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Admission date2025-03-20
Final date -
Days in captivity14
SpeciesGHOW - Great horned owl
AgeL
SexUNK
StatusReh
Band
NSF

Cause of injury: Fell from nest

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

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

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate1415.40215.60
Fecal exam162.0062.00
Total  397.60

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

2025-03-20

2025-03-20

2025-03-20
2025-04-02 17:33 jh/cd
Leftovers: 0
Food: 52 g m c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 40 g m c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, sitting in back corner.
TF small pile of LOs but refused the new TF food. Left new TF with FIC

2025-04-02 12:23 cd

Huddled in back. Stood up and clacked a little when I approached slowly with puppet, but accepted food eagerly and settled down. Accepted around half of AM LOs before refusing. Moved the rest of the pile closer to him and left.

2025-04-02 10:00 RN
Weight: 806 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +43 g (6 %)
Food: 50-55 g m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 40-45 g m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, clacking, vocalizations, TF well, hungry, NOLO

2025-04-01 17:09 sc

Food: 98 g m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet

All food from am is left. Fed with puppet and tweezers. he stood up really tall for the puppet and are all the LO from the AM. Left all food as FIC

2025-04-01 10:02 CPR/SC
Weight: 763 grams, Leftovers: 0
Food: 100 g ck c/u

NOLO and BAR
MOVED TO: R35b
BAR. hissing, clacking, and kicking when picked up for move. dropped food in kennel.

2025-03-31 17:32 cd
Leftovers: 0
Food: 55 g m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 42 g m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing against front, NOLO. Accepted all prepped TF and rejected any more. Dropped all FIC. Was going to increase FIC but it looks like he only got 30g FIC this AM.

2025-03-31 09:22 LT
Weight: 731 grams, Leftovers: 4
Food: 30 g ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 46 g ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh- 731 g


Baby was alert, active, and responsive to the puppet. 47 g ck successfully tweezer fed using camo and puppet. Remaining ck placed in enclosure. 4 g lo collected.

2025-03-30 17:09 JB
Leftovers: 48
Food: 51g c/u ck
Tweezer feed: 44 g c/u ck -- only took a few pieces of tweezer feed but was eager at that point. Then seemed to become suspicious of puppet and started backing away, at which point I stopped attempting and left the rest of the food.

2025-03-30 13:18 cd

Tried tweezer feeding food from AM - not interested. Huddled in back corner, hissed at puppet; maybe just too dark to see well. Tried a few times but did not accept food. Moved pile closer to him.

2025-03-30 09:26 fm/cd
Weight: 720 grams, Leftovers: 20
Weight change: +12 g (2 %)
Food: 75g m c/u
Tweezer feed: 34g m c/u

BAR with some clacking. fed with camo and puppet.
53g total TF
56g FIC

2025-03-30 09:01 cd
Weight: 720 grams, Leftovers: 20
Weight change: +12 g (2 %)
Weighed, cleaned kennel. Not up much in weight but removed 20g LO, little scattered.

2025-03-29 18:01 MS


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
doesn't seem as interested in puppet, eating more independently
Switch to BID tomorrow
Switch to fully furred food

2025-03-29 17:07 CPR
Leftovers: 18
Food: 93 g ck 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR. sitting in front corner of kennel. would not accept tweezer feed. stood up and backed away a couple steps when offered food. dropped food in kennel. 18 g Lo

2025-03-29 16:34 MS

Revisited the nest site. No activity. Nest appears to have been slightly destroyed, plastic bag tangled in branches where there used to be more sticks. Unless we learn of another active nest, baby will continue to stay in care.

2025-03-29 13:30 MS

Tweezer feed: LOs Use camo and puppet

AM LOs untouched. Baby was laying down, sleeping in the back. Woke up, stretched and accepted about 1/2 of LOs from AM. Refused the rest.

2025-03-29 09:22 kmj/cd
Weight: 708 grams, Leftovers: 38
Weight change: +30 g (4 %)
Food: ~77 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~20 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, standing in front corner. 38g LO removed. Weighed, cleaned kennel. Accepted about half of prepped TF before stopping; left the rest as FIC in front of him.

2025-03-28 17:50 MS

Food: 95 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet

QAR, standing pressed against door where puppet is. Refused to tweezer feed. Did positively interact with puppet. Small pile of LOs near front left.

2025-03-28 12:30 MS

Food: 64 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet

Per Dr. G, baby refused to eat. Dropped food. No notes otherwise.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increase FIC, decrease FF

2025-03-28 09:00 MS
Weight: 678 grams, Leftovers: 2
Weight change: +24 g (4 %)
Food: 23 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 56 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

No notes recorded

2025-03-27 17:54 MS

Food: 88 g 1/2 m/ck + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet

BAR, standing, clacking. Some scattered pieces of LOs, left there. Refused to take from puppet, backed away.

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

2025-03-27 12:34 CPR
Leftovers: 0
Food: 64 g FL c/u
Tweezer feed: 21 g FL c/u

BAR. sitting at front o cage with mouth open. attempted to tweezer feed. baby ate one piece and was full. Dropped rest of food in kennel. NoLo.

2025-03-27 09:15 RMB
Weight: 654 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +84 g (15 %)
Food: 25 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 60 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh
BAR, pull food from puppets beak. Fell asleep at end of TF. NOLO

2025-03-26 17:30 cd

Food: ~48 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~35 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, standing, stretched. Small pieces of scattered LO. Tweezer fed some of those, around 5-10g. Rest were too dried out. Accepted a little over half of prepped tf so dropped the rest with FIC.

2025-03-26 12:18 MS

Food: ~70 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~15 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, started vocalizing to puppet once towel was lifted. A few pieces scattered in incubator. Enthusiastically ate at first, then abruptly refused more.

2025-03-26 09:10 RMB
Weight: 570 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +46 g (9 %)
Food: 20 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 59 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, Started food calling as soon as walked in door. Tried taking food from beak of puppet immediately, focused in on puppet. NOLO

2025-03-25 17:23 MS

In touch with tree climber about renesting. Will scout nest this evening.

2025-03-25 17:15 MS

Food: 45 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 12 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

QAR, standing at front of incubator. Didn't have much interest in the puppet, accepted 12 out of 57 g prepped food. A few pieces of LOs at baby's feet, left there. Needs more food, only FIC was prepped.

2025-03-25 12:30 SC
Leftovers: 0
Food: 70g FL c/u tweezer fed a majority of the meal and left around 10g again as FIC. NOLO from am

2025-03-25 09:23 SC
Weight: 524 grams, Leftovers: 2
Weight change: +17 g (3 %)
Food: 10 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 59 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, moving around well in inc. Hardly any LO. Strong feeding response with tweezers and puppet.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Increase FIC

2025-03-24 17:10 cd
Leftovers: 0
Food: ~38 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~56 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, sitting in front. NOLO. Tweezer fed all of prepared food very eagerly so I used up two ck left in fridge for more fl - ate about another 10g then stopped. Left rest as FIC.

2025-03-24 10:30 SC

Tried TF again - no interest; sprayed few pieces left with water

2025-03-24 08:45 SC/ME
Weight: 507 grams, Leftovers: 37
Weight change: -10 g (2 %)
Food: 12 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: only took 8 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
37 g LO

2025-03-23 18:09 JB
Leftovers: 35
Food: 13 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 58 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Quiet vocalizations prior to eating. Ate ~1/3 of tweezer feed then refused. Left the rest. Will need a towel change in near future when no being fed. Attempted to remove as much leftovers from earlier today as possible without disturbing bird.

2025-03-23 13:58 CPR
Leftovers: 41
Tweezer feed: 56 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR. sitting with mouth open. ate first piece of food but refused the rest. Dropped food in cage. 41 g Lo from morning

2025-03-23 09:07 cd
Weight: 517 grams, Leftovers: 37
Weight change: +31 g (6 %)
Food: 42 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 44 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

Tweezer fed around half of prepared amount until he refused. Not as eager to eat as previous feedings. Dropped rest as FIC. All of last night's food LO.

2025-03-22 18:03 MS

Food: 37 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 34 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, hissing and clacking at first. Refused food after a while, so dropped the rest.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increase FIC

2025-03-22 13:40 MS

Tweezer feed: 42 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, sitting in nest. Hissing at first, but eagerly took everything from puppet.

2025-03-22 12:23 CPR

Fecal
Collection date2025-03-22
ResultsNEG

2025-03-22 08:45 cd
Weight: 486 grams, Leftovers: 5
Weight change: +32 g (7 %)
Food: ~8g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 80 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh

BAR, clacked at towel moving. Cleaned incubator and weighed then came back with food. Tweezer fed eagerly, diving at puppet for food. Accepted all prepped TF plus an extra ck worth of FL, left ~8g FIC to attempt self feeding. Couple pieces of LO dried and stuck to towel.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc TF - shift amounts if NOLO at midday

2025-03-21 17:52 MS

Food: ~15 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~40 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR, facing the back. Hissing and clacking as soon as door was touched. Spun next around to feed. I think bird seemed more hostile towards tweezers rather than puppet. Refused more food from puppet after ~40 g, dropped the rest of prepped TF and FIC.

2025-03-21 13:10 me

Tweezer feed: 54 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
- ate eagerly with tweezer/camo/puppet

2025-03-21 09:18 SC
Weight: 454 grams, Leftovers: 8
Weight change: +16 g (4 %)
Food: 47 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Weigh

QAR in incubator, more BAR when weighed. Moved to the normal incubator. Most of the LO were not reachable outside of the donut. Tweezer fed his whole meal with camo and puppet.


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
start leaving some FIC

2025-03-20 17:11 ME

Food: Nothing new added
TF: 32 g FL c/u + Vit & Ca with camo & puppet
Lots LO - left it in incubator

2025-03-20 13:10 MS

Food: 29 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Tweezer feed: 27 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use puppet and camo
Fecal

BAR, sitting in donut, facing the back the whole time. Very eager to eat then refused more after 27 g. Dropped the rest.

2025-03-20 12:50 MS
Weight: 438 grams, Keel score: 2.0

------------- PHYSICAL EXAM FINDINGS ----------------
Head
Behavior and Neuro: BAR
Mouth: clear
Ears: dirty
Body
Spine: clear
Vent: clear
Body condition score: 2
Wings
Left wing: No fx palpated, full extension
Right wing: No fx palpated, full extension
Legs
Left leg: No fx palpated, full extension
Right leg: No fx palpated, full extension
Feathers: fluffy down
Left remiges: all IB, #7 slightly broken open, bleeding
Right remiges: all IB
Ectoparasites: none seen

Baby GHOW found at base of tree, nest visible ~30-35 ft up. No access to get that high, so we brought baby in for evaluation. NSF on PE besides cracked L primary feather. Lightly scrubbed with peroxide. Set up in KR2 incubator with towels and donut. May try to contact tree climbers for renesting.

TREATMENTS GIVEN
10 ml LRS SQ in back

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