This Great Horned Owl had an udderly unlucky encounter with a cow, resulting in a fractured right carpometacarpus-a critical bone in the wing that helps birds fly. The owl was quickly brought to Salthaven for care, where the team at Mount Brydges Animal Clinic confirmed the injury with X-rays, allowing us to begin treatment.
To stabilize the fracture and qive it the best chance to heal, our team carefully placed the wing in a wrap. Now, after weeks of dedicated care and rest, the wing is out of the wrap, and the owl is ready to start test flights.
This determined owl is moo-ving steadily toward a full recovery, and we’re hopeful it will soon take to the skies again. Stay tuned for updates.
one wonders… why a cow? like I assume the cow was more or less minding its own business- it can’t fly, so the ow could just avoid it at will…
Owl was like, “I could take that…”
One of my theories is that the owl just flew into it in the dark and it was like hitting a wall. An update post states it was stepped on though.
Ow! But then even more ow! I’m surprised it survived; I don’t know if I’d survive being stepped on by a cow.
I found an update on the owl, and it says it was stepped on by the cow. This was one of my 2 theories on what happened. Not sure if the owl scared the cow, or if the cow just didn’t see it and stepped on it.