When a bird is sick, as fanciers we do everything we can to get it better — and we usually succeed. But sometimes a bird cannot be saved; that's just how nature works.
What I want to talk about briefly here is the return of a recovered bird to the normal bird population. This requires a week of extra caution — especially if the bird has been in a sick cage for several days at a higher temperature than in its normal enclosure.
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