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Admission date2025-04-16
Final date -
Days in captivity2
SpeciesBLVU - Black vulture
AgeL
SexUNK
StatusReh
Bandyellow
NSF

Cause of injury: kidnapped

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

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

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate218.2036.40
Total  156.40

Costs are estimates based on fees charged at a local avian specialist.
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2025-04-18 18:48 sc

Group entry: 2 animals
sleeping when i went to feed. between both they ate 19g, left the other 2 smeared
on their towel

2025-04-18 14:17 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours
Weigh SID

21g Minced FL TOTAL. Very BAR. Food distributed evenly between both babies. Green
BLVU actively follows food and tries to take food out of yellow's mouth.

2025-04-18 12:01 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours
Weigh SID

18g Minced food given. BAR very alert and responsive. Slight competition for food
between the babies, though both were standing and walking towards the food during
the feeding.
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[26998] / green / L / UNK - fed ~8g
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - fed ~10g

2025-04-18 08:31 sc
Weight: 103 grams
Group entry: 2 animals
16g FL minced total for the group


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[26998] / green / L / UNK - Ate some but not super interested
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - Much more eager to feed than green


2025-04-17 18:04 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours

Both BR, each took a few grams. 6 g eaten. Left 35 g on a tilted food bowl.

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[26998] / green / L / UNK -
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - much more eager to eat this time, flung food at the
end.

2025-04-17 17:39 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours

Both making soft vocalizations, huddled together. Going to try feeding one last time
at 6. Discussed with SC to try leaving FIC tonight instead of an 8 PM feeding.

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[26998] / green / L / UNK - slightly bullying yellow, much more eager to eat.
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK -

2025-04-17 15:20 RMB

Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours

20 g Fl (vit + CA)
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[26998] / green / L / UNK - Ate well, a little less than half the full amount
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - Ate very well, ate more than half the full amount.
Push green out of the way to get to the cup.

2025-04-17 13:03 RMB

Group entry: 2 animals
Minced food in small cup - every 2-3 hours


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[26998] / green / L / UNK - ate 9 g quickly, very BAR, vocal
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - ate 4 g slowly, left 2 gin front of him on the side
of the nest. A little less BAR and a little less vocal than green


2025-04-17 10:50 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Smashed food in small cup - every 2-3 hours

Both sleeping.

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[26998] / green / L / UNK - ate about 5 g food
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - Took one small piece of food, started biting at sibling

2025-04-17 09:17 sc
Weight: 75 grams, Leftovers: 5
Group entry: 2 animals
11g FL c/u tiny

both birds got some food but it is so hard to tell what is eaten and what is flung
around. the incubator was blowing cool air so we move them to the newer incubator
which will be more reliable. Upgraded bowl too.

May need to separate when eating if yellow isn't gaining weight

2025-04-16 18:25 cd

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: ~5g each
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[26998] / green / L / UNK - Sleeping in back of bowl nest until I offered food, then
ate eagerly.
[26999] / yellow / L / UNK - Perked up quickly, ate first, vocalizing.

2025-04-16 14:45 RMB

Group entry: 2 animals
Ate around 6 g. Green only had few bites before falling asleep. Yellow ate most
of the protion

2025-04-16 13:02 RMB

Group entry: 2 animals
Both babies ate from cup when held high and angled down. Total of 8 g was eaten
from cup. Both were very vocal during feeding. Green was a little more agressive
than yellow.

After feeding, took babies out and cleaned faces and removed dropped food from down.
Moved incubator into KR2.

2025-04-16 11:19 RMB

Force feed: Would not eat out of the syringe. A few pieces landed on his brothers back and he ate those. Was able to get him to eat 5-7 g from edge of nest. Turned away when he was done.

This guy was laying outside of nest in front of incubator when I first came in. Was very quiet.

STAFF ONLY

2025-04-16 09:45 SC

Band changed to: yellow

2025-04-16 09:45 SC
Weight: 76 grams
Brought in last night late and placed in an incubator in ISO. Original weight was 80, today is down to 76.

Eye are barely open and an egg tooth is still present. Attempted to tweezer feed but there were signs that he would respond better to eating out of something (like mom's mouth) so I placed minced/smashed food into a 20cc syringe with soaked cotton balls in the base. I used a paper clip to push the food forward as they ate. Each baby ate a small amount of food and then went back to sleep.

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