Post by Haz on Oct 29, 2019 11:14:45 GMT -7
Chy went to the vet for a checkup yesterday. She started asking to go home before even leaving the driveway. However, she was very talkative. Her vet is the only avian certified vet in town so there were quite a few birds in the waiting room. Chy spoke with all of them. None were greys and didn't talk back.
I posted about Chy's fright at the end of July when she lost all long and several shorter feathers on her bad wing. Since she was a baby, she has been unable to keep flight feathers on her left wing. They would start to grow in. Chy would flap her wings and the feathers would drop out.
The feathers that have grown since July seem to have a firmer hold than any previous ones. Her left wing now has flight feathers. She has even flown 12 to 14 feet a couple of times recently without any feather loss. The vet was delighted. I only hope this keeps up.
When we returned from the vet, I kept Chy in her travel cage and took her big cage outside to give it a good cleaning. I took out all the perches to scrub everything and threw away her soft perch. I knew this would cause a major upset so figured I would get it all done at the same time. She has her old (but clean) wooden perches and a new braided soft perch and all new toys. You can imagine the hard time I had to even get her into the cage. Then she sat on the bottom without moving.
When I covered her for the night, I heard her climb up to her sleeping perch. She couldn't see the parrot-eating new soft perch to that was okay.
This morning, she is eating by hanging off the side bars. She will come around eventually.
Haz
I posted about Chy's fright at the end of July when she lost all long and several shorter feathers on her bad wing. Since she was a baby, she has been unable to keep flight feathers on her left wing. They would start to grow in. Chy would flap her wings and the feathers would drop out.
The feathers that have grown since July seem to have a firmer hold than any previous ones. Her left wing now has flight feathers. She has even flown 12 to 14 feet a couple of times recently without any feather loss. The vet was delighted. I only hope this keeps up.
When we returned from the vet, I kept Chy in her travel cage and took her big cage outside to give it a good cleaning. I took out all the perches to scrub everything and threw away her soft perch. I knew this would cause a major upset so figured I would get it all done at the same time. She has her old (but clean) wooden perches and a new braided soft perch and all new toys. You can imagine the hard time I had to even get her into the cage. Then she sat on the bottom without moving.
When I covered her for the night, I heard her climb up to her sleeping perch. She couldn't see the parrot-eating new soft perch to that was okay.
This morning, she is eating by hanging off the side bars. She will come around eventually.
Haz
