Any advice (other than go to an avian vet- we don't have many here so are hard to get into, they are a 5 hour drive which just stresses them out more, and they just charge $750 a visit to take a fecal smear and say it's fine)???
I have a 15 year old pearly conure female with a history of crop problems (taken too early from the nest). She is fed a diet of Harrison's Lifetime/seed mix/egg food with a bit of canola oil (recommended by an avian nutritionist as her cage mate (green cheek male) had a heart murmur); she has actually been keeping her weight on and we haven't had any crop problems in the last year and a half since starting this diet. They get only a little bit of veggies every couple days and a small piece of fruit once a week (used to have mash every day but wasn't working for them as they got older, and she cant have much fruit due to the crop issues), millet, nutri-berries, nuts, and 100% almond butter (to help keep her weight on). I have been giving her Harrison's Flora Fauna, which I feel was also helping.
A couple of days ago she started doing a very weird type of regurgitation/vomiting- I am used to how she normally does it when she has had crop infection/issues in the past but this is entirely different. It seems to be mainly after drinking water and it is almost like if she were a cow bringing up cud (don't see or smell anything but big neck stretches) and her crop seems to not be getting full at all, even though she is eating normally and her energy is fine (basically she is seeming entirely normal otherwise). But mommy is worried! Because of it having been so difficult to keep weight on her I have a scale and monitor her a couple times a week- also normal.
Does anyone have any ideas? Have you ever seen this before???
Please help
I have a 15 year old pearly conure female with a history of crop problems (taken too early from the nest). She is fed a diet of Harrison's Lifetime/seed mix/egg food with a bit of canola oil (recommended by an avian nutritionist as her cage mate (green cheek male) had a heart murmur); she has actually been keeping her weight on and we haven't had any crop problems in the last year and a half since starting this diet. They get only a little bit of veggies every couple days and a small piece of fruit once a week (used to have mash every day but wasn't working for them as they got older, and she cant have much fruit due to the crop issues), millet, nutri-berries, nuts, and 100% almond butter (to help keep her weight on). I have been giving her Harrison's Flora Fauna, which I feel was also helping.
A couple of days ago she started doing a very weird type of regurgitation/vomiting- I am used to how she normally does it when she has had crop infection/issues in the past but this is entirely different. It seems to be mainly after drinking water and it is almost like if she were a cow bringing up cud (don't see or smell anything but big neck stretches) and her crop seems to not be getting full at all, even though she is eating normally and her energy is fine (basically she is seeming entirely normal otherwise). But mommy is worried! Because of it having been so difficult to keep weight on her I have a scale and monitor her a couple times a week- also normal.
Does anyone have any ideas? Have you ever seen this before???
Please help
But I'm replying to bump your thread up and hopefully someone will see it!
