Hi! This is one of the Teils at the Greenbay Bird Rescue.
I am baby sitting two Teils for them at the moment.
This one I call Fatty, she was checked out and had something wrong with her and had to be put on medication for sometime.
But the impact of what was wrong with her must of meant she put on a lot of weight.
(She did come into the rescue large) But was not put on the scales that I know of.
Just after she came off her meds we weighed her at 169grams on the Rescue scales, three weeks later she was still 169grams. That was the day I took her home, four days later and my scales have her at 147grams. I must check both sets of scales to see that they are OK. I trust mine as they are with-in one gram of my vets scales, not that long ago.
She has not been eating that much and struggles to fly. Her poor flight could be due to the time she has spent in a small cage. But could also be because she is so big.
And yes she feels plump alright.
She is a Fatty for sure, but also a very large Tiel.
Here is a picture of her next to Henry to her Left and Tinkerbell to the right.
She is up for adoption.
Fatty is a gray pearl female, age unknown.
She seems to be at least semi hand tame and I have had her sitting on my shoulder preening. Fatty does a runner when I go to grab her, as she will not step up for me. Yesterday I stepped in as she was mouthing at Tinkerbell, poor Tink everybody gives her a hard time. Anyway as Fatty cannot maintain flight for long, I just follow her around till she lands on the floor, then pick her up. She does not bite or hiss at me! She stays in my spare large cage with the door open most of the time.
I had to take her out of the cage with the other Teil from the rescue as they were not getting along very well. This Teil has been caged most of the time as it seems to be a bit agro in general. Not tame.
I am baby sitting two Teils for them at the moment.
This one I call Fatty, she was checked out and had something wrong with her and had to be put on medication for sometime.
But the impact of what was wrong with her must of meant she put on a lot of weight.
(She did come into the rescue large) But was not put on the scales that I know of.
Just after she came off her meds we weighed her at 169grams on the Rescue scales, three weeks later she was still 169grams. That was the day I took her home, four days later and my scales have her at 147grams. I must check both sets of scales to see that they are OK. I trust mine as they are with-in one gram of my vets scales, not that long ago.
She has not been eating that much and struggles to fly. Her poor flight could be due to the time she has spent in a small cage. But could also be because she is so big.
And yes she feels plump alright.
She is a Fatty for sure, but also a very large Tiel.
Here is a picture of her next to Henry to her Left and Tinkerbell to the right.
She is up for adoption.
Fatty is a gray pearl female, age unknown.
She seems to be at least semi hand tame and I have had her sitting on my shoulder preening. Fatty does a runner when I go to grab her, as she will not step up for me. Yesterday I stepped in as she was mouthing at Tinkerbell, poor Tink everybody gives her a hard time. Anyway as Fatty cannot maintain flight for long, I just follow her around till she lands on the floor, then pick her up. She does not bite or hiss at me! She stays in my spare large cage with the door open most of the time.
I had to take her out of the cage with the other Teil from the rescue as they were not getting along very well. This Teil has been caged most of the time as it seems to be a bit agro in general. Not tame.