Posted on 12/10/2010 12:25:43 PM PST by RadiationRomeo
I heard a strange sound as I was cleaning up a shed, and it was a hibernating bat. I need to move it. It is attached to the side of a sheet of OSB that I could carry to some other place. This is Ohio and its fairly cold. It is not heated where I found it. I could move it to another barn. I thought Ohio bats went south for the winter. Anyways, will it survive if I tote the sheet of OSB to a protected, but not heated, section of a barn? I could knock it off the board and take it to the hay loft where they live during the summer. I need advice.
Uh, Buffalo Bat Wings?
Bats hibernates?
Call the animal shelter for advice. I doubt they’ll take it off your hands but they might have an educated idea of what to do with it.
Just release it. It will probably find a decent spot.
If you move it, don’t touch it with your bare hands. Bats carry rabies.
If possible, and there is no harm done, I would recommend leaving it.
Bats are turning into almost an endangered species because of that white-nose fever thingie.
I’d leave it alone to be honest. Let nature run its course.
If woken out of hibernation, they sometimes die anyway. Don’t touch it, it may have rabies. Never pick one off the ground- If it’s down, there’s something wrong with it.
They probably will take it off your hands because they can be rabid...
I know about bat rabies, nothing spreads rabies more than bats. I doubt this thing is going to fly so my idea is just to move the whole sheet of OSB to somewhere where the cats can’t reach it.
Between my bats and the chimney swifts I don’t have many mosquitos in the summer. For some reason I don’t have any barn swallows.
When I was a kid I dissected a bat. We killed it by spinning a golf club into the air as they flew above us when they left their roost. Just thought I’d share that. Carry on.
Contact the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center in Bay Village, Ohio!!!!
http://www.lensc.org/index.aspx
440-871-2900
They actually over winter bats at their facility. If they are too far away for you...their naturalists can advise you or help locate a facility.
Try not to disturb the bat until you contact them for help. With the big snowstorm coming...you might inadvertently kill it.
Had a friend who ran into a rabid skunk in the chicken house. All three of the folks had to be treated even only was bit. If the animal hisses at you there can be infective droplets in the air.
They all got treatment and all survived.
Mmmmmm....I loves me some Alpha-bat soup!
Thanks for the link. Sounds like the bat will be toast soon because it will be single digits in a few days. I’m surprised it survived this long.
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