Pictures Bunch o' Budgies

[AussieBird]

Back at the vets... I'm hoping we can go home with some solid answers this time. She's been handling everything SO well.


Interestingly, she's not the only budgie patient in today either... the other sassy little EB bit me really good. Don’t underestimate female budgies' beak strength...

 

[AussieBird]

I'll try to make a thread on just her I think...
Still finding basically nothing. On a bunch of meds now.
She's over everything at this point. Medicating her last time was super easy but she's hit her limit on being manhandled

 

[patchyjoon]

Back at the vets... I'm hoping we can go home with some solid answers this time. She's been handling everything SO well.
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Interestingly, she's not the only budgie patient in today either... the other sassy little EB bit me really good. Don’t underestimate female budgies' beak strength...

Have you tried testing for ABV/PDD?

 

[AussieBird]

Have you tried testing for ABV/PDD?

That is a good point...
There's no AV's here and a 6hr round trip isn't exactly an option for me right now. My vets' are quite willing to work with me within reason though so I will do my own research and can bring this up next week if needed (it's the weekend now and the vet now handling her is off, I've already had to bother her with a medication question this morning so I will not be contacting her anymore. Unless extremely urgent.)
I really was convinced it was AGY, but one fecal and two crop samples later and they've been seeing basically nothing. Bacteria, fungi, or protozoan.

 

[patchyjoon]

That is a good point...
There's no AV's here and a 6hr round trip isn't exactly an option for me right now. My vets' are quite willing to work with me within reason though so I will do my own research and can bring this up next week if needed (it's the weekend now and the vet now handling her is off, I've already had to bother her with a medication question this morning so I will not be contacting her anymore. Unless extremely urgent.)
I really was convinced it was AGY, but one fecal and two crop samples later and they've been seeing basically nothing. Bacteria, fungi, or protozoan.

The reason I bring it up is because I saw a budgie on another forum that was diagnosed with it and looked similarly rough as her. I hope you guys figure it out soon. Poor baby.

PDD is notoriously hard to diagnose as they only shed the virus periodically, so even getting a negative PCR test doesn't necessarily mean they don't have it.

That being said, is she losing weight? Forgive me, I tried to catch up on the thread but I think I'm missing a couple details. If it does end up being PDD we have our own PDD expert on the forum @T. gillii that can help you.

 

[AussieBird]

To avoid clogging up this one too much with just Em, I'll put anymore updates here.

Ongoing vomiting in budgie

A thread to consolidate as much as I can. Emelia periodically has vomiting episodes. Yes, it's vomiting, not regurgitating (I'm clarifying as two vets wanted to make sure it was definitely vomit :o:). She's about 6yrs old too. I took her to the vet in Jan, partially because I had a panic over...

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