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- Sunny a female B&G macaw;
Japie (m) & Appie (f), both are congo african grey;
All are rescues- had to leave their previous homes for 'reasons', are still in contact with them :)
Nah, yours is massive for such a tiny leg.
I had a canary a long, long time ago (when I was only a third of my size today) who probably had bumblefoot, but we never knew that (no internet, middle of nowhere, no CAV, too young for a bird-club blah blah).
He was just as bad (also lost part of some toes etc.).
(In his case if was the middlefoot, not the ankle that was the worst, though that was also affected)
He never really recovered ( he got better, worse, better, worse while being treated for "some kind of infection" and then we had a really really hard winter and he just stopped, he was the only bird in the aviary who had these issues, so at first we suspected inbreeding of some sort -> I was given a lot of secondhand/secondlife birds, some were a mess, others just elderly).
I had a canary a long, long time ago (when I was only a third of my size today) who probably had bumblefoot, but we never knew that (no internet, middle of nowhere, no CAV, too young for a bird-club blah blah).
He was just as bad (also lost part of some toes etc.).
(In his case if was the middlefoot, not the ankle that was the worst, though that was also affected)
He never really recovered ( he got better, worse, better, worse while being treated for "some kind of infection" and then we had a really really hard winter and he just stopped, he was the only bird in the aviary who had these issues, so at first we suspected inbreeding of some sort -> I was given a lot of secondhand/secondlife birds, some were a mess, others just elderly).
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. He thought the bumblefoot didn't look to bad and should be fixed using tricide. He also said that the med that we're using on her (gentamycin), would only use for 5 days max. Our last vet told us to keep using it for as along we want until the bumblefoot is healed. He also said that genticin can cause problems in organs. So he told us to stop using all the antibiotics. He doesn't think her weight loss is caused by the bumblefoot because it doesn't seem to be that bad. But I think it might've caused her to not want to eat anything because she seemed like she was in pain. She was limping again a few days ago and we shouldn't forget the whole "walking on ankle" thing. He also said that the swelling in ankle didn't seem bad enough. He suspects either a liver or kidney issue. But he can't get her on meds because she needs to fatten up.
Sometimes life is just not fair!
