Last night I got home from work to find out Sunny was having difficulty breathing. Her tail was bobbing up/down and sometimes her beak was open.
Her wings were drooping some and she was having trouble keeping her eyes open. Her stool was watery and not the right color and she was not eating or drinking.
Took her first thing in the AM to my avian vet, didn't even make appointment but I did try calling. I know he did everything he could but there was no saving herm she was to far gone.
First he was going to go for a blood test but in looking for a vein he noticed a lot of bruising around and on back of neck. He decided to try an x-ray.
He got the x-ray but came rushing back to the exam room to tell me she was crashing and he was going to give her oxygen. He came back in about 2 minutes holding my poor Sunny in his hands telling me she did not make it:smile016: .
In this case I really wanted a necropsy but the logistics were against it. I would have had to hand carry her body down to San Bernardino (from Palmdale Lancaster area) and I did not think I could do it. With her on the seat next to me (kept in a cooler to be sure) and tears in my eyes the whole way. Instead I asked my vet to do wat he could to determine cause of death.
After removing the feathers from her body he showed me how she looked. If I didn't know better I would have sworn someone had abused her. She was black/blue all over.
Internally he found that the liver was the cause of death. my Vet said he had never seen anything like it. he has preserved the liver for further annalists and is going to be consulting other avian specialists to try to get to the bottom and root cause if he can.
Fly free Sunny
you were a wonderful family member and a terrific mother to your babies.
texsize/Wes
Her wings were drooping some and she was having trouble keeping her eyes open. Her stool was watery and not the right color and she was not eating or drinking.
Took her first thing in the AM to my avian vet, didn't even make appointment but I did try calling. I know he did everything he could but there was no saving herm she was to far gone.
First he was going to go for a blood test but in looking for a vein he noticed a lot of bruising around and on back of neck. He decided to try an x-ray.
He got the x-ray but came rushing back to the exam room to tell me she was crashing and he was going to give her oxygen. He came back in about 2 minutes holding my poor Sunny in his hands telling me she did not make it:smile016: .
In this case I really wanted a necropsy but the logistics were against it. I would have had to hand carry her body down to San Bernardino (from Palmdale Lancaster area) and I did not think I could do it. With her on the seat next to me (kept in a cooler to be sure) and tears in my eyes the whole way. Instead I asked my vet to do wat he could to determine cause of death.
After removing the feathers from her body he showed me how she looked. If I didn't know better I would have sworn someone had abused her. She was black/blue all over.
Internally he found that the liver was the cause of death. my Vet said he had never seen anything like it. he has preserved the liver for further annalists and is going to be consulting other avian specialists to try to get to the bottom and root cause if he can.
Fly free Sunny
you were a wonderful family member and a terrific mother to your babies.texsize/Wes
poor sunny, fly free!
