here is the story behind the question. my 3 year old male has some health issues, started at the end of may. his weight is alaways around 28/29gr.
his nose seemed infected. I started treating him with a product form Beaphar, Gezasept in the drinking water, to see if it would clear up. at first it did.
whe took him to our local vet with bird experience. he tested his feaces and took a swab from his nose and throat. he was tested for psittacosis: negative.
bacterial infection was found, so both birds were started on AB sulfatrim in the drinking water.
it went up and down, some days it looked better, other days it looked bad again.
then he was bleeding! offcourse on a sunday and no vet to turn too. i think he hurt himself by itching, his nose itches all the time. i put him in a hospital/warm cage and it did him good.
i contacted a well known avian vet by email, and send her the test results. she prescribed some nosedrops to use.
we finished the cure and it did get better, but it didnt clear completely.
we send her some feaces to test, bacteria were still there, so we started a new AB cure, Baytril.
it started to look better and better, but there seemed to grow something right next to his beak, on the other side:
he seemed fine, was eating and drinking well and was very active.
until last tuesday. i came downstairs in the morning. i always change their paper and take them out to weigh them and to check on them.
he stepped up and felt light, while his weight had gone up to 30gr.
he was also fluffed up. i didn't trust it and put him in the hospital/warmth cage before leaving for work. i had seen him eating, so i thought he would be fine.
in the evening i came home to this: a very sick looking bird, black stool on the bottom and it looked as if he had vomited.
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i thought i was going to loose him. he did eat but it took him a lot of effort.
he was too sick to take him out of his hospital cage and to transport him to the closest avian vet 60 minutes away.
we were hoping he would make it trough the night, but we were afraid to find him the next morning. he was still treated with AB at this moment.
next morning his eyes were clear again, he sat on his perch and was still fluffed up, but stool was looking almost normal again and he seemed active and eating.
weight had dropped to 28gr again. he looked pale.
he was getting better and better, temperature in the hospital cage was around 29 celsius. at thursday he wanted out and was vocalizing and climbing around in the small cage.
his lumb continued growing and we were still worried about him. he was still feeling a bit light when stepping up, although it was getting better, and he was looking tired at times,
also the pale feet and beak wasn't a good thing....
on thurday evening and friday morning we let the tempereature from the hospital cage go back from 29 to 26 degrees.
he was looking better on friday and was eating without problems, he kept a stable weight and his stool were normal.
we took him to the avian vet about 60minutes drive away. i was scared for what the stress would do to him, and was also scared to take him out the warm hospital cage.
thankfully it was a warm summer day...
the avian vet couldn't draw any blood because of his pale colour. she flushed his nostrils: nothing and no dirt coming out!
she put a needle inside the lumb, thinking it would be an abces; it wasn't. it was just a dry lumb. she looked under the microscobe but coulnd't find any bacterial stuff. the sample is send to a lab.
test results will come back this week.
since friday he is back in his own cage, is vocalizing and eating well.
he feels better when he steps up, not so light anymore. his weight is stable. his stools are looking as in the pictures i placed in the OP.
he is happy, looking healthy and bright again, but i don't trust it.
the AB cure was done on saturday (10 days) but i'm still continuing this untill i have the outcome from the lab.
this is him yesterday, his lumb is huge. don't know what to think of it.
avian vet is scared for cancer. i have googled and read some info and i am thinking about papilloma virus. we will have to wait for the results coming back...
Hope he will be OK
