{"id":13131,"date":"2025-01-30T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:00:34","slug":"killdeer-chick-thrives-with-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/killdeer-chick-thrives-with-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer Chick Thrives With Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13133\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-walk-bcm-250130-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"killdeer chick walking on stones in bowl indoors\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-walk-bcm-250130-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-walk-bcm-250130-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-walk-bcm-250130-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-walk-bcm-250130.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13137\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-held-bcm-250130-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"head profile of killdeer chick held in hand\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-held-bcm-250130-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-held-bcm-250130-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-held-bcm-250130-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/killdeer-chick-held-bcm-250130.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The following story about a killdeer was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/birdcentermi.org\/\">Bird Center of Michigan<\/a> in Michigan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This young killdeer has officially graduated from his cottonball-like body and into the tall, lanky look of an adult!<\/p>\n<p>On intake, he weighed a mere 20 grams (about 0.7 ounces), but has now surpassed 80 grams (about 2.8 ounces) and continues to grow every day.<\/p>\n<p>For the first three to five days after intake, the killdeer was not eating enough on his own. Staff intermittently tube-fed <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">EmerAid IC Carnivore<\/a>. With the supplemental feeding, he grew stronger and was able to eat on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Even though killdeer chicks in the wild spend around 40 days with their parents, this killdeer stayed with us for about 8 weeks before being released back into his natural habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killdeer chick begins to gain weight and thrives under the care of Bird Center of Michigan to eventually be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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