Well we are getting along pretty well. I'm letting him out of the cage for about 6 h a day, or more, depends if I'm at university or not that day.
When he's out he just waddles around the floor, or just flies around me. One time he flew and landed on my had, it was a funny moment.
He's not as afraid of my hands as he used to be. I give him sunflower seeds out of my hands and he now knows that when my hand comes near him, it usually brings a treat. One day I managed to pet him on his head. It was more like a little scratch behind his head, but he only let me do it for about 5 seconds then he ran away.
I'm worried with him. For the past week he stopped flying. He still wonders around the room, but less flying. His feathers are dirty of droppings but I'm afraid to wash him, not to pull any feathers, or maybe he gets a cold if I let him to wash himself in a bowl of water. I don't know.
But what worries me the most is that he had white watery droppings as I stated above.
Took him to a vet and they told me to give him a medication in his water. It had
Silver Sulfadiazine and
Trimethoprim. They said it's for the white watery droppings.
I've ended the treatment today. His droppings are solid again, but they are all white.
I'm an VET student actually. I'm in my first year so I don't know much about birds yet. All I've learned at Anatomy are bones and muscles so far. But I asked a little around my uni and they said it could be some kind of parasite. I'll ask my professors when I get back to Uni, as I'm in winter holidays.
Maybe you guys know anything about that?
Last time when he had watery droppings I gave him
Doxycycline. That seemed to make the trick.
First watery droppings : I assumed it was because of the stress. Because he just came into a new home, a new world for him, a scary one indeed. Where all of his friends are missing. But there's a huge "predator" lurking around in the same room as him (me).
Second watery droppings : I assumed it was because of his water maybe. I gave him the same water as I drink. And I thought it was clean. Maybe it is I still don't know. But I started boiling his water then give it to him.
All his medication were administrated trough his water. The water was firstly boiled then mixed with the medications.
I don't know what the cause of the white poop is yet but I'll try to find out.
Until then, any ideas on what it could be?
How can I bathe him? It's ok if I just leave him near an bowl full of warm water? So he can jump and play in it as he wishes? I think he doesn't fly anymore because he has poop all over his wings.
Just to make it clear, he doesn't have poop on his butt, like I've read online. He has droppings on his tail feathers and some on the left wing feathers. He got all dirty when he had watery droppings and used to run around in his cage, in his own droppings...
Oh and
@Milo , you said you had some ideas on the foraging toys and activities, could you share them with me please?
Thank you all for reading.