I've used a weight watchers digital scale ($40ish), a postal scale (about the same price) and a jewelry gram scale ($50-60). A "real bird" scale can run between $100 and $150, but for the smaller birds the small scales work fine.
Laurie W.
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From: CLAUDIA MELTEFF
To: discuss@mickaboo.org ; action@mickaboo.org
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: Fwd: [Mickaboo Discuss] Avian scales (getting ready to order soon)
Just my $ .02 - but I think every bird caretaker should have a gram scale, especially those of you who foster Mickaboo birds. Often a bird will be on antibiotics and lose its appetite - as we know birds have high metabolisms and need to eat. If they don't they can rapidly lose weight and develop fatty liver problems (the liver's response to starvation). Often, too, birds experience stress from a recent change of home environments and don't eat well, which can result in the same compromised health. When I have a foster bird it is weighed every other day for the first month and then twice a month there after - the schedule I keep with my own birds. I have a Sterling scale and this is a great price. Please take advantage of this arrangement if you can.
Thanks.
SHAUNA HILL wrote:
From: SHAUNA HILL
To: General mickaboo discussion
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:02:22 -0700
Subject: [Mickaboo Discuss] Avian scales (getting ready to order soon)
I have only heard from a couple of people since I put the email out about this and I don't want keep them waiting any longer (thanks Frank and Skip). I'll hold this open till Sunday for anyone else who wants to email me that they want to go in on this. Then I'll get in touch with those who want to order so we can coordinate and put our order in with Sterling.
- Shauna
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