Post by msdani1981 on Apr 4, 2015 23:50:23 GMT -5
Pico, our 10 month old male Pacific Parrotlet, is sick...or something.
About 2 1/2 weeks ago, I took him to the vet because we noticed that he was sneezing, sitting fluffed up on the bottom of his cage regularly, and sleeping a lot more than usual. She said that he seemed fine, his lungs sounded clear, but said that I may have caught it so early that it wasn't too bad yet. So I did a round of Baytril.
Nothing has changed.
While we were at the vet the first time, one of the vet techs noticed some tiny bugs on the towel in Pico's carrier. The vet came back in and using her microscope, identified them as avian mites. She's been calling around to various specialists in the state, to find out the best way to treat him. On Tuesday we're bringing in all of the birds for a dose of Ivermectin (yes, the horse de-wormer!).
A week after the first appointment I took Pico back in to have some blood work done, because nothing had changed. Everything came back normal. Phew.
Tonight Zach and I noticed that Pico sits and shakes. His whole body shakes. I picked him up from Zach's hand and I said out loud "Is my hand shaking, or is that YOU, Pico???" Zach said it's Pico.
I recently clipped Pico's wings, because he's not good at flying and it was dangerous for him. He kept flying into the walls, and the final straw was when he flew straight UP, hit the ceiling and crashed to the floor. He was fine afterward, but I'm wondering if he may have some brain damage? I'll talk to the vet about this possibility on Tuesday, but what do you all think??
About 2 1/2 weeks ago, I took him to the vet because we noticed that he was sneezing, sitting fluffed up on the bottom of his cage regularly, and sleeping a lot more than usual. She said that he seemed fine, his lungs sounded clear, but said that I may have caught it so early that it wasn't too bad yet. So I did a round of Baytril.
Nothing has changed.
While we were at the vet the first time, one of the vet techs noticed some tiny bugs on the towel in Pico's carrier. The vet came back in and using her microscope, identified them as avian mites. She's been calling around to various specialists in the state, to find out the best way to treat him. On Tuesday we're bringing in all of the birds for a dose of Ivermectin (yes, the horse de-wormer!).
A week after the first appointment I took Pico back in to have some blood work done, because nothing had changed. Everything came back normal. Phew.
Tonight Zach and I noticed that Pico sits and shakes. His whole body shakes. I picked him up from Zach's hand and I said out loud "Is my hand shaking, or is that YOU, Pico???" Zach said it's Pico.
I recently clipped Pico's wings, because he's not good at flying and it was dangerous for him. He kept flying into the walls, and the final straw was when he flew straight UP, hit the ceiling and crashed to the floor. He was fine afterward, but I'm wondering if he may have some brain damage? I'll talk to the vet about this possibility on Tuesday, but what do you all think??
But, it seems to me that if there were neurological damage, you would likely see it somewhere in his balance or in some other function of his body, like a dropped wing, for example. 
