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Post by Adele on Nov 5, 2019 11:44:16 GMT -7
Maui usually only laid one clutch per year.
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Post by Haz on Nov 5, 2019 13:20:08 GMT -7
That’s good to know.
Haz
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Post by Jane on Nov 9, 2019 6:01:17 GMT -7
The blood test results came in on Friday and the vet phoned me this morning. He said they were okay. He said she probably has some inflammation due to the egg laying process and egg proteins moving around. She hasn't laid any more eggs and her abdomen is still swollen. The vet said to update him on Monday, she might need some antibiotics. He doesn't think the wheezing is anything to worry about.
I caught Monty with one of the eggs the other night. The first one she laid had got broken at some stage. He was on the floor of the cage and he had got his beak inserted into the broken area and was walking around with it held aloft. I had to grab it off him!
Jane
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Post by chris on Nov 9, 2019 9:14:22 GMT -7
Sounds like good news Jane - thank you for the update!
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Post by Haz on Nov 9, 2019 13:01:15 GMT -7
Monty was just checking that he wasn't a daddy.
That is great news about Mitzi.
Haz
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Post by Adele on Nov 9, 2019 17:56:53 GMT -7
That's hilarious that Monty had the egg and was carrying it around!! Good to hear that the blood tests were okay. Hopefully the swelling in her abdomen goes down.
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Post by Jane on Nov 11, 2019 8:19:42 GMT -7
I took Mitzi back to the vet today. Her abdomen is still swollen and she hasn't laid the egg. Some more blood test results came in - immunoglobulins increased which is consistent with acute inflammation. She has got antibiotics to be given 1.3mls twice a day, more as a test really to see if she has a bacterial infection. She also has high CK indicative of muscle damage. Apparently she should lay the egg eventually but it could take a while.
Jane
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Post by Haz on Nov 11, 2019 9:10:29 GMT -7
Poor Mitzi. I hope she will take the antibiotics without problem and get that egg out quickly.
Haz
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Post by Jane on Nov 12, 2019 11:15:35 GMT -7
I have been having trouble getting the medicine into her. She won't take it by beak. I have tried soaking it into cake, adding it to banana, adding it to baby porridge (which I had been giving her before and she had been eating) and putting that in with scrambled egg, and today I put it into baby porridge which I then wrapped in mashed sweet potato making little balls. These are all foods she likes. As soon as she realised all this food has been adulterated she grabs it and flings it. I can tell by the look on her face that she is thinking: "Do you really think you can fool me"
Jane
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Post by Haz on Nov 13, 2019 11:56:32 GMT -7
They are too smart for us. When I tried to hide medicine in Chyloe’s favourite treat, she refused to eat it. Giving her the medicine became a two-person job. I held her while hubby slowly squirted the medicine into the side of her beak with a syringe. Then I massaged her throat to make her swallow. We did that twice a day.
Before Chy would eat yogurt again, I had to taste it first so she knew I wasn’t hiding nasty medicine in it.
Haz
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Post by chris on Nov 13, 2019 12:35:27 GMT -7
We've had to give Ruby antibiotics twice during her almost 5 year life and elected to do it by injection. It was tough on my wife but she did a great job. This way we knew for sure she was getting her full dosages. The downside is even though the last was 6 months ago Ruby still won't let my wife tickle or scratch her like she will with me -- still afraid of getting grabbed.
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Post by Adele on Nov 13, 2019 15:07:24 GMT -7
Several years ago I had to give Maui medicine. I ended up grabbing her neck, and then just putting the syringe into her mouth and slowly putting in the medicine. I had to hold her head up or she'd just shake and get it all out. She was mad, but luckily more at the syringe than me.
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Post by Jane on Nov 14, 2019 2:05:50 GMT -7
I have now been having more success with getting the medication into her. I measure out the dose and put it in a little bowl then add some baby porridge - a tiny amount - to make a paste. I then put this on some warm mashed sweet potato and put more mashed sweet potato on the top then shape it all into a little ball about the size of a blueberry. There is usually enough of the medicine/porridge mix to need two of these balls. I have also been putting it into a satsuma segment - the softer sort that you find in tins or little pots. I cut a little pocket in the wider part of the segment and put the medicine/porridge mix in and then feed it to her. She loves these satsuma segments so she tends to wolf it down.
Jane
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Post by Jane on Nov 15, 2019 4:58:20 GMT -7
The vet examined Mitzi again this morning and is now saying he thinks the egg(s) have been reabsorbed. He said there isn't any fluid in her abdomen or anything solid. He said he thinks the abdominal swelling is due to the fact that she is an older bird to have laid her first eggs and the tissues have got stretched. I have to update him on Thursday.
There was another African Grey in the waiting room, a 21 year old female. I couldn't see her because she was in a small wooden box but I heard familiar growling coming from the box and asked the owner if it was an African Grey!
Jane
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Post by Haz on Nov 15, 2019 12:39:04 GMT -7
That’s good for Mitzi if she doesn’t have another egg to lay.
The other grey at the vet probably wasn’t feeling well since it was growling. Chy chats with everyone and their birds at the vet.
Haz
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