Hey everyone, I know this is long and I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read it and maybe can give me advice.
I adopted a timneh african grey about 10 months ago.
I already have 2 galah cockatoos and when i got the TAG I quarantined him for approximately a month and he showed no signs of illness.
He is very aggressive and hard to deal with and that’s the main reason me and my family decided to adopt him, he’s a very independent bird who doesn’t like to be told what to do and has a very strong personality. attacks heads and feet and bites and doesn’t know the concept of stepping up on hands.
Anyways, a lot of his bad behavior is starting to decrease with time and patience.
Around the beginning of march I noticed he had fishy breath when i get close to him and he speaks directly to my face.
I knew something wasn’t right so I searched everywhere for an avian vet and sadly I couldn’t find even one in the whole country.
All i could find is general vets and one of them performed surgeries on smaller birds and succeeded so I took my TAG there and he checked him physically and checked the inside of his beak and found yellowish plaque, so he said the bird has chlamydia and it caused the plaque to build up inside his crop and beak.
He cleaned it manually the he gave me 3 syringes (3 ml each) with medicine inside and told me to put 1.5 ml in his drinking water everyday for 6 days, I asked him about the name of the medicine and he said it’s neomycin.
So we started the meds on the 8th of march.
The next day I searched a lot about chlamydia and none of the symptoms describe my bird but seeing i started the meds I couldn’t stop, and part of me really wanted to trust the vet since I have no other option.
On the 3rd day the smell disappeared completely! it was a success and i was so happy that it worked.
Until 3 days ago when i started to smell it again
He doesn’t have it all the time and i noticed it at night when he’s covered inside his cage and i come to check on him.
When i raise the cage cover he greets me and i can smell it.
Notice that I don’t smell it when he isn’t vocal at all.
I immediately contacted my first vet describing everything and he told me to bring him again for a checkup.
I asked him if they can take a sample of what’s in his crop or beak and do a test and he said we only do clinical diagnosis.
And then the search for an avian vet started again, i contacted famous bird owners, shelters, vets and even went on Linked In and had a prolonged search.
Now i’m 100% sure we don’t have an avian vet in the whole country.
And I don’t want to stress him out by taking him to checkups by incompetent vets. (He gets extremely stressed out because he doesn’t like to be touched even by me although he likes me)
When i first searched for the foul breath i came across a couple of diseases and one of them is bacterial infection caused by vit A deficiency and since then (march) I increased his vit A intake tremendously in his daily chop and by giving him red palm oil and he loves it
Other diseases symptoms were all the same and include: Loss of appetite, lethargy, nasal discharge, weakness, diarrhea and so on
But he shows no signs of these symptoms. He’s quite energetic and plays all day long outside the cage, and he goes crazy when it’s meal time.
The other thing I found is the possibility of a sour crop and i read to check the crop first thing in the morning to see if it’s full and the food doesn’t pass. I did it today and it wasn’t full and i checked again after eating (to make sure i was looking at the right area) and it was full.
I can’t find any way to diagnose him properly to give the correct medication and i’m losing my mind.
I even started adding ACV to his water 2 days ago and he likes it and drinks it.
But i came across falcons vets in my area through my search (falcons are very popular in Saudi Arabia and people care about them A LOT)
Do you think a falcon vet can diagnose a parrot?
Anatomy-wise. Do you think parrots and falcons are similar?
I included pictures of him to see if you can see something I can’t.
I adopted a timneh african grey about 10 months ago.
I already have 2 galah cockatoos and when i got the TAG I quarantined him for approximately a month and he showed no signs of illness.
He is very aggressive and hard to deal with and that’s the main reason me and my family decided to adopt him, he’s a very independent bird who doesn’t like to be told what to do and has a very strong personality. attacks heads and feet and bites and doesn’t know the concept of stepping up on hands.
Anyways, a lot of his bad behavior is starting to decrease with time and patience.
Around the beginning of march I noticed he had fishy breath when i get close to him and he speaks directly to my face.
I knew something wasn’t right so I searched everywhere for an avian vet and sadly I couldn’t find even one in the whole country.
All i could find is general vets and one of them performed surgeries on smaller birds and succeeded so I took my TAG there and he checked him physically and checked the inside of his beak and found yellowish plaque, so he said the bird has chlamydia and it caused the plaque to build up inside his crop and beak.
He cleaned it manually the he gave me 3 syringes (3 ml each) with medicine inside and told me to put 1.5 ml in his drinking water everyday for 6 days, I asked him about the name of the medicine and he said it’s neomycin.
So we started the meds on the 8th of march.
The next day I searched a lot about chlamydia and none of the symptoms describe my bird but seeing i started the meds I couldn’t stop, and part of me really wanted to trust the vet since I have no other option.
On the 3rd day the smell disappeared completely! it was a success and i was so happy that it worked.
Until 3 days ago when i started to smell it again
He doesn’t have it all the time and i noticed it at night when he’s covered inside his cage and i come to check on him.
When i raise the cage cover he greets me and i can smell it.
Notice that I don’t smell it when he isn’t vocal at all.
I immediately contacted my first vet describing everything and he told me to bring him again for a checkup.
I asked him if they can take a sample of what’s in his crop or beak and do a test and he said we only do clinical diagnosis.
And then the search for an avian vet started again, i contacted famous bird owners, shelters, vets and even went on Linked In and had a prolonged search.
Now i’m 100% sure we don’t have an avian vet in the whole country.
And I don’t want to stress him out by taking him to checkups by incompetent vets. (He gets extremely stressed out because he doesn’t like to be touched even by me although he likes me)
When i first searched for the foul breath i came across a couple of diseases and one of them is bacterial infection caused by vit A deficiency and since then (march) I increased his vit A intake tremendously in his daily chop and by giving him red palm oil and he loves it
Other diseases symptoms were all the same and include: Loss of appetite, lethargy, nasal discharge, weakness, diarrhea and so on
But he shows no signs of these symptoms. He’s quite energetic and plays all day long outside the cage, and he goes crazy when it’s meal time.
The other thing I found is the possibility of a sour crop and i read to check the crop first thing in the morning to see if it’s full and the food doesn’t pass. I did it today and it wasn’t full and i checked again after eating (to make sure i was looking at the right area) and it was full.
I can’t find any way to diagnose him properly to give the correct medication and i’m losing my mind.
I even started adding ACV to his water 2 days ago and he likes it and drinks it.
But i came across falcons vets in my area through my search (falcons are very popular in Saudi Arabia and people care about them A LOT)
Do you think a falcon vet can diagnose a parrot?
Anatomy-wise. Do you think parrots and falcons are similar?
I included pictures of him to see if you can see something I can’t.
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