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!
No rocket fuel out the back of this guy though. 😝