Shadark
Sitting on the front steps
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- 9/11/21
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- Sergio Baamonde
Hello!
My SO has read in some instagram account about zinc meshes and that some cockatiels got some zinc poisoning due to them, so she got worried that our little boy Frodo could have the same problem with our current cage.
He's currently hospitalized due to some vomiting, crop inflammation but he's steadily recovering, apparently the pellet brand that we use could've not sit too well with him (Zupreem, at the vet he's with Versele-Laga Nutribird) because there he's eating alone and well.
However, the first time that he was hospitalized (he was hospitalized for a week, came home for 2 days, vomited again and we took him to the vet again) the vet saw a small dot in the x-ray and asked if he could've ingested any metal, honestly he's not a biter so we never saw him biting the cage bars or anything like that so I told her that as far as I knew, he hadn't eaten any metal, the vet suggested it could be some leftover grit (if I recall correctly) from the parents.
We're still gonna ask the vet if any of the symptoms could be explained due to zinc/metal poisoning just to be sure, if that's the case, how could we test for metals in our cage bars? I've read about muriatic acid (but we don't have any outdoors place to test) and magnets (bars are magnetized), but we could use some more advice. I've also read that if he doesn't bite any bars we really shouldn't worry but in any case we can never be too safe with our birds (even more considering he's been sick recently!).
Thanks for reading, and again any tips/comments are welcome! Have a good day
My SO has read in some instagram account about zinc meshes and that some cockatiels got some zinc poisoning due to them, so she got worried that our little boy Frodo could have the same problem with our current cage.
He's currently hospitalized due to some vomiting, crop inflammation but he's steadily recovering, apparently the pellet brand that we use could've not sit too well with him (Zupreem, at the vet he's with Versele-Laga Nutribird) because there he's eating alone and well.
However, the first time that he was hospitalized (he was hospitalized for a week, came home for 2 days, vomited again and we took him to the vet again) the vet saw a small dot in the x-ray and asked if he could've ingested any metal, honestly he's not a biter so we never saw him biting the cage bars or anything like that so I told her that as far as I knew, he hadn't eaten any metal, the vet suggested it could be some leftover grit (if I recall correctly) from the parents.
We're still gonna ask the vet if any of the symptoms could be explained due to zinc/metal poisoning just to be sure, if that's the case, how could we test for metals in our cage bars? I've read about muriatic acid (but we don't have any outdoors place to test) and magnets (bars are magnetized), but we could use some more advice. I've also read that if he doesn't bite any bars we really shouldn't worry but in any case we can never be too safe with our birds (even more considering he's been sick recently!).
Thanks for reading, and again any tips/comments are welcome! Have a good day
