Alice the Great Horned Owl is a permanently injured owl who works at the Houston Nature Center in Houston, MN and lives with her handler, Karla Bloem. Rusty and Iris are Great Horned Owls that are both blind in their right eyes and cannot live in the wild. Rusty and Iris are breeding in captivity as part of Karla's vocal study on Great Horned Owls. All together they have led to the creation of an International Owl Center in Houston, MN and an International Festival of Owls.
How often do you put new food out for them, as opposed to how often you put food out before? Also, what is the increase of amount of food now that there are three new growing beaks to feed? What's on the menu? I've noticed rabbit.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing once a day, but sometimes I'm feeding in the morning now too. I used to give Rusty and Iris 1.5 gophers, now they're getting 2.5 gophers, a hunk of rabbit, and random mice or other little goodies.
DeleteIs the youngest owl getting enough food?
ReplyDeleteI presume so. There certainly isn't a shortage of food!
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