OwlLady
30-09-2004, 12:29 AM
this is the story of vomit the vulture.
thois is rather a difficult story to write as this bird was my fathers pride and joy he waited many years to own a vulture then one day out of the blue a centre decided they were putting him away due to the partnership dissolving i will not say what i paid for him but he did not come cheap although obviously he was priceless to me. we got him in 2000, it took several monthds to train him, working with these birds is rather difficult as they have some nasty habits. vomit had been used for flying displays but was used at flying weight for it, we were triaining him to work at fat weight o work with the public that is why it took so long to trian him. i put everythin i could into it and i got fantastic responce from him.
once he was trained we could take him out and allow the memebrs of the public to hold him on their hand without him doing any of his dirty habits and he had hundreds of pictures taken with the public and was a very popular bird.
as he was a vulture he was alos a very clever bird he could open the knots on his lead and go for a fly when he felt like it, the first time he done this he dissapeared for three days, because of the time scale and the type of bird he was we had to obviously notify all the appropriatte authoritires hence yes he made it in the papers. but he did return of his own free will and he did return to his own little "coal bunker". the "coal bunker" is four feet by six feet by four feet which at the time was sitting on a pallet off theground. th e"coal bunker" however is not a coal bunker it is a ctually a goats house, purchased as goat house and used by a goat we have at the moment as goats hse
however getting back to vomit he was never actually kept in this goathouse he had a large block to the side of the goathouse which when he allowed himself to be he was tethered to the block, howver he prefered to be untethered and danced on the roof with his wings in the air showing off,he like to think he was king of the birds and he certainly looked the part!!!!! i dont know how much people out there know about vultures but there meat has to be very well done before they can actually eat it,, so to keep vultures on a good healthy diet you must have good healthy carcusses whic will last at least a week, not everyone can stomach this and most vultures are kept on a diet of chicks--ours have never been used to.i had many days where i would just sit and talk with vomit playt with vomit and get the odd nip from vomit.
vomit lived here for approximatly three years and i feel sure that had he been unhappy during his many flights of fancy he would have forgotton to coem back. i have experienced this bird sitting on my hand displaying with his wings wide open this is difficult to expalin as you have to see it to believ it.
many people have passions for falcons/buzzards/owls fortunatly mine is with vultures, i had an incredible bond with this one which i dnt know if i will ever have again with any other bird.the sad part part to this story in the year 2003 my wife and i went for shopping and there was no one at the premise for a few hours now e do indeed live in secluded area with a forrest behind and a large scrapyard at he side unfortunatly there are two ways in and out one of which is a forrestry track running through the trees suitable for cars. this road is public right away.
when my wife and i returned from town before i had even stoped the car i said to my wife " somethign is wrong vomit is on his side". with one wing waving about, i jumped out the car run to him upon reaching him i discoverd there was damge to the wing although there was no bleeding whatsoever, i phones several vets and only one was prepared to look at the birds wing this vet was between 50-60 miles from us (one way) however we got staright in the car and went, upon arriaval wiht vomit who had shown nop pain or discomfort sitting on the backseat fine we took him in and he was xrayed, when xrayed the vet told us he would have to a second one on the oppsite side as it seemed there were two bones broken in there appeared to be what was a three inch gap each side of the break wheb the second xray was taken the vet confirmed there was definatly a three inch gap in the break by a three inch break we are talking the wing being broken and a second piece of bone being broken three inches from the first break, the vet expressed this looked very much like vomit had been hit with something solid. suggesting somthing lie a baseball bat/log/fencepost?/foot. as there was no tears in the skin at all and both breaks were interior. due to the severity of this the only options wer put him down, to have half his wing amputated, we opted for the later hoping there would still be a quality of life for him this operation cost several hundred pounds of which we didi not grudge one penny after which i nursed him,, cjhnged his dressings every day twice a day for over 2 mnths, finally it got t a stage where he did have a nice clean stump. unfortunatly vomit was never very happy afterwards on trying to display he couldnt use both wing any more. vomit was estimated to have been at least 25 years old therefore he did have both wings all his life he seemd to get very stressed when he couldnt disp[lay we tried him in an open pen where he just lay in the corner, so we took him back in and put on his anklets and jesses put him back to his block still he didint seem happy.please bear ind mind this hurt me (jeff) as much as it seemed to hurt thr bird, there is no pleaseure is seeing an unhappy bird and this was a bird who was full of joy and loved to show off.he took his food each day but still didnt improve, eventually in october he decided the time was right for him to move on:(
on making several enquirie with different people i was given the same answer as i had myself vomit had just pined and died, because he no longer had his wing. to this day we do not know what happened or why. but i am still grieving for that great amd wonderful friend i lost, this is our story of vomit this is the truth of how he ws kept and how he passed on.
for those of you wonderin vomit was called vomit because of what vultures do, and was already neamed it.
i have posted this as i was asked to tell "you all " about vomit the vulture. which for obvious reasons was a hurtful thing to say my name is jeff and tah is all for now.
(sorry guys i ave typed this as my dad spoke, he dnt talk about vomit much, and i have no grammar lol)
pleas once again moderators if you wish to remove this post do do :)
any one any questions please pm me
tahk you :)
a pic of vomit and jeff is in the gallery
thois is rather a difficult story to write as this bird was my fathers pride and joy he waited many years to own a vulture then one day out of the blue a centre decided they were putting him away due to the partnership dissolving i will not say what i paid for him but he did not come cheap although obviously he was priceless to me. we got him in 2000, it took several monthds to train him, working with these birds is rather difficult as they have some nasty habits. vomit had been used for flying displays but was used at flying weight for it, we were triaining him to work at fat weight o work with the public that is why it took so long to trian him. i put everythin i could into it and i got fantastic responce from him.
once he was trained we could take him out and allow the memebrs of the public to hold him on their hand without him doing any of his dirty habits and he had hundreds of pictures taken with the public and was a very popular bird.
as he was a vulture he was alos a very clever bird he could open the knots on his lead and go for a fly when he felt like it, the first time he done this he dissapeared for three days, because of the time scale and the type of bird he was we had to obviously notify all the appropriatte authoritires hence yes he made it in the papers. but he did return of his own free will and he did return to his own little "coal bunker". the "coal bunker" is four feet by six feet by four feet which at the time was sitting on a pallet off theground. th e"coal bunker" however is not a coal bunker it is a ctually a goats house, purchased as goat house and used by a goat we have at the moment as goats hse
however getting back to vomit he was never actually kept in this goathouse he had a large block to the side of the goathouse which when he allowed himself to be he was tethered to the block, howver he prefered to be untethered and danced on the roof with his wings in the air showing off,he like to think he was king of the birds and he certainly looked the part!!!!! i dont know how much people out there know about vultures but there meat has to be very well done before they can actually eat it,, so to keep vultures on a good healthy diet you must have good healthy carcusses whic will last at least a week, not everyone can stomach this and most vultures are kept on a diet of chicks--ours have never been used to.i had many days where i would just sit and talk with vomit playt with vomit and get the odd nip from vomit.
vomit lived here for approximatly three years and i feel sure that had he been unhappy during his many flights of fancy he would have forgotton to coem back. i have experienced this bird sitting on my hand displaying with his wings wide open this is difficult to expalin as you have to see it to believ it.
many people have passions for falcons/buzzards/owls fortunatly mine is with vultures, i had an incredible bond with this one which i dnt know if i will ever have again with any other bird.the sad part part to this story in the year 2003 my wife and i went for shopping and there was no one at the premise for a few hours now e do indeed live in secluded area with a forrest behind and a large scrapyard at he side unfortunatly there are two ways in and out one of which is a forrestry track running through the trees suitable for cars. this road is public right away.
when my wife and i returned from town before i had even stoped the car i said to my wife " somethign is wrong vomit is on his side". with one wing waving about, i jumped out the car run to him upon reaching him i discoverd there was damge to the wing although there was no bleeding whatsoever, i phones several vets and only one was prepared to look at the birds wing this vet was between 50-60 miles from us (one way) however we got staright in the car and went, upon arriaval wiht vomit who had shown nop pain or discomfort sitting on the backseat fine we took him in and he was xrayed, when xrayed the vet told us he would have to a second one on the oppsite side as it seemed there were two bones broken in there appeared to be what was a three inch gap each side of the break wheb the second xray was taken the vet confirmed there was definatly a three inch gap in the break by a three inch break we are talking the wing being broken and a second piece of bone being broken three inches from the first break, the vet expressed this looked very much like vomit had been hit with something solid. suggesting somthing lie a baseball bat/log/fencepost?/foot. as there was no tears in the skin at all and both breaks were interior. due to the severity of this the only options wer put him down, to have half his wing amputated, we opted for the later hoping there would still be a quality of life for him this operation cost several hundred pounds of which we didi not grudge one penny after which i nursed him,, cjhnged his dressings every day twice a day for over 2 mnths, finally it got t a stage where he did have a nice clean stump. unfortunatly vomit was never very happy afterwards on trying to display he couldnt use both wing any more. vomit was estimated to have been at least 25 years old therefore he did have both wings all his life he seemd to get very stressed when he couldnt disp[lay we tried him in an open pen where he just lay in the corner, so we took him back in and put on his anklets and jesses put him back to his block still he didint seem happy.please bear ind mind this hurt me (jeff) as much as it seemed to hurt thr bird, there is no pleaseure is seeing an unhappy bird and this was a bird who was full of joy and loved to show off.he took his food each day but still didnt improve, eventually in october he decided the time was right for him to move on:(
on making several enquirie with different people i was given the same answer as i had myself vomit had just pined and died, because he no longer had his wing. to this day we do not know what happened or why. but i am still grieving for that great amd wonderful friend i lost, this is our story of vomit this is the truth of how he ws kept and how he passed on.
for those of you wonderin vomit was called vomit because of what vultures do, and was already neamed it.
i have posted this as i was asked to tell "you all " about vomit the vulture. which for obvious reasons was a hurtful thing to say my name is jeff and tah is all for now.
(sorry guys i ave typed this as my dad spoke, he dnt talk about vomit much, and i have no grammar lol)
pleas once again moderators if you wish to remove this post do do :)
any one any questions please pm me
tahk you :)
a pic of vomit and jeff is in the gallery