Ew. What a way to go. Poor Steemie #1. I know when I raised a baby sparrow we had to be careful of her because if she'd gotten her new little feathers wet with some kind of oil she could get too cold and get hypothermic shock quickly. It was tricky because she had a wound on one wing that we'd been treating with triple-A ointment since she didn't have feathers when she fell from her nest, but once she had feathers we had to be super careful to just get the ointment right on the wound.
Ew. What a way to go. Poor Steemie #1. I know when I raised a baby sparrow we had to be careful of her because if she'd gotten her new little feathers wet with some kind of oil she could get too cold and get hypothermic shock quickly. It was tricky because she had a wound on one wing that we'd been treating with triple-A ointment since she didn't have feathers when she fell from her nest, but once she had feathers we had to be super careful to just get the ointment right on the wound.