Eww! A worm?

[Vicki5280]

Thanks for the feedback. I've been checking on him throughout the night and so far, so good. No worms yet though.

I, too, wondered about the Florida thing, but he wasn't the only one I heard it from. Everything I've learned from reading about them tells me that there pretty much everywhere. (shrug) Oh well, I'll ask him about it another time.

Will keep y'all posted, but right now he's down there squawking for me to get up and feed hisself, so I'd better get!

[patdbunny]

I called early this morning to make an appointment with the "ONLY" vet I'm supposed to allow to breathe the same air as my birds (or so I've been told by "everyone"). He wasn't available, so I was forced to settle for "The Anti-christ Vet." As it turns out, this guy wasn't so bad after all, and I'll be seeing him for all my flock's needs in the future. Sue me "everyone", I make my own decisions.

Ok, I missed something here. What's up? I'm with you. This new vet sounds like a keeper. I tried to "search" a prior post about your vet decisions, but I was too lazy to wade through 10+ pages.

The Florida thing, I've heard that too. Didn't think much about it. I was under the impression that it has/had something to do with husbandry practices of using suspended flights vs. caging that allows access to the floors; but that doesn't really make sense since ascarids are transmitted through feces.

I prophylactically worm all new acquisitions w/ pyrantel pamoate and prizanquantel, and worm annually any birds that have access to the ground outside. I don't worm the chickens or peafowl. . . Huh. . . maybe I need to look into whether I should worm them too.

[Vicki5280]

I called early this morning to make an appointment with the "ONLY" vet I'm supposed to allow to breathe the same air as my birds (or so I've been told by "everyone"). He wasn't available, so I was forced to settle for "The Anti-christ Vet." As it turns out, this guy wasn't so bad after all, and I'll be seeing him for all my flock's needs in the future. Sue me "everyone", I make my own decisions.

Ok, I missed something here. What's up?

Oh, it's not that much of a biggie. In my area, there's a particular vet who's very well respected in the avian community. I've been told by more than one person ("everyone") to see HIM and ONLY HIM. The avian vet who is in practice with him isn't <gasp!> HIM! Therefore he's a worthless substitute, or "The Anti-christ Vet" (his words, not mine! lol!).
However, he's been in practice for quite a while, and if I understood him correctly, he did a stint with the birds at the Honolulu Zoo. That seems tropical to me, and if he didn't learn something about parrots there, then he's not teachable. Bottom line, I decided I didn't care what "everybody" else thought, I liked the guy and he'll be seeing my birds until he loses my trust.

I prophylactically worm all new acquisitions w/ pyrantel pamoate and prizanquantel, and worm annually any birds that have access to the ground outside. I don't worm the chickens or peafowl. . . Huh. . . maybe I need to look into whether I should worm them too.

Interesting you bring that up. In every search I did for avian roundworms, 90-95% of the professional articles I found were related to chickens. I extrapolated from that info to try and determine what to expect for my parrot. Maybe I wasn't using the right search criteria, but that's what I ended up with. The long and short of what I found was: worm your chickens.

[patdbunny]

[CheekyandMalolo]

Can I ask why you wouldn't want Ivermectin?? Is there something wrong with ivermectin? It's one of the ones I worm my horse with.

[liz]

Anything that eats off the ground (chickens) can pick up roundworms. That is the reason you never put dog and cat food on the ground. You can get chicken wormer cheaper at a farm supply store than at the vets.

[birdvet]

Can I ask why you wouldn't want Ivermectin?? Is there something wrong with ivermectin? It's one of the ones I worm my horse with.

Nothing wrong with Ivermectin, I use it all the time, except in birds (and other animals) with ascarids because it kills the worms too fast and may result in impaction and intestinal rupture. That is why it is important to perform faecal testing on your birds if they have outside time exposed to wild birds so you know what worms (if any) they're infected with.