@yasha2802
I would like to pick Ace up and hug him and tell him he's he's got a good Mom/Dad and that nothing bad is going to happen to him ever again.
The tests you should ask the vet to do are a CBC (complete blood count) a Chem Panel ( measures the chemistry in the blood) and a nasal and anal swab and gram stain (checks for bacteria or fungus.) Along with the complete physical exam - I hope the vet does - this should tell you a lot about Ace's condition and where the Dr. needs to go from there. Ace should also have xrays of his feet and wing. That's going to be pretty pricey, so if you ca't go the whole route do the CBC and Chem panel and save up for the xrays.
I'll mention it, but I expect the Dr. will do it, he should look at whatever comes out of his nostrils under the microscope.
Let us know what happens at the vet's office.
Thank you.
It would be nice if he still let me hug him as a baby he would sit on my desk and watch me play the pc while playing with his toys and was always up yo hugs and scratches. That stopped after 2 vet visits years ago he started seeing being held as bad. Still likes cuddling from in the cage. You would laugh if you saw me half my body in the cage giving him pets and kisses or doing the same when hes on the door. Hanging from the cage door for loving is his favorite. I really hope he stops being mad at me I get the evil eye now if I try to even give him a treat. Before now he even started taken treats from my BF now he wont taken it from me. I even tried eating some carob coated raisins with him(I've taken to eating a few with him when I give him one) and he would take it from me or eat it out of his bowl after I dropped it till I left him alone. I don't know if after the vet I should leave him be or keep going to him with food and love and see if he forgives me.
I don't know the vet we will be seeing I hope I like them. The vet my sister sees there is very nice and has turned down doing test in 1 visit because my sisters grey was acting to scared to continue, she didn't want to stress her to much. I logged onto the website and they do have a number of tests listed as do. There list has Exotic Gram Stain, Exotic PBDF(Beak & Feather te, Exotic Poloma test, Exotic Chlamydia(psittacosis/p, Exotic Avian Complete Profile, Exotic Fecal Trichrome(Giardi, Avian Wellness Exam. I'm guessing as he had some blood work as a baby with I got his wing treated and I've had him for 11 years some of these test aren't needed but that's just a guess. Sadly I don't have his old test results and that vet(he was a solo practice) is retired. Thank you for taken the time to list what I should get done and what is most portent. He may have even got rays as a young bird but I can't remember.
I'll make sure to update. I'm so scared of going with him but also can't want to get it done with.
If he is older & never been to the vet it would be good to have a good exam with a blood panel.
Does he have nails? His feet looks sort of clubbed.
Oh, I see one foot is missing. Maybe an accident from the parents when he was a baby along with the wing,
Makes it harder for him to get around esp with one wing problem but they can still live a happy life with some adjustments.
Does he have some platform perches? Mine love theres & they have good feet.
I know about birds who don't like to be touched. it is harder.
Hope everything is alright at the vet.
He has 2 nails on his 1 foot, 1 front and 1 back nail and just a peg on the other side. He was a breeders 1st grey baby and she said she found him that way to the 2nd breeder she gave him to as he was hurt and she didn't know how to care for him. That's all the 2nd breeder knew so told me she couldn't say if the parents did it as it was there 1st baby or if it was born that way. When I saw him the foot was fully healed(or never bloody) and the wing kept getting broken open till we had 2 laser treatments to make the skin heal faster that was about 10 years ago(I can't believe hes that old and I've had him for that long). Because of the wing blooding like it did I think it is more likely it was that parents attacking him then a birth defect but I'll never truly know.
Yea he has a harder time with walking or stepping up. That's part of the problem I'm having with him he can't step up and stopped liking being picked up. He can't fly at all he may as well be a dog when he falls(that's to say its a hard drop). He can hang on bars like a pro though. I'd like to think he's normally happy. He can get very moody though(makes me think he may have some pain time to time) and he's always been scared.
He has 2 by 1 I cut him for perches as well as a really thick Manzanita(?) perch and a shelf. He doesn't trust any of the perches and wont use them. He used the 2 by 1 when I 1st gave them to him but then he chewed at it till he fell now he wont step on them and doesn't even chew them. I've tried new ones, moving them and even putting toys and food past or on them with no luck. He will clime the walls or toy and hang on by 1 or both foot/leg and grab what he wants take it to a food bowl and sit on that to play with or eat what was on the perches. He even learned to untwist his crock bowls and drop them. Makes me scared he's going to fall from them and stop trusting them. O and he has a rope swing he completely ignores or hand from the top of the cage to play with the toy hanging in the middle. He used to sit on the swings as a younger bird and just stopped even though he has never been without one. I also used to use baby blankets on the bottom of the cage but he started eating them so had to stop doing that.
He can be a real handful and so hard to deal with. I try making stuff easier from him and he never accepts it or like the perches I made he does until he doesn't. I know his leg has to be sore from the bowls cutting into it most of the day but I am at a lost with how to help when he wont stand on anything I give him. I also put cardboard on the bottom of the cage and shelf it makes him now go on it or destroy it.
He doesn't normally mind me touching him normally he loves head scratches and well let me give him kisses now and then. I can also touch the good wing and his back for half a sec and he'll get mad but if I stop trying and just stay to the head he stops being mad. He won't stand on me as I think he feels to unstable and doesn't like me holding him any more.
I was just looking at older pictures of him that the breeder and I sent each other and here's one from when I got him shows you a little more of his foot and wing. I'm sure I have newer pictures to but he also hates the camera so I have less then my other pets and my folder of unsorted picture for the last few years has over 10,000 pictures. My older sorted pictures are on a external hard drive I need new cables for lol.
And for the fun of it here's a video of how he normally acts with me when hes in a good mood. He has points even normally where I can't put my hand by the cage or him unless I want to get attacked. This is his favorite place to sit and to get loves. I took the video the day I saw his nose so before he started hating me for giving him showers. IDK why the camera has so much white noise but it does and if you can hear his sounds he mades little wizzy like breathing/squicky sounds when he gets overly happy from pets. When he 1st started making the sounds I was thinking he was sick and took him to the vet to get tests. While we were there for that the vet said he could help the wing before that I was told by the breeder to just watch it and I didn't know anything could be done for it. In the middle/alittle after middle you can see him try to feed me and near the end you see him getting more bitey and starting to bite to hard. At the very end he whats to mate and that's normally when I walk away. He's always been a biter and chewer. I had/have shirts just for him and he used to chew the necks up while I held him. The breeder believed he always bite to feel more stable so I never stopped it as long as it wasn't to hard. The liking to put holes in my clothes was just accepted as part of holding him. Sorry for the dirty bars on the cage and also the camera looks like its really in his face but it for some reason defaults to zoomed all the way in. My phone/camera was well out of biting zone. If it wasn't I'm sure it would have a whole in it.
He may have a very hard to deal with personality and his disabilities make it even harder but I still call him my sweet baby boy on the days he wants to kill me and love him and much as I possibly could. The day my BF and Ace started getting along was the greatest day ever. It took over 8 years. My BF, mom and I all also have our own disabilities some of there's putting them in pain and making them bitey to so that's why I think he may all have some problems with pain. My disabilities are partly mental making it hard for people to deal with me so again can't fault him when I do the same lol. I am attracted to the hurt ones I guess people and animal. Maybe I shouldn't have got a grey with so many problems when I was so young. I didn't know how different to my smaller parrots/birds he'd be. I had very sweet birds I could just walk all over the house with. They all only seemed to care for me but were well behaved and loving to me. My lovebird the day I when to meet her I was told how she had bit everyone that came to see her and even tried killing the ladys macaw. Well she also took a good bite at me. I still took her home and she got to the point I could let her sit on my shoulder. We were hand raising cockatiels at the time I she was on my shoulder as normal when something popped into my head to try feeding her baby food. From that day on I could do anything I wanted with her but she would be bitey with everyone of my family and if I tried to walk away from her shed fly to me She had to be put down because of a tumor taken up her whole body. I also has sparrow and pigeons that were never caged and would always fly to me. The sparrow with sit on my hands and try to rip skin off while I played on the pc and the pigeon would sit on my head peeking it. Point of all that I didn't know a grey would be so different to start with and under estimated how much more so with his disabilities. Not unhappy I have him. I haven't had 1 day I didn't like having him here but if I know then what I know now I would have been able to work with him better. I wish I found him when I was a little wiser. I feel like him being so hard to work with is a lot my fault, a small portion personality, and a little portion disabilities.
I'm sorry I found myself siting here alone in the dark when I should be asleep to get up in time for the bird show writing my life story for some reason. Completely uncalled for but before I knew it I looked up and saw this mess so I'll just leave it for anyone interested in reading it.
