Feeding Time
Feeding Time
From Nature's Edge Wildlife Center
You have seen our posts recently about food. Here is a short clip as to why! This is a baby great horned-owl. One we took in recently. It has passed the stage of needing cut up food. Eyes are now open and it is starting to focus.
That is a whole large mouse! And this little one eats 2 or 3 at a time, 2 to 3 times per day! That's a lot of mice. Now, multiply that by 10. We have 10 great-horned owl chicks right now. Some of our older chicks are self feeding on large rats. That's a big appetite!
Oh, and we also have barn owls, screech owls, and a lone baby vulture chick!
Large fuzzy mice look to be going for around 50 cents right now.
It's amazing how a tiny owl baby can fit all that food in there, but to grow up so quickly, they need lots of energy!