Is this an Australian magpie? If so, you're letting yourself in for at least a year of hand feeding finely chopped mince: I've seen year old adults still screaming at their parents to be fed.
I assume you've googled to find out what her diet should be? Minced meat sounds fine but you may need to add other things to it if she's to be healthy
Yep it is, and I don't really mind, a few years back some kids were messing about and knocked down a swallows nest, unfortunately one died so I had to raise the other two myself.
Yeah, I found some good recipes to feed magpies, I'll probably stick to feeding her mince meat/insectivore mix/and rice or grains.
Good onya, keep up the good work! I love magpies except when they swoop me and love it when i wake up early enough to hear them carolling just before sunrise, as I did this morning. What I can't work out about them is that they're intelligent birds but they swoop my dog when they're nesting and she can't climb trees to get their eggs or babies! Neither could I for that matter but I understand they see all humans as potential nest robbers, but why dogs? Do they also swoop cows, horses, etc? Just wondering....
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I live in a rural place on a farm and there's no vet center or animal center anywhere. I fed Maggy some mince meat and she is quiet now.
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Is this an Australian magpie? If so, you're letting yourself in for at least a year of hand feeding finely chopped mince: I've seen year old adults still screaming at their parents to be fed.
I assume you've googled to find out what her diet should be? Minced meat sounds fine but you may need to add other things to it if she's to be healthy
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Yep it is, and I don't really mind, a few years back some kids were messing about and knocked down a swallows nest, unfortunately one died so I had to raise the other two myself.
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Good onya, keep up the good work! I love magpies except when they swoop me and love it when i wake up early enough to hear them carolling just before sunrise, as I did this morning. What I can't work out about them is that they're intelligent birds but they swoop my dog when they're nesting and she can't climb trees to get their eggs or babies! Neither could I for that matter but I understand they see all humans as potential nest robbers, but why dogs? Do they also swoop cows, horses, etc? Just wondering....
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They are thieves themselves, probably why the paranoia on their behalf xD
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Thieves?