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edwardchuajh · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: Baby Mynah found in hall

Hey all, been a while since I posted here =) Something interesting just happened, just thought that you guys might be interested to know..

A hairless pink mynah chick was found and given to me by my hostel mates, who knew I was handfeeding parrotlets and had a supply of formulae on hand and the tools to feed. So I took it in, and started feeding it in one hour intervals as research online told me it was probably only 3-4days old *sigh* it must have been blown out during the huge long storm last night, as another chick body was found too..

It has bruises on its head, which I hope won't pose any more problems and will heal nicely.. will update you guys more tmr!

more photos and updates @ http://edwardslife.blogspot.com/ sorry in a rush, can't post properly.

clubhouse · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:33 am Post subject:

Amazing! Ed, if you manage to raise it, I believe it will be a very tame bird! Mynahs are such intelligent birds... almost like parrots! And they can talk if trained!

It's so funny how the yellow beak is so big even though the baby is young Very Happy

proviewsg · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

Wah... the baby mynah sooo cute... the beak so and wide, like donald duck...

jiaxing87 · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

i tink is e hill mynah then will talk...
e normal small size one dun seem to talk one leh..

yun · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

sukino · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:21 am Post subject:

Maybe it is the color for babies. I had three mynahs before, young ones. They like mealworms btw. I remember my dad cutting the mealworms into small portions for one of them. (Cutting them is not for the faint hearted.) Definately will be tame one.

Wow. The baby is very ....ehh... young? Very cute. I never see a baby mynah before. Beak seemed to be very wide and big. Wondering

Rane · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

meow · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject:

really machiam donald duck lor. so cute! Very Happy

jiaxing87 · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject:

yeah...realli cute e beak...
rane realli both can talk meh...i know both can be tame...
but e small size one can talk meh...
i tot onli e big one wif e rubber yellow nape one can talk only sia..

edwardchuajh · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

hehe there're some pretty useless strands of hair on the chick, and they're whitish grey.. and the beak is really interesting..it's very big and wide, and rubbery at the same time.. but the 1hr interval feeding is really quite tiring.. =P

she's doing fine now, pooping an amazing lot.. and yep, I read online that mynahs can start talking/mimicking at the age of 2 mths, even the common mynahs you see around. hopefully she'll be tame and all, and maybe I'll bring her to a MoPA outing.. wahahaha...

proviewsg · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

jiaxing87 · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

wow...edward...that interesting..
didnt noe e common one can talk too..
i always tot onli the big one can..hehe Laugh

aganike · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: Baby Mynah found in hall

kityiIn · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject:

mynah can be taught to sing alot of songs de leh.
too bad i nvr kept mine and let it fly away after it has grown up^^

but when they DO find a wild mate,they will bring their mate back to visit u de leh!!

edwardchuajh · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject:

wow that sounds real interesting!! they actually came back o find you? btw did ur young one managed to learn to sing/say anything before flying away?

proviewsg: nope nope, not yet.. but most likely it'll be a combined effort for the name in my block =)

and I have this funny feeling the mynah will end up thinking its just a very huge and big brown parrotlet.. haha cuz its neighbours now are two parrotlets =)