alienlady wrote:Pajarita I can't thank you enough for that wealth of information, it is far more than any vet has ever told me. I am so grateful to you.I feel that at last someone is listening to my fears, unlike the vets! But I suppose if they are not avian vets they don't have enough knowledge.
The avian vet is starting after Christmas so may I prevail upon you for a special diet until then please?
Liseth was caged all day and no one home, no toys and bad diet. She has lots of toys and a playstand now and is free all day . She is tame now and an absolute delight and even talks a bit. So I want her to have good health she deserves it. Y
Thankyou so much.
One cannot fault avian vets for not explaining in detail because the truth is that parrots are extremely complex animals to keep as pets with SOOOO many details to take into consideration that, if an avian vet was going to sit down with every single owner and explain EVERYTHING, they would end up seeing two patients a day But, what I do fault them for is their giving advice on diet and behavior, two things they don't study and that, unless they've had multiple parrots of their own and for quite a number of years, they couldn't possibly have learned.
The diet I was referring to is gloop and you can find a number of recipes in our diet section but, basically, it means a dish of whole grains cooked at dente (except for the pulses, of course!) mixed with chopped veggies. In my personal opinion and, although it's not their natural diet or anything remotely similar, it does provide the same nutritional parameters that their natural diet does: high moisture, high fiber, low protein, low fat and a large range of food-derived vitamins and minerals. The supplements I use with the liver damage birds are milk thistle (both the capsules mixed in the gloop and the alcohol-free liquid extract in their water), dandelion root (capsule in gloop), methionine (capsule in gloop), aloe vera juice (not gel) from the inner leaf (not the whole leaf) mixed in their water. I am now also using theanine (capsule in water but could also be done in the gloop) with the sun conure with hemochromatosis but I am thinking that I am going to start using it with the others too because all studies point to its restoring low levels of glutathione (antioxidant and detoxifier) in livers damaged by alcohol and chemotherapy.