cleosmom
New member
- Jul 13, 2018
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- Parrots
- Cleo--male sun conure
Whack Whack--female sun conure
Violet, Jade, and Buttercup--female budgies
Hi,
I have a two sun conures, one male(12) and one female(15), and 3 budgies.
The two sun conures share a cage. I've had the male since he was a baby and I adopted the female 8 years ago. Around 5 years ago she started laying eggs that weren't fertilized. She hasn't laid an egg for almost a year and a half and the last time she only laid one egg. I do my best to discourage her egg laying.
Over the last month or so I noticed she seems tired more often and last week she seemed sick when I came home from work. She was a little fluffed-up and sitting on her perch with her eyes closed and her wings twitching. I noticed a few times previously she was regurgitating randomly and a few times her right leg seemed paralyzed and then went back to normal--these symptoms didn't happen at the same time. I took her to an avian vet for an emergency visit last Saturday(July 9th) night. The vet looked her over, did a gram stain, and x-rays. He said she had a bit of yeast on the gram stain, but not that bad. The x-rays showed her intestines are swollen and maybe notched in on part. I don't remember everything he said. I did get the notes, but it didn't say exactly what the x-ray found. He wanted to give me 3 medicines. One for infection, one for yeast, and one for regurgitation. I didn't take the one for regurgitation as it seemed excessive. I can give specific names of medications, but don't have that in front of me. So she seems a little better, but I still see her regurgitating. She has a hard time with her morning poop, that's been off and on for awhile. She does like sweets and her first mom fed her a lot of sun flower seeds. The vet note did say she might not get better. I'm not sure what infection she has or what kind of yeast she has. She's been eating okay. I noticed too that her poops were coming out it little balls sometimes.
I wonder if I should try to get more info and possibly more medicine or take the best care of her I can knowing she is chronically ill.
Thanks for your help.
I have a two sun conures, one male(12) and one female(15), and 3 budgies.
The two sun conures share a cage. I've had the male since he was a baby and I adopted the female 8 years ago. Around 5 years ago she started laying eggs that weren't fertilized. She hasn't laid an egg for almost a year and a half and the last time she only laid one egg. I do my best to discourage her egg laying.
Over the last month or so I noticed she seems tired more often and last week she seemed sick when I came home from work. She was a little fluffed-up and sitting on her perch with her eyes closed and her wings twitching. I noticed a few times previously she was regurgitating randomly and a few times her right leg seemed paralyzed and then went back to normal--these symptoms didn't happen at the same time. I took her to an avian vet for an emergency visit last Saturday(July 9th) night. The vet looked her over, did a gram stain, and x-rays. He said she had a bit of yeast on the gram stain, but not that bad. The x-rays showed her intestines are swollen and maybe notched in on part. I don't remember everything he said. I did get the notes, but it didn't say exactly what the x-ray found. He wanted to give me 3 medicines. One for infection, one for yeast, and one for regurgitation. I didn't take the one for regurgitation as it seemed excessive. I can give specific names of medications, but don't have that in front of me. So she seems a little better, but I still see her regurgitating. She has a hard time with her morning poop, that's been off and on for awhile. She does like sweets and her first mom fed her a lot of sun flower seeds. The vet note did say she might not get better. I'm not sure what infection she has or what kind of yeast she has. She's been eating okay. I noticed too that her poops were coming out it little balls sometimes.
I wonder if I should try to get more info and possibly more medicine or take the best care of her I can knowing she is chronically ill.
Thanks for your help.