Medium Term Accommodation

Medium term accommodation is for wild animals who don’t have injuries or diseases that are serious enough for long term accommodation but still too sick or injured to only be in the centre for short term accommodation. An example may be that they need to stay in the centre whilst they receive a course of antibiotics but they are not in too much pain or feel too sick, they may have a bug.
Figure Four: To show a good example of medium term accommodation for a blackbird that is staying for a sufficient medium amount of time, this cage would be suitable for a blackbird staying for medium term accommodation as with it being medium term accommodation they need to socialise with other birds, as they cannot become too domesticated, so the medium term needs to resemble the wild more than the short term accommodation does, so this means: at least three or four birds in with it (this is obviously only if the bird has something that IS NOT contagious), make sure that it gets scatter fed in order to prevent imprinting as you do not want them copying behaviour that they wouldn’t be able to copy out in the wild. This cage would need a few more full cleans than the short term accommodation too because there is multiple birds so that …show more content…
There should be appropriate enrichment such as logs and branches, not as many as for long term accommodation, but still a sufficient amount and play the “Substrate Shuffle” game which will be fun for the multiple birds and it is what they would have to do all the time in the wild. Maybe make little lolly pop stick houses for them. It is important that the mental health