Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:54:24 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynette Fullerton Subject: Re: Snow Bound Bird Weekend In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I thought it was on MD Osprey too...I think I remember one of the arguments against feeding dead mice (I don't think where they were obtained was necessarily the issue) to raptors is that they will then go after road-killed animals and will be more likely to be injured by cars. But maybe I'm just remembering something I read somewhere... --- Elliot Kirschbaum wrote: > on 2/19/03 7:56 AM, Sigrid Stiles at > Tytoalba13@AOL.COM wrote: > > >> Healthwise, whole mice are a good food. Many pet > shops sell feeder mice and > >> they should be healthy. > >> > > > > If pet shops are selling the mice for snake food I > would think they'd be fine > > for birds. > > I misremembered the message I referred to. Firstly, > it was posted to > BIRDCHAT not to MDOSPREY. Secondly, the objections > was to using live mice > bought at a pet store, not frozen mice bought as > feed. > > Elliot Kirschbaum > Baltimore, MD USA > mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff > mdosprey > ======================================================================= ===== "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware--joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." --Henry Miller __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================