by 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.