:33 CPR
Weight: 988 grams, Leftovers: 42
Group entry: 2 animals
Food 149 g m c/u total

Both BAR. Sitting on perch together. grabbed for weigh. 42 g Lo

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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - tried to bite when approacking the bird. When
grabbing the bird was chirping and kicking
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - when approaching the bird, it hissed and clacked
its beak. Kickin and hissing when grabbed

2025-03-29 16:33 EGG

Group entry: 2 animals
171 g m/ck c/u
BAR, hissing and clacking in back left corner. Had some LOs in both corners. Left
them in and added food in two piles, one on each side, while wearing camo.
One bird was hissing and clacking more than the other, but did not get a good look
at which.

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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-29 14:04 MS

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
remove the midday feeding note
switch to fully furred food

2025-03-29 10:08 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 120 g dk m/ck c/u big TOTAL
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

Both BAR, hissing and clacking. Mutes++, nolo visible. Dropped food in two piles
through hatch w camo. Babies are in R35c.

2025-03-28 16:45 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 110 g dk m c/u big

Both BAR, standing in back. Used food hatch.

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[26934] / 22006/ Yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/ Dark Blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-28 09:06 cm
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 107 g dk m c/u (size c) total, in enclosure (+vit +Ca)
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

BAR. One perched, one grounded. NOLO
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[26934] / 22006/ Yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/ Dark Blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-28 08:47 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 124 g m/ck c/u (size c) TOTAL (+vit +Ca)
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

Both in corner behind perch

2025-03-27 09:36 SC/LT

Band changed to: 22006/ Yellow

2025-03-27 09:29 SC/LT
Weight: 968 grams, Leftovers: 21
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 153 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u TOTAL;

21g LO collected
ID Band added- 22006/ Yellow

MOVED TO: R35b

2025-03-26 17:41 cd

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc AM food 10g

2025-03-26 17:38 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 169 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 dk m c/u TOTAL
Increase if NOLO

Both BAR, standing. NOLO, mutes++. Tweezer fed a couple pieces each and dropped rest
of food in two piles.

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[26934] / L / UNK - Standing in front. Nibbling at puppet as I was dropping FIC;
tweezer fed ~15g.
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - Standing in back, hissed a little. Accepted one piece
of tweezer feed as I dropped a pile in front of him.

2025-03-26 12:19 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 51 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, some scattered LOs.

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[26934] / L / UNK - standing in back, hissing
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - laying down in back, refused to eat from puppet

2025-03-26 09:12 RMB
Weight: 935 grams, Leftovers: 5
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 144 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh in AM

BAR, 5 g LO. TF all but about 5 bites for each bird.

2025-03-25 17:22 MS

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increase FIC by 10 g

2025-03-25 17:20 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 143 g m/ck c/u

Both BAR, standing. NOLO. Usually, no color is the more hostile one, vice versa today.

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[26934] / L / UNK - Very vocal and enthusiastic towards puppet, even though puppet
didn't enter kennel
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - Clacky and hissing

2025-03-25 12:29 SC

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 50g m/FL c/u

Dk blue was laying on a food pile and no color was in the back. No color took a few
pieces of food but dk blue wasn't interest. left LO from AM and added food from miiday

2025-03-25 09:45 SC
Weight: 907 grams, Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 125g 1/2 fl and 1/2 c/u m

BAR and mobile. Hissing and clacking

2025-03-24 17:31 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 146 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u TOTAL in two piles

Both BAR, hissing. NOLO. Did not get fed midday. Gave each a bit of food as tweezer
feed and both readily accepted. Dropped food in separate piles in front of each.

2025-03-24 17:31 cd

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increased AM fic

2025-03-24 08:45 SC
Weight: 919 grams, Leftovers: 5
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 101 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) total
5 g LO

2025-03-23 18:11 JB
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 35g + 34g 1/2 FL + 31g + 32g 1/2 m/ck c/u PER BIRD
Increase if NOLO

Larger baby in front of kennel, "blue" in back, both clacky and excited about food.

2025-03-23 09:07 cd
Weight: 892 grams
Weight change: +17 g (2 %)

2025-03-23 08:29 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 108 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) TOTAL in two piles

BAR, both huddled in back. Dropped food in two piles. NOLO.

2025-03-22 18:02 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 130 g 1/2 + 1/3 c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, standing in the back together. NOLO seen.

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[26934] / L / UNK - quiet, curious
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - hissing/clacking

2025-03-22 13:41 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Tweezer feed: 42 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, standing at the front of the kennel, huddled together.

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[26934] / L / UNK - gular fluttering, hissing and clacking whole time
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - also fluttering, but very eager to take food, reaching
neck to reach tweezers

2025-03-22 08:40 cd

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 90 g ck c/u TOTAL
Increase if NOLO
Weigh in AM

NOLO, both BAR, hissing & clacking. Dk blue was vocalizing this morning before treatment.
Weighed and cleaned, then came back and dropped food with puppet. Dk blue accepted
half of food as TF, eyed FIC pile but did not start eating yet. Neither gained much
weight.

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

2025-03-22 08:10 cd
Weight: 875 grams
Weight change: +2 g (0 %)

2025-03-21 17:53 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 101 g ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR. Some scattered LOs, left them there.

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[26934] / L / UNK - hissing and clacking, in back corner
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - in front, against door. very curious, staring at food
once dropped.

2025-03-21 13:25 me

Tweezer fed a few pieces of LO's with camo/puppet
Quite a bit LO
Bird in back of kennel with "Blue" close by but not huddled together

2025-03-21 09:16 SC
Weight: 873 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +12 g (1 %)
Food: 79g g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, hissing and clacking. Sitting at the front of the kennel. Cleaned. Tweezer fed a few pieces w/ puppet and camo. Left most of FIC

2025-03-20 17:10 ME
Leftovers: 41
Food: added 45 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
41 g LO - left in kennel
Not interested in TF

2025-03-20 09:40 ME
Weight: 861 grams, Leftovers: 71
Weight change: -1 g (0 %)
Food: 80 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezerfed ~ 10 pieces of the above food, at that point bird backed away from puppet
71 g LO - all accessible and near bird
BAR, standing near kennel door

Try tweezefeeding more in pm?

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Lower pm food amount

2025-03-19 17:57 MS

Food: 128 g 1/2 m + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, hissing and clacking, charged at my hand. Small pile of LOs, left there.

2025-03-19 09:30 RMB
Weight: 862 grams, Leftovers: 80
Weight change: +18 g (2 %)
Food: 78 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh
Switch to: BID

BAR,80 g LO,

2025-03-18 18:23 MS

Food: 124 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u

BAR, hissing and gular fluttering. Looks like midday food pile is untouched. Left prepped PM food in cage, bird backed away as I did that. Time to cut back?

2025-03-18 12:00 MS

Food: 77 g 1/2 m + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing at front of kennel, hissing. Had 50 g LO, left those in there

2025-03-18 09:24 sc
Weight: 844 grams, Leftovers: 41
Weight change: +47 g (6 %)
Food: 80 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (PM 120-125g) (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, a fair bit of LO (41g). Cleaned and offered TF. Very defensive, only able to TF a piece. Left rest of fic

2025-03-17 17:25 cd
Leftovers: 19
Food: 123g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing in front corner, clacking & hissing. Dropped all food and left midday FIC in with new pile. Removed 19g LO from morning meal.

2025-03-17 12:09 cd

Food: ~57g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: ~25g

BAR, sitting in front. Looks like he ate quite a bit of AM food. Tweezer fed around 1/3 of midday amount before he started backing further into kennel and would not accept more. Left AM & rest of midday food in kennel.

2025-03-17 09:03 sc
Weight: 797 grams, Leftovers: 1
Weight change: +11 g (1 %)
Food: 82 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, sitting in the front of the kennel. Weigh gain is less significant than desired. Opted to TF meal this morning to see if he was interested. Ate almost whole meal via TF, left a small pile as FIC.


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Increase food in PM

2025-03-16 17:59 me
Leftovers: 4
Food: 99 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
2 pc LO

2025-03-16 13:50 me

FL food gone, M pieces LO - Tweezerfed all but 4 pieces with puppet

2025-03-16 11:00 cd/cpr

Food: 75 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, hissing & clacking, sitting on hocks. Food was dropped a bit late this morning, will push back TF

2025-03-16 08:12 cd
Weight: 786 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +40 g (5 %)
BAR, sitting on hocks then got up and postured, hissing & clacking. Weighed & cleaned kennel. NOLO.

2025-03-15 17:34 MS

Food: 107 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing, hissing at puppet. A small amount of LO's at front of kennel, was able to puppet feed that. Offered some of the prepped PM FIC, but baby started backing away to back of kennel and gular flapping. Dropped all.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
switch to 1/2 + 1/2

2025-03-15 12:33 cd

Checked on - AM food untouched. Stressed but would accept food right in front of him and swallow readily, and calmed down about halfway through feeding. Tweezer fed around 50g until he stopped accepting food. Left rest in, moved pile a little closer to him.

2025-03-15 11:31 CPR

Fecal
Collection date2025-03-15
ResultsNEG

2025-03-15 08:00 cd
Weight: 746 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +15 g (2 %)
Food: 105 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, sitting on hocks, hissing and clacking. NOLO, mutes++. Grabbed to weigh & clean kennel, dropped food a little bit later. Fed high this morning to hopefully help weight gain and collected another fecal sample for a recheck.

2025-03-14 17:30 cd
Leftovers: 15
Food: ~85-90 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: ~15-20g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, sitting back on hocks, mouth open, hissing. 15g whole fl ck LO. Tweezer fed around 15-20g to account for ck lo - accepted and swallowed food well. Left rest of food.

2025-03-14 12:45 MS

FF about half of the AM LO's before baby got too stressed. One large FL ck in there, left it.

2025-03-14 09:05 sc
Weight: 731 grams, Leftovers: 2
Weight change: +30 g (4 %)
Food: 81 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Sitting in the back, but quick to stand and turn around. Only 1 piece of LO. Moved to a kennel with a heating pad. Left AM food as FIC, will plan to tweezer feed at midday if food is LO.


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Plan to increase food in PM and lower am food
switch to BID
Tweezer feed midday as needed

2025-03-13 17:42 me
Leftovers: 40
Food: 80 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
About 40 g LO - tweezer fed half of it with puppet & camo, removed rest

2025-03-13 14:48 MS

Per finder, parents are still outside vocalizing. Possibility that bird will be renested soon. Awaiting update from MH on whether nest is visible.

2025-03-13 13:00 MS
Leftovers: 19
Food: 41 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Puppet feed: 44 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing in back hissing. Aggressive towards puppet, lunged at it at first. AM LO's were covered in mutes, so offered some of prepped midday. Refused after a while. Dropped the rest.

2025-03-13 09:00 SC
Weight: 701 grams
Food: 86 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh
Move to - kennel w/ heating pad switch to?
Monitor temperature in inc

2025-03-12 17:00 MS

Food: ~70 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing in back corner. Not as aggressive towards puppet tonight as last night. Accepted midday LO's from puppet and some of FIC. Dropped rest.

2025-03-12 14:20 DM

Fecal
Collection date2025-03-12
ResultsNEG
Fecal
Collection date2025-03-12
ResultsNEG

2025-03-12 12:17 RMB
Leftovers: 0
Food: 81g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)


BAR, NOLO, Clacky

2025-03-12 08:56 SC
Weight: 642 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +40 g (7 %)
Food: 70 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh
Fecal

Collected fecal during cleaning. NOLO. The a few pieces but the bird was very aggressive and stressed during feeding, only TF a few pieces. Left a majority of food as FIC


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Stop TF
Increase food TID

2025-03-11 18:12 MS
Leftovers: 0
Food: ~52 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: 8 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Very BAR, feisty, gular flapping. Lunged at puppet, but still accepted all TF. Fed the few pieces of LO's and some pieces of FIC before bird refused. Turned down the incubator to 1. Going to remove puppet from line of sight for the evening.

2025-03-11 12:24 RMB
Leftovers: 1
Food: 58 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: 9 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Very BAR, clacky. Lots mutes. Standing on paper in back corner and had mat scrunched up, fixed. Ate very well and left FIC. There was one bite from breakfast that was LO.

2025-03-11 08:55 sc
Weight: 602 grams, Leftovers: 2
Weight change: +11 g (2 %)
Food: 66g FL c/u (vit/ca)
Fecal - unable to get one, dried out will try later today
Monitor temperature - bird seems content with incubator temp

BAR, sitting in the back. 1 piece of dried out LO and one huge pellet. Cleaned and tweezer fed about 10-15g and left the rest as FIC. A little stressed at the start of feeding but ate readily with the last few pieces of food.


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
2% weight gain - increase food tid

2025-03-10 17:49 cd

Food: 25g FL c/u B (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: 35g FL c/u B (+ vit + Ca)
Monitor temperature

Sitting/leaning forward. One or two pieces of food LO. Hissing & clacking at puppet at first, then started accepting food and calmed down. TF a little over half of food and left rest in.

2025-03-10 14:01 sc

checked on with camo, bird is now facing the front and closer to the door. the food left in the incubator is either gone or he is laying on it.

plan for more FIC in PM over TF if nolo

2025-03-10 11:50 sc

Tweezer fed with puppet 56g FL. He was stressed and leaning over during the feeding but still took pieces readily. 3 pieces were left at the end. Opted to leave as FIC.

2025-03-10 11:31 sc
Weight: 591 grams, Keel score: 2.0
Seen last night on the ground. There again. Raptor Rescuers looked for nest and could not find one.
------------- PHYSICAL EXAM FINDINGS ----------------
Head
Behavior and Neuro: BAR
Ears: clean
Body
Vent: clean
Wings
Left wing: WNL
Right wing: WNL
Legs
Left leg: WNL
Right leg: WNL
Feathers: Feathers are starting to emerge in blood, about an inche exposed
Ectoparasites: none seen

Exam notes: Quiet when we opened the box but BAR during treatment. Sat on hocks during exam and hissed and clacked beak. No injuries found. Placed in KR incubator

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