Post by orange on Aug 14, 2006 13:33:42 GMT
Hi,
you have probably all read about Puku not being herself recently. Yesterday I thought that she seemed much brighter but this morning she has gone back again. She is sitting at the bottom of the cage and sitting on the whole of the bottom of her leg... up to her elbow (I call it an elbow coz of the way it bends but I spose its a knee really) and looking awful again.
I took her to the vet and he said that he thinks she either has calcium deficiency or some weird muscle thing that apparantly happens to hen kaks (not all but its supposedly quite common) when they get to breeding age (she is just over 6 months old). He suggested that I put her in a small heated hospital cage with a calcium block and no perches but I don't have one. I have a small budgie cage that I can use but how can I heat it?
Since coming home, I have looked up on kakariki.net and they basically say the same thing as the vet... (lol wonder if he is a member!! or quickly looked it up before I arrived!!!) to be honest, I don't really have a lot of faith in this vet, he just didn't give me any detailed information or in fact give her any treatment just told me what to do but surely there is something else I can do??
I am so worried about her... I don't understand how she could have clacium deficiency as she gets grit with oyster shell in and stuff which says on the packet 'calcium enriched' she also has a calcium block in her cage, a cuttle fish and she gets curly kale which is a good source of calcium. The only thing I can think of is the brocolli... I have read before that it can hinder calcium absorption and so I don't feed it very often but the thing is that she loves it and when I feed it to all three kaks she goes along and eats all of it as fast as she can before the thers get any. so maybe that has caused it. Or maybe like the vet says its just because of her age.
For now she is in the small cage nearish to my fire (not too hot don't worry) to keep her warm but I wondered if anyone else had any better ideas?
Sorry for rambling on, I am just so worried!
you have probably all read about Puku not being herself recently. Yesterday I thought that she seemed much brighter but this morning she has gone back again. She is sitting at the bottom of the cage and sitting on the whole of the bottom of her leg... up to her elbow (I call it an elbow coz of the way it bends but I spose its a knee really) and looking awful again.
I took her to the vet and he said that he thinks she either has calcium deficiency or some weird muscle thing that apparantly happens to hen kaks (not all but its supposedly quite common) when they get to breeding age (she is just over 6 months old). He suggested that I put her in a small heated hospital cage with a calcium block and no perches but I don't have one. I have a small budgie cage that I can use but how can I heat it?
Since coming home, I have looked up on kakariki.net and they basically say the same thing as the vet... (lol wonder if he is a member!! or quickly looked it up before I arrived!!!) to be honest, I don't really have a lot of faith in this vet, he just didn't give me any detailed information or in fact give her any treatment just told me what to do but surely there is something else I can do??
I am so worried about her... I don't understand how she could have clacium deficiency as she gets grit with oyster shell in and stuff which says on the packet 'calcium enriched' she also has a calcium block in her cage, a cuttle fish and she gets curly kale which is a good source of calcium. The only thing I can think of is the brocolli... I have read before that it can hinder calcium absorption and so I don't feed it very often but the thing is that she loves it and when I feed it to all three kaks she goes along and eats all of it as fast as she can before the thers get any. so maybe that has caused it. Or maybe like the vet says its just because of her age.
For now she is in the small cage nearish to my fire (not too hot don't worry) to keep her warm but I wondered if anyone else had any better ideas?
Sorry for rambling on, I am just so worried!