My first reflex is to ask whether noodles prepared for human consumption might be too much sodium for a small body like that. I don't know anything about birds though, other than that they're not real.
Prob not good for them to do very often at the very least. I recently had to do a little rehab for an injured wild dove my wife brought home. We couldn't find a vet or wildlife rehab that took them, so I had to expand my knowledge about medicine into the avian realm.
Turns out birds have pretty delicate constitutions, just finding an antimicrobial that wouldn't poison them was hard enough. Pretty much everything I read was very specific about what was safe and not safe for them to eat, though I don't know if the same applies to domesticated birds.
If birds have such delicate constitutions, how do wild birds like pigeons and crows not accidentally poison themselves when eating? Seems like they'll eat anything and everything.
I don't think it would be correct to label them scavenging human food as poisoning themselves in most cases, more that it's just bad for their overall health. A lot of our food has a bunch of calories and fats without any nutritional value for birds. I know with pigeons a diet high in breads and processed carbohydrates can lead to wig deformities.
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Lumidaub@feddit.org · 45 pts · 70d
My first reflex is to ask whether noodles prepared for human consumption might be too much sodium for a small body like that. I don't know anything about birds though, other than that they're not real.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 70d
Prob not good for them to do very often at the very least. I recently had to do a little rehab for an injured wild dove my wife brought home. We couldn't find a vet or wildlife rehab that took them, so I had to expand my knowledge about medicine into the avian realm.
Turns out birds have pretty delicate constitutions, just finding an antimicrobial that wouldn't poison them was hard enough. Pretty much everything I read was very specific about what was safe and not safe for them to eat, though I don't know if the same applies to domesticated birds.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 69d
If birds have such delicate constitutions, how do wild birds like pigeons and crows not accidentally poison themselves when eating? Seems like they'll eat anything and everything.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 69d
I don't think it would be correct to label them scavenging human food as poisoning themselves in most cases, more that it's just bad for their overall health. A lot of our food has a bunch of calories and fats without any nutritional value for birds. I know with pigeons a diet high in breads and processed carbohydrates can lead to wig deformities.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 69d
Yeah, just the ocean air on a windy day caused my drone to rust
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 70d
is... is that chicken soup?
FoolishObserver@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 70d
What's in the broth?!!!?!?!?!???
digital_man@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 70d
Hehe
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 52d
Zephorah@discuss.online · 13 pts · 70d
Kestrels can kill starlings, eagles will kill some owls, maybe this little bird would try to kill a chicken if he saw one.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 11 pts · 70d
Chickens will eat other chickens so I'm not too shocked
markz@suppo.fi · 8 pts · 70d
Humans eat mammals too?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 3 pts · 70d
We tend to stay away from at least the taxonomical family.
angrystego@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 69d
People sharing their food with their parrots is a common cause of serious health problems for the birds.
toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 69d
also fun fact, animals are happier in their natural habitat 🤗