Photographer and OC by @anon6789@lemmy.world
We’ve picked up a third crow in our outdoor pen, but the one biggie still acts like a little one.
I couldn’t get it to make the baby begging dance while I had my phone out, but it will open its mouth and flap rapidly and beg me for snacks still.
These are the closest pics I could get. It was still talking to me and took some veggies and a mouse from me while I was there.
Crows are a lot of fun!
A lot of our patients get dog or cat food in addition to other stuff. For omnivores it seems to have basic nutrition. For the younger/smaller animals, the cat food is soaked in water to let it break down easier when they eat it, especially since birds don’t have teeth. The crows are bigger and can handle the dry dog bits.
They have their favorite bits from the mix, like anyone else. This one will typically eat some carrot first, then a mouse, but I think it did take some of the dog food today.
I don’t think salt is great for them. All our nuts at the clinic are plain, and I give my wild guys at home unsalted peanuts, and mine at least greatly prefer the ones in the shell. Sometimes they’ll try to fit a few unshelled in their mouth and take off to enjoy them, but 9 times out of 10 they will prefer the ones in shells. I just buy the big bag of peanuts from the grocery store.