Saludos amantes de las aves, en esta publicación les traigo una experiencia que tuve tratando de ayudar a una tortolita que se cayo de su nido.
Acostumbro bajar a Isis, nuestra perrita, todos los días para que camine, lleve sol y haga sus necesidades. Hay muchos árboles en ese lugar y me encontré con un pichón de tortolita en la base del árbol. Estaba muy asustada y trataba de esconderse. Hay muchos gatos por allí, debe haber tenido poco tiempo de haberse caído porque se la hubieran comido.
La agarre y ella le daba a sus alitas pero aun no volaba, la lleve a la casa con la esperanza de que se recuperara y siguiera su desarrollo hasta que pudiera volar . Busqué una cajita donde colocarla y le puse unas franelas viejas para protegerla del frío. Ella trató de salir y caminó rápido, y se escondió detrás de los muebles.
El primer día, mi hija que estudia veterinaria, la revisó y aparentemente no tenía heridas y todavía tenía plumones en la cabeza, en el pecho y debajo de las alas. Tenían que salir sus plumas en esos lugares.
¿Qué darle de comer y cómo dárselo?.
Esto es algo delicado cuando se trata de aves, porque hay que saber de que se alimentan, algunas esecies comen insectos, frutos y otras semillas. Busque por internet información, algunos videos explicaban como hacerlo, ella o él no estaba tan pichona como para darle el alimento muy líquido y ya tomaba agua sola. Estas aves comen semillas y de acuerdo a lo que mi hija me dijo y unos amigos veterinarios a los que consulte comencé a darle maíz picado remojado en agua durante la noche, para ablandarlo y también arroz cocido, por supuesto no comía sola y yo se lo daba dentro del pico con mucho cuidado para no ahogarla.
El maíz me parecía que le gustaba pero el arroz era muy pegostoso y creo que le ablandó las heces. De acuerdo a lo que averigue, el color y la consistencia de las heces son un indicativo de si todo va bien, porque deberían ser un verde oscuro o marrón con blanco y de consistencia un poco dura. Así eran cuando llegó, pero con los días comenzó a hacer más aguado y verde claro.- Yo me preocupé por lo que veía y no le di más arroz pero comencé a darle avena y alpiste para variar la alimentación.
Todos los días la alimentaba tres veces al día.
Tratar de mantenerla en calor.
En la mañana la ponía al sol y ella se quedaba allí muy quietecita y a veces se montaba en algunas cosas aleteando, como por ejemlo sobre el nacimiento, esto nos alegró porque pensábamos que estaba fortaleciéndose y cuando terminaran de le salirle las plumas podría volar. Era nuestra esperanza
Pero fuimos viendo con tristeza que con los días a pesar de que ya hacía intentos de picotear el alimento, se fue debilitando hasta que una mañana, a la semana de haberla llevado a la casa, murió en mis manos.
¿Qué pasó?, no lo sabemos, es posible que la alimentación no fuera la más adecuada, o que se haya golpeado al caer del nido o que necesitaba de su mamá y del calor de los hermanos en el nido para sobrevivir. La madre sabe que alimento debe darle a sus crías, cuánto y cómo dárselo,y sabe en qué momento deben volar y dejar el nido y es muy difícil simular sus cuidados. A pesar de todos nuestros esfuerzos no pudimos mantenerla con vida.
Reflexionado sobre esta experiencia que no ha sido la primera tratando de criar pichones de pájaros y palomas,que se han caído del nido, diría que muy pocos han sobrevivido y las razones son principalmente biológicas. Aun cuando existen videos donde se muestran experiencias positivas hay una realidad que es difícil de superar. Como dijo un médico veterinario al cual le consultamos sobre la posibilidad de salvar a la tortolita, su respuesta fue muy natural y algunos al leerla pensaran que fue insensible .
Cuando un pichón se cae del nido puede ser por varias razones, pero entre estas es posible que no esté apto para sobrevivir. La naturaleza es muy sabia y al agarrar ese pichón que se ha caído, estamos impidiendo que otro animal se lo coma, un alimento que puede ser necesario para su supervivencia, es la ley de la naturaleza.
Pero a pesar de esta explicación tan lógica, está la sensibilidad, el tratar en lo posible de ayudar a una vida que está en peligro, creo que esto es algo instintivo. No podía dejarlo allí, sabía que los gatos no tardarían mucho en encontrarlo y quise darle una oportunidad. Y me consuela pensar que murió en un lugar donde le dimos cuidados y cariño. No murió solo y en las garras de un felino.
Muchas gracias por leer y si tienen alguna experiencia en el rescate de pichones que me pueda ayudar a saber como cuidarlos, le agradeceria que me lo hicieran saber en los comentarios.
Greetings bird lovers, in this publication I bring you an experience I had trying to help a lovebird that fell from its nest.
I take Isis, our dog, down every day to walk, sunbathe and relieve herself. There are a lot of trees in that place and I found a baby lovebird at the base of the tree. It was very scared and was trying to hide. There are a lot of cats around there, she must have had a short time to fall because they would have eaten her.
I grabbed her and she was flapping her wings but still not flying, I took her to the house hoping that she would recover and continue her development until she could fly. I looked for a little box to put her in and put some old flannels to protect her from the cold. She tried to get out and walked fast, and hid behind the furniture.
The first day my daughter, who is studying veterinary medicine, checked her and apparently she had no wounds and still had down on her head and chest, and under her wings, her feathers had to come out in those places.
What to feed her and how to feed her.
This is something delicate when it comes to birds, because you have to know what they eat, some especies eat insects, fruits and other seeds.I searched the internet for information, some videos explained how to do it, she or he was not so chubby to give her very liquid food and she was already drinking water by herself. These birds eat seeds and according to what my daughter told me and some veterinary doctor friends I consulted I started to give her chopped corn, soaked in water overnight, to soften it and also cooked rice. Of course she did not eat alone and I gave it to her inside her beak very carefully so as not to drown her.
I thought she liked the corn but the rice was very sticky and I think it softened her stool. From what I found out, the color and consistency of the stool is an indication of whether everything is going well, because they should be a dark green or brown with white and a bit hard in consistency. That's how they were when she arrived, but as the days went by she started making them more watery and light green - I became concerned about what I was seeing and didn't give her any more rice but started giving her oatmeal and birdseed to vary the food.
Every day I fed her three times a day.
I tried to keep her warm.
In the morning I would put her in the sun and she would stand there very still and sometimes she would ride on some things flapping her wings, this made us happy because we thought she was getting stronger and when her feathers came out she would be able to fly. That was my hope.
But we were sad to see that as the days went by, even though she was trying to peck at food, she became weaker and weaker until one morning, a week after we brought her home, she died in my hands.
What happened? We do not know, it is possible that the feeding was not the most adequate, or that she was hit when she fell or that she needed her mother and the warmth of her siblings in the nest to survive. The mother knows what food to give her young, how much and how to give it to them, and she knows when they should fly and leave the nest and it is very difficult to simulate her care. Despite all our efforts we could not keep her alive.
Reflecting on this experience, which was not the first time I have tried to raise chicks of birds and pigeons that have fallen out of the nest, I would say that very few have survived and the reasons are mainly biological. Even though there are videos where positive experiences are shown, there is a reality that is difficult to overcome. As a veterinarian we consulted about the possibility of saving the turtledove said, his answer was very natural and some may think it was insensitive.
When a chick falls out of the nest it may be for several reasons, but among these it is possible that it is not fit to survive. Nature is very wise and by catching that chick that has fallen, we are preventing another animal eat it, a food that may be necessary for its survival, it is the law of nature.
But despite this very logical explanation, there is the sensitivity, trying as much as possible to help a life that is in danger, I think this is something instinctive. I could not leave him there, I knew that the cats would not take long to find him and I wanted to give him a chance. And it comforts me to think that he died in a place where we gave him care and love and he didn't die alone and in the claws of a feline.
Thank you very much for reading and if you have any experience in rescuing chicks that can help me know how to care for them, I would appreciate it if you could let me know in the comments.
Todas las fotografías son de mi autoria y las tome con un teléfono Samsung S6 edge/All pictures are my own and were taken with a Samsung S6 edge phone.
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