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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Bird woman » Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:49 am

A long time has passed and many things going on. Pajirta thank you for offering to become 1 of the board members , I will probably take you up on it! I can't think of a better more knowledgeable person that I would like on board with me. Many new special needs birds to tend to. Things are settling down a bit as the newbies are getting used to the idea of what freedom really looks like. Pearl the umbrella is 8 days out of surgery now and what a little prickly pear sweetheart she is. I've bumped up her calcium intake as there are a lot of feathers coming in and with her extensive medical needs being now taken care of she needs extra nutrients to flourish. My birdie garden is producing much needed vegitaation for the fids finally and has cut the grocery bill down at least 100 bucks a week. Jazzie the prolapse umbrella is almost ready for his total rebuild as his hormones are getting in check quicker than I had anticipated. YEA!!! There's a slender billed corella named Daisy that will have pearls collar put on this Friday to address her picking a hole in her chest issue. She is such a sweet girl and has fallen head over heals in love with my housekeeper. Cleo the little bare`eye that came in with the 6 is such a sensitive little girl , sweet and gentle and needs a home without a lot of commotion where she will have nonstop love and be the center of attention. Charlie the goffin , well what can I say about Charlie except he's a wild child , never been handled , into everything and loves me to death and follows me around like a love sick puppy. He rings his bells for me non stop when he wants to know where I am. Ya ya the triton will be next on the list of surgeries as she has a 3 year old wing injury broken in 2 spots as near as I can tell. Kiwi the Quaker which was brought down for a woman and her husband that just bought a new motor home and wanted a traveling bird will not be rehomed from here as she has had 2 surgeries for broken leg and pelvis. Jeeeeeez what was he thinking sending this bird for them. Kiwi now has a special needs cage set`up perfectly for her and will be staying. She has bonded to me and is getting much needed sunshine and nutrition. Mr. Grey has stargazing syndrome and is already rehomed to a great caring loving woman and making excellent progress with her. All of these birds that were brought down are so appreciative of there home cooked meals , my ungrateful flock should take notice of just how good they've got it . :roll: all of my flock are doing great and terrorizing the house when they can't get outside. Well that about sums it up for now I think :lol: BW
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Pajarita » Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:22 am

It sounds as if you are super busy but making things work very well! Kudos to you for that, Patti! But, please, remember not to take on more than you can handle because birds have a way of going through changes for, at least, 2 years after coming to a new place and, sometimes, birds that originally got along, stop doing it and need to be 'worked on' (I have found that to be especially true with toos - Linus is giving me a hard time right now with his 'reverting' to being a 'normal' too :lol: ]. Poor little Kiwi! And of course a bird that has physical problems cannot be rehomed to somebody who is going to be travelling all over the place! They not only need stability, they need to be able to see the same vet over and over! Hasn't Max Quaker taken notice of her or are we talking about gender-specific names that were given without actually knowing the sex of the bird?

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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Bird woman » Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:54 am

Boy don't I know about the change thing!!! There always changing and developing through the years and honestly I believe our lives and care shapes much of that. Everyone that comes over just gushes over lumi , Lilly bell and Maxie but I just tell them they didn't come this way and how personalities developed over time. Kiwi is still in quarantine and it will be a couple more weeks but blood work is fine. Maxie is DNA'D female and I have no proof of kiwis gender yet. Sometimes we have no control over who comes in as you well know. :lol: But I've halted any other birds coming in unless it's an emergency situation. I've set up the pool house into a quarantine room and it's detached from the main house so I've learned how to be on a dead run between buildings all day. :violin: I do have several people offering to volunteer and will be addressing that soon but right now I haven't much time for supervising newbies and use the help more that I've already broke in and are familiar with the birds, but there paid employees and I just grit my teeth putting out 12 bucks an hour for birdie babysitting and play dates. :roll: Linus and Nigel sound like they were hatched from the same brood :lol: I think they should meet. Hope all is well with you and your flock all we can do is soldier on!!! :thumbsup:
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Bird woman » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:37 pm

Well everybody is out of quarantine now and let the healing and surgeries begain. :roll: pearl is first out of surgery and I'm afraid the doctor did more harm than good. After he took this hard sphere collar off her which I had questioned him about after surgery and then a few days later at the discomfort it was causing her there were 5 new wounds around her neck and on her cheek bone. I am still furious and have spent the last 2 weeks bandaging and keeping her with me 24/7 till they were healed and she no longer zeroed in on them. I even had a compounding pharmacy make up a numbing cream after the vet called in the script. This whole situation is really making me rethink where to take the rest for maijor medical. All blood work has come out good on the bright side and all the birds are settling in well. Pearl is feathering up nicely but is becoming spoiled rotten but it can't be helped at this point. I've been waiting 2 weeks now for the vet to consult with Dr. Olsen on what to do about YAYA'S broken wing. It's been like this for I think at least a year or two but the thought of it staying that way for one more second sickens me. Even with money to pay these vets seem to move to a beat of there own and defiantly don't move fast enough for me. I'll be calling a specialist myself today up in Portland and consulting another vet . Well life is busy and Nigel is still unpredictable and got me in the face again yesterday after being so sweet for the last few months. He was just sitting on my arm on the couch watching tv and wam!!!! Can't figure it out. :roll: :violin: I think he has PTSD because he can be running around the house and everything is fine and then start running around shaking his head with his Indian head dress straight in the air squealing like a crazy bird. And hitting his beak on whatever is handy. Any thoughts BW
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby liz » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:26 am

It could be PTSD. You also need to keep in mind that birdies can have head aches and belly aches like humans. I try to give more attention to the one who is acting up.
Myrtle tries to punish me for when she thinks Rainbow is getting too much attention. She will fly to me and bite me then fly away before I can respond. She never breaks skin but it does hurt. I try to ignore it in hopes she will think she has not accomplished anything by biting me. I use "owe" to let her know when she hurts me by accident or while we are playing.

Each little bird has it's own personality. We just never know what is going on in their little minds. Rainbow is the only one who can communicate with me enough to let me know what is going on. The rest I just deal with what they are doing at the time.

There is no telling what your little feather head is going through that makes a quick change in his personality. Of course you know it. I just like to pass it on to those who have not thought about it.
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Bird woman » Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:57 am

Honestly I think he punishes me for the lack of attention from my husband. He was obviously a male bonded bird when he arrived seeking attention from any male figure that was around and very guarded with me. He is pretty loving with me but still swoons over my husband when he's around. Honestly even after all this time I should have never let my guard down.This was the second bite to the face . My husband is pretty afraid of him and Nigel gets all twisted up when he won't let him up and dote on him , so I caught the blunt of it. He bites hard and twists his head while he's doing it and is quick as a rattlesnake. :lol: BW
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Pajarita » Fri Jul 07, 2017 1:18 pm

Toos can be quite unpredictable in their reactions - no doubt about that! I got a good nip in a finger from Linus and all I was doing was holding up a piece of fruit for him to eat - and he knew exactly what he was doing, the little wretch! Birds will take it out on you if their chosen one doesn't pay attention to them, that's a fact! Hang in there, they need an entire year of a strict solar schedule before their bodies are back to normal 100% and time has a way of allowing these things to fix themselves on their own.

Poor Pearl! The sores must have been the proverbial icing on the cake with all her problems, surgery, etc. I don't normally use collars after surgery, I take them with me when I get the animal from the vet but I watch them like a hawk and would only put one on if I see the animal going at the wound all the time.

As to the wing, has the break knitted already but crooked? Is that the problem? Or is that the bones never did knit and are still 'loose'? My first rescue, Pretty Bird, a red-lored amazon, had both her legs broken when she was either a baby or very young. One of them had knitted back - crooked but it was 'whole' (her leg had a pronounced bow because of it) but the other leg had never knitted and the ends of the split bone had made a lot of scar bone tissue. My vet said to leave it alone, that she was used to it but the mere thought of the bones moving inside her leg every time she walked, climbed or move when she was perching made me cringe so a specialist was called to do surgery along with my own avian vet. They filed down the 'knobs' at both ends, put a steel rod to join the bone together and an external fixator to hold the whole thing in place. I had to bring her for XRays once a week to ensure that everything was going as it should. Some weeks later, they removed the steel rod and the external fixator and put a cast on it - again, XRays once a week. Finally, when they say the bone had knitted properly, they took it out. That leg ended up shorter than normal but because her other leg was bowed, she did not limp much even though her gait was kind of glitchy. But, fast forward a few years, she ended up with bone cancer and it started in the leg that had had the surgery. I've always felt guilty about this because I couldn't help but feel that maybe the surgery I insisted on was the cause of it...

The point that I am trying to make is that, in my personal opinion, if the problem is that a bone knitted crooked and the wing/leg/foot/etc is just unsightly but it's not causing the animal pain or discomfort in any way, it's best to leave it alone.
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Bird woman » Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:17 pm

The bone is just flopping around in there and has caused significant calcification in her shoulder area. I really feel guilty for anymore days that this is not fixed but can't seem to get the doc moving on it. I'm checking a Dr litner out now suppose to be very good but is 41/2 hours away. God pearl is changing fast , all but 1 of the sores are healed and she is really starting to act like a pestky spoiled too. :shock: my fault :lol: and yes Nigel seems to be a get even and go off for nothing kind of a guy. I'm sure he thinks he's got a reason . He will never be fit for rehoming and I'm sure this is why he ended up here. I think he is one of the smartest in the household and definitely the busiest and Riki the big mollucan would just be lost without him. They are the terrible too together , the grew some twosome and get into everything together and will run off to be alone in another room. :roll: Nigel is lightning quick and Riki will invite him on the couch or under the blanket with her and they both get beak to beak butterliping and the minute Nigel lets his guard down she bounces him. He's like a sick puppy with her and goes right back for more and she uses him. They both together are pretty entertaining until they want to be on me and put me in the middle of it. :shock: kind of a sick love game they play. I'm hiding in the back room right now waiting for these carpenters to get finished with the new flooring in the 2 spare rooms. No more carpet anywhere !!! I'm excited. BW
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby liz » Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:12 am

I gave up carpet many years ago. With my critters having a pet door and not wiping their feet my carpets needed shampooed every 3 months. I went to laminent. I still need a vacuum cleaner. That is the only way to control the bird dander. Sweeping just moves it around.

I can't use a noisy vacuum in the Cockatiel room so I sweep and then damp mop daily to control it.
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Re: Little bird rescues

Postby Pajarita » Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:51 am

Ah, yes, Pretty Bird also had the 'bone flopping around' and I couldn't stop picturing the bone moving and poking the poor bird from the inside and thinking of how terribly painful or, at the very least, severely uncomfortable and disabling that had to be! It's not easy to find a specialist that is willing to perform that surgery because it takes hours of work, it's VERY delicate work, apparently (although I don't see why... I mean, the only thing is that they have to file down the calcium deposits down because, after that, it should be like fixing up a recent break, no?) and the follow up treatment is a doozy! It took my avian vet a number of weeks and she even 'advertised' in a website that avian vets share for information, consultations, etc (has your vet done this? I don't know if it's still up and running but I would assume it is). We ended up with a professor from PennU where they have a great avian department but that's way too far for you.

YAAAAYYYY on the carpets! I HATE them! I can't stop thinking about all the dirt and bacteria that is at the bottom and that I cannot get rid of no matter how much I shampoo them!
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