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Wow Tom, I have been away from the forums for a long while (excruciatingly busy on all fronts) and just found this thread! HOW EXCITING! I still have two naughty Wild Cherry babies that are just too beautiful to give up on and I am going to start hunting down some tiny baby birds. Your little girl is even more precious considering that I have not gotten Wild Cherry herself to breed this season and it looking less hopeful that that will occur. I have to admit I laughed and laughed reading this thread since your Jubilee sounds just as stubborn as some of her siblings, including the learning how to spit out mouse tails trick. On the other hand, one of my keeper females from that clutch has always eaten like a pig and is now 57 grams.
 
poppycorn said:
Wow Tom, I have been away from the forums for a long while (excruciatingly busy on all fronts) and just found this thread! HOW EXCITING! I still have two naughty Wild Cherry babies that are just too beautiful to give up on and I am going to start hunting down some tiny baby birds. Your little girl is even more precious considering that I have not gotten Wild Cherry herself to breed this season and it looking less hopeful that that will occur. I have to admit I laughed and laughed reading this thread since your Jubilee sounds just as stubborn as some of her siblings, including the learning how to spit out mouse tails trick. On the other hand, one of my keeper females from that clutch has always eaten like a pig and is now 57 grams.
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Thanks! I didn't even post on this weeks feeding (Saturday). She took two pinks on her own, and I only had to rub them on bird poop, lol. Don't ask me how that makes them more appealing, but she ignored them before and then leapt right on 'em after, lol. I tell you, I can do this forever if needed. If there's one thing my birds make faster than little birds, it's poop.
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This is exciting and funny! Congrats on getting her feeding! I really got a kick out of this thread! I hope you don't mind, but I am gonna file this in the back of the drawer, just in case!

Wayne
 
Marsha, since you've been away a while, you might not know that many people are reporting success by scenting with both raw chicken juice and cooked KFC fat drippings.
 
BobbyHill said:
LMAO. Wow. Bird poop. I'm speechless.
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I know it sounds crazy, but the idea came to me 1. out of desperation since I was out of little birds, and 2. because of tyfliers experience with scenting mice not with actual lizards, but with very dirty bedding which he found worked better. In my mind, that's probably where the most scent is coming from with dirty bedding of any animal. :puke02:
Also there wasn't much on there to be honest, I offered the pinks as they were, and she fled. Then I just sort of wiped it against a dried portion of bird stuff. Not much was even on the pink but a dusty white bit of urates, lol. But the reaction from her was night and day that time.
I don't think it's going to take much more of this strange treatment. She's getting closer and closer to mice with every meal!
 
I have been using dirty bedding from deer mice to rub on pinkies with good success for the past several years. So it doesn't surprise me too much. But since I don't keep live birds, but do keep some baby chicks in the freezer, I will sometimes stick a feather or two on a pink, or cut open a chick and rub the insides on the pink, with occasional success on hatchlings that won't eat anything else.
 
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