Good News and Bad
Well, the good news came back. Patchie and Neo don't have Psitticosis! YAY! That means.. none of the other birds were exposed to a potentially horrible, contagious illness. YAY! That's a mega relief, especially since I just introduced Trinny and Teika to the flock.
The bad news: Patchie isn't improving much even though she's been on two weeks of Doxy. Neo on the otherhand... is doing well. He's very active, singing and his tail isn't bobbing near as much. I think he'll always have a slight flick to his tail, but its hardly noticeable now. Patchie's tail still pumps just a bit.. she's still a bit lethargic, she still shakes her head and most alarmingly, she's dropped a considerable amount of weight. She's gone from 100 grams to 84. I called the vet with the update and she said not to fear. Its probably a secondary infection from the Doxy that has set in (uh-huh.. I feared as much. In fact... over the last weekend.. I noticed the the above symptoms and started adding a bit of apple cider vinegar to the drinking water to stave off the beasty-yeasties until she could be medicated). My vet said excellent.. that can't hurt her one bit and ordered up some ketakonazole. Kaching. Forty bucks. OWCH. So.. she's had a dose of that now (started it last night) and we'll see if it doesn't help. Today, she seems a little bit perkier. I think the apple cider vinegar WAS starting to help because I weighed her prior to adminstering the meds last night and she was back up by 2 grams. YAY.
The other birdies seem to be doing well. Trinny is quite the little character! She's becoming VERY affectionate these days and loves her scritches. She's beginning to get the "hang" of things around here and is learning how to beg like the others. She also knows to have her head ready and waiting when I open that cage in the morning so she can be first to get scritches. HEHE! Taxi has competition! Lately, Taxi and Trinny are the first two birds to greet me in the morning.
Teika has me a little worried. I pretty sure she's fine health wise. She's not showing any signs of being ill. No sneezing, tail bobbing, or anything like it. Her plumage is great and she's very active. She loves to crawl upside down on the cage bars. But.. she's lost some weight and out of all of my birds, she's not one of them who I had weight concerns about. She's not at an unhealthy weight. SHe's down from 94 to 86 grams. And.. I weighed in this morning before she'd eaten. But.. down is down. As I type this.. she's eating. I had tried to cut back on the seeds earlier this week to thawrt Trinny's weight GAIN, as well as Taxi's, so that may very well have something to do with Teika's loss. Patchie's as well... so as of now.. the diet is off and the birds are getting more seed in their pellet dishes again. I'll deal with the chunkers later. If I have to put my fatties in "Fat Camp" (aka... a differnt cage) for a while.. then so be it, but I won't have my slighter hens loosing weight as a result of the porkers. Meanwhile, I'll keep a sharp eye on Teika and if she drops anymore weight, off to the vet she goes, just to make sure she isn't loosing weight for reasons other than the more obvious ones.
Taxi thinks her vent doesn't stink recently! See.. she just grew in her wings and figured out how to fly! Oh BOY! Well... unlike Neo.. she doesn't just circle the room once and return to the cage. Taxi isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box. Today.. she escaped from the cage and nearly flew out the window! The curtain was in the way and fortunately, it caught her! Omg... ! I had a flippin cow! She wasn't supposed to be out of her cage.. but don't ask me HOW that little snot got that cage open. She WANTED to come see Mamma.. but once she got that door open.. she just started flying. The other day... I had the door open and was feeding the birds. Taxi escaped under my arm and flew all the way down the hallway and into my bedroom. Her goal? She wanted the bag of potato chips she saw Scott carrying down there. BEGGETHA! So... Miss Taxi got her wings clipped today. I hadn't wanted to do it because she'd gotten such a bad clip before that she used to flap backwards and she broke off all of her tailfeathers. Now they're back and she was learning to fly again. WOW did she! HAHA! She just can't be trusted with those wings the way Neo can. But then again.. Neo can fly even with clipped wings so it doesn't matter much WHAT I do to his wings. I only trim his wings enough to slow him down so that if he crashes into something, its not at breakneck speed.
Speaking of clipping.. Silver needs some length taken off. Oh boy... I'm in for some nips there! Everyone else is really good about being handled, but Silver... well.. he has his moments. HAHA! Naw.. he squeals louder than anyone though.
And.. last but not least.. the cute pic of the day!
Trinny at bathtime. omg.. was she ever soaked and loving it. And..what a lil loser! I'd scritch her wet lil mohawk.. and she'd spread her wings like she was getting sprayed again!!! HEHEEH! Cute alert!
The bad news: Patchie isn't improving much even though she's been on two weeks of Doxy. Neo on the otherhand... is doing well. He's very active, singing and his tail isn't bobbing near as much. I think he'll always have a slight flick to his tail, but its hardly noticeable now. Patchie's tail still pumps just a bit.. she's still a bit lethargic, she still shakes her head and most alarmingly, she's dropped a considerable amount of weight. She's gone from 100 grams to 84. I called the vet with the update and she said not to fear. Its probably a secondary infection from the Doxy that has set in (uh-huh.. I feared as much. In fact... over the last weekend.. I noticed the the above symptoms and started adding a bit of apple cider vinegar to the drinking water to stave off the beasty-yeasties until she could be medicated). My vet said excellent.. that can't hurt her one bit and ordered up some ketakonazole. Kaching. Forty bucks. OWCH. So.. she's had a dose of that now (started it last night) and we'll see if it doesn't help. Today, she seems a little bit perkier. I think the apple cider vinegar WAS starting to help because I weighed her prior to adminstering the meds last night and she was back up by 2 grams. YAY.
The other birdies seem to be doing well. Trinny is quite the little character! She's becoming VERY affectionate these days and loves her scritches. She's beginning to get the "hang" of things around here and is learning how to beg like the others. She also knows to have her head ready and waiting when I open that cage in the morning so she can be first to get scritches. HEHE! Taxi has competition! Lately, Taxi and Trinny are the first two birds to greet me in the morning.
Teika has me a little worried. I pretty sure she's fine health wise. She's not showing any signs of being ill. No sneezing, tail bobbing, or anything like it. Her plumage is great and she's very active. She loves to crawl upside down on the cage bars. But.. she's lost some weight and out of all of my birds, she's not one of them who I had weight concerns about. She's not at an unhealthy weight. SHe's down from 94 to 86 grams. And.. I weighed in this morning before she'd eaten. But.. down is down. As I type this.. she's eating. I had tried to cut back on the seeds earlier this week to thawrt Trinny's weight GAIN, as well as Taxi's, so that may very well have something to do with Teika's loss. Patchie's as well... so as of now.. the diet is off and the birds are getting more seed in their pellet dishes again. I'll deal with the chunkers later. If I have to put my fatties in "Fat Camp" (aka... a differnt cage) for a while.. then so be it, but I won't have my slighter hens loosing weight as a result of the porkers. Meanwhile, I'll keep a sharp eye on Teika and if she drops anymore weight, off to the vet she goes, just to make sure she isn't loosing weight for reasons other than the more obvious ones.
Taxi thinks her vent doesn't stink recently! See.. she just grew in her wings and figured out how to fly! Oh BOY! Well... unlike Neo.. she doesn't just circle the room once and return to the cage. Taxi isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box. Today.. she escaped from the cage and nearly flew out the window! The curtain was in the way and fortunately, it caught her! Omg... ! I had a flippin cow! She wasn't supposed to be out of her cage.. but don't ask me HOW that little snot got that cage open. She WANTED to come see Mamma.. but once she got that door open.. she just started flying. The other day... I had the door open and was feeding the birds. Taxi escaped under my arm and flew all the way down the hallway and into my bedroom. Her goal? She wanted the bag of potato chips she saw Scott carrying down there. BEGGETHA! So... Miss Taxi got her wings clipped today. I hadn't wanted to do it because she'd gotten such a bad clip before that she used to flap backwards and she broke off all of her tailfeathers. Now they're back and she was learning to fly again. WOW did she! HAHA! She just can't be trusted with those wings the way Neo can. But then again.. Neo can fly even with clipped wings so it doesn't matter much WHAT I do to his wings. I only trim his wings enough to slow him down so that if he crashes into something, its not at breakneck speed.
Speaking of clipping.. Silver needs some length taken off. Oh boy... I'm in for some nips there! Everyone else is really good about being handled, but Silver... well.. he has his moments. HAHA! Naw.. he squeals louder than anyone though.
And.. last but not least.. the cute pic of the day!
Trinny at bathtime. omg.. was she ever soaked and loving it. And..what a lil loser! I'd scritch her wet lil mohawk.. and she'd spread her wings like she was getting sprayed again!!! HEHEEH! Cute alert!
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