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Post by a11ycat on Sept 28, 2006 18:03:00 GMT
In the end decided not to get an autopsy done. Would have cost £50+ and as the body would have had to be sent away, would not have had the results back for at least 6 days. At the rate that my birds have got sick and died, this would likely be too late to help any of my existing birds anyway, plus they have no different antibiotics to offer my birds, and if mine are still getting sick when they have antibiotics the antibiotics won't be working. I'm keeping a close eye on the budgies who do seem a little tired, and have separated my senegal parrot into a different room, as he was in a different cage and hopefully has less chance of catching it.
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 28, 2006 12:25:16 GMT
She died, she was very weak this morning and just got worse. I'm getting an autopsy done to try and find out what the cause is to protect the other birds. So I'll let you know what happens.
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 27, 2006 9:55:51 GMT
Hi, She's still with us. Her breathing seems better today, but she's very tired. I've tried the mashed egg but she's not interested. Not having much luck with getting her interested in food. It seems like she's got constant diorrhea stuff coming out of her. I gave her about 1.5ml of water with glucose last night, and she's had another .5ml this morning. I weighed her yesterday morning and again last night and she lost 15g. She's now down to 65g. I'm just going to try and keep giving her more fluids throughout the day, and hope that that makes a difference.
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 26, 2006 19:30:25 GMT
I think it is the Baytil Oral solution.
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 26, 2006 15:35:16 GMT
Thanks for all the help. So far she's still alive, she still seems to have a mind of her own - flying down onto the floor for a wander around. The antibiotic is specially for exotics, and is the best thing for respiratory problems. I got some fresh millet today, and she has had a bit, and I've put some glucose into her drinking water to keep her energy levels up. I'm going to set up a heat pad near her cage to try and keep the temperature up for her. Managed to get a full dose of antibiotics into her this afternoon.
Aslong as she keeps wandering about, then I have hope for her, she's also doing a lot better than Minstrel did. She's still very tired though. The sneezing really does make her whole body shake, and I think that puts her off her food a bit.
I think I'll try and keep track of her weight so I can monitor her better. Any further advice, will always be appreciated.
On an aside, I took all the remaining birds to the vet, and they've been given a three day course of antibiotics too to try and protect them, so I feel I'm giving them all the best chance possible.
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 26, 2006 9:23:27 GMT
She's had alot of diarrhoea white and green overnight and this morning... large volumes of it. Anything I can do about that?
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Post by a11ycat on Sept 26, 2006 7:39:40 GMT
The cagemate of the cockatiel that died, was taken to the vets yesterday because a) I thought it wise to give her a check up and b) I could hear slight wheezing with every breath.
The vet agreed that the breathing wasn't normal and gave her an antibiotic injection and a vitamin injection. She's been given a course of antibiotics to be given orally to last till friday.
I am unsure on how to give oral antibiotics in a bird successfully as I have never done it before.
Her breathing is 'clicky' now more than wheezing, she seems a little tired but is wandering about a little, exploring. I haven't seen her eat or drink anything, and she's not showing interest in food I'm offering her by hand.
Is there anything that can be done to make sure that she eats/drinks something? Is there a particular food/liquid that I should offer her? How warm should she be kept (bearing in mind she is a house pet anyway)?
Is there anything else that can be done for her?
She also seems to be sneezing, sometimes it seems to make her shake her whole body.
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Post by a11ycat on Feb 21, 2006 11:48:48 GMT
I'll try and get some pics, but its going to be a two person job!!! lol
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Post by a11ycat on Feb 20, 2006 11:46:08 GMT
Hi, he lived on his own for three months but then I got him a friend. I suspect that he has had this problem since I got him as he has never had more than baby feathers around his neck... his friend honestly could not get close enough to do this to him... they don't get on brilliantly and generally just keep out of each other's way! His droppings seem fine... and I don't think that the bald patches irritate him, he doesn't seem to be particularly focusing his grooming or scratching on them... I'll try that site first, then if that doesn't work I'll try and find an avian vet over here! Thanks for your help people!
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Post by a11ycat on Feb 17, 2006 11:52:39 GMT
I've had Sunny (cockatiel) for about 5 months now... when I got him he just had the tiny soft feathers (down?) around his neck and had some bald patches underneath his wings... I just assumed that he was a bit young and hadn't grown them yet, but I'm beginning to wonder... He still hasn't had normal feather growth around his neck yet and now that he is letting me scratch around his head and neck there is a fairly large bald patch on his neck about the size of an english penny. The skin looks a bit dry too... It seems to be in a very hard place for him to be plucking them out of, but thats the only thing I can think of... and I've never seen him actually doing anything like that. Has anyone got any ideas what it might be and what I can do to help?
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Post by a11ycat on Jan 19, 2007 23:36:02 GMT
Hi, This evening I noticed my Senegal parrot has some bald areas around his neck. If it is feather plucking, I haven't seen him do it and it would be the first case with him. The area is about 2cm wide on his neck and extends in a small band around the front of his neck and it is definately in reach of his beak. There has been quite a bit of change in his life recently, as in December I moved to a new house, then over the Christmas holidays I was away and he was looked after by my boyfriend for 3 weeks. I've now been back with him for two weeks and hadn't noticed a problem before and I'd like to think I'm quite observant about my birds - I'm more likely to overreact. This past week I've also started introducing pellet food into his diet in the aim to eventually switch him to pellet food. I think he has eaten some of the pellets, though certainly not all, finishing off the seed in his bowl completely and wolfing down any food treats or veggies that he gets. Currently he is getting a mix of pellets and normal parrot food; about 1/3 pellets to 2/3 parrot food. I'm wondering whether this process might be stressing him out and causing him to pluck or whether it is something else and what I should do to help. Any ideas?
Concerned parrot mommy.
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Post by a11ycat on May 16, 2006 14:12:04 GMT
It went fine, well the vet didn't really know what to do... but I'd read up in a book what should be done, so had a fair idea, and basically talked the vet through it... wasn't too impressed with the vet as she tried to see which feathers were bleeding by pulling the clots off them... and so she had to cauterise them (and I've now got some lovely cauterising stains on my hands). Anyway, we managed to get the offending feathers out cleanly and I'm hoping that has solved the problem... though next time I'll probably just do it myself. I think I was being a bit too panicky about the blood thing, but an experienced breeder told me that birds can lose up to 30% of their blood without any ill effects showing, and there's no way the poor bird lost that much! So end result is a bird that hopefully isn't going to bleed every time he attempts to fly and a vet who now knows how to remove blood feathers!!!
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Post by a11ycat on May 15, 2006 12:45:45 GMT
Hi, My newest cockatiel I got in January, he was probably 10-12 months old and already clipped... he was doing fine, lives in a big cage with my other cockatiel, they tolerate each other and stay out of each other's way... anyway, he has now lost all his long wing feathers, he had the long ones near the tips of his wings, and I think he had a couple of other ones in his main section, but I had to go away for 2 weeks, during which time he got left with my boyfriend who is good at caring for them but didn't spend much time with them. Anyway, when I got him back from this, he didn't have any long feathers at all, and my boyfriend said that there had been several long feathers at the bottom of the cage when he cleaned them out... he has had some feathers come through underneath, but he's managed to break 1 on each wing, and he doesn't seem to realise he can't fly as far as before, and keeps on crashing, and causing the broken feathers to rebleed... there were four emergencies, saturday night, sunday morning and sunday evening (one on each wing), and he's lost a few drops of blood each time which worries me... each time I managed to get some corn flour over the bleeding. I'm taking him to the general vets in an hour, to see if they can help me pull the blood feathers out, I know you can do it yourself, but its the first time for me, and I worry that if it bleeds alot, he may have already lost a bit of blood so I figure the vets is the best place for him to bleed if he's going to... anyway, does any one have any ideas what I can do to help him grow back his feathers without him breaking them?
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Post by a11ycat on Oct 16, 2006 12:48:31 GMT
Thankyou very much for your advice. It has been two weeks, and all remaining birds seem fine. I will keep the parrot and the budgies separate for at least another two weeks. I feel that it is probably not going to be beneficial to run any tests at this time on the remaining birds, but if the parrot starts showing signs of illness I will take him straight to the avian vet.
Again, thanks for the support in this difficult time, I really appreciated it.
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Post by a11ycat on Oct 2, 2006 15:03:32 GMT
As you know, I lost 2 cockatiels recently, I am still fairly worried about my other birds, I have moved the senegal parrot into a separate room from the budgies, who lived (and are still living) in the same cage as the cockatiels. However, having not known the cause of death for my cockatiels, I'm still fairly on edge with the rest of the remaining birds. They seem tireder than usual, but I'm not sure if this is paranoia, genuine tiredness or a subtle sign of illness. Unfortunately the nearest avian vet is >2 hours away, and the normal vets that I have taken my birds to are not very familiar with birds and bird illnesses. How long should I wait for, to be sure that the birds are not ill and can be housed back in the same room? Should I run tests on my birds i.e. Psittacosis shares symptoms that Sunny was displaying; diarrhoea, tiredness, respiratory distress. However these could have been due to the suspected respiratory infection and antibiotics that she was on as a result. - I've found a lab that I can send samples to in the UK, without going through the vet.
I'm just at a loss for what to do for the best, to keep my remaining birds healthy.
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