by Wolf » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:30 pm
I am assuming from your posts and my knowledge of US geography that you are living in Arkansas, are you closer to Clarkburg or Jonesboro? I don't recall much about this particular area except for rice and mosquitos. Although it has been close to 30 years since my last foray through this area, I don't expect it to have changed much, unless it got more economically depressed, if that is possible.
Any way you can use either Navy beans or Great Northern beans, both are white beans and should work fine.
Try and see if there is an unsweetened fruit juice that Bean likes and if so try his medication mixed in the juice. I would be better than the yogurt in my opinion. Also you could try some baby food, the kind that comes in little jars, and again look for it to be unsweetened. I don't know what brands there are to choose from as I never had kids.
You might ask your local vet for a 1 to 5 ml syringe to use for feeding meds to your bird with. Then you could make a game of feeding him his juice two or three times and then medication and back to a little juice. Parrots can taste but not as well as you can, so this works pretty well most of the time although you may have to start off without any meds in the syringe until Bean remembers being hand fed and begins to like it again.