Raisins
Sitting on the front steps
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- 9/1/22
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I brought one of my budgies to the vet today because she had dirty feathers around the vent and I have been worried about her increasing weight. They did an x-ray on her and diagnosed her with a lipoma.
They understandably prescribed a diet. The prescribed seed mix seems to have the same ingredients as the older one, but the ratio of the millet seeds to other seeds seems to be fewer, so that might be why it is healthier. What confused me is that they told me to stop adding pellets and vegetables into their food for a while. This seems to conflict with all the diet advise I read on the internet. I think she had the lipoma since last year, but it was only visible when you search for it around her abdomen. A different vet, also trained to treat birds, I visited last year concluded that it was an egg, but after no egg was passed for several days, I thought that they scammed me and switched to the vet that we see now.
They understandably prescribed a diet. The prescribed seed mix seems to have the same ingredients as the older one, but the ratio of the millet seeds to other seeds seems to be fewer, so that might be why it is healthier. What confused me is that they told me to stop adding pellets and vegetables into their food for a while. This seems to conflict with all the diet advise I read on the internet. I think she had the lipoma since last year, but it was only visible when you search for it around her abdomen. A different vet, also trained to treat birds, I visited last year concluded that it was an egg, but after no egg was passed for several days, I thought that they scammed me and switched to the vet that we see now.