MacawXena
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I'm a Swede living in Bali and animal welfare here is.... under standards to say the least. I came across a Macaw and decided to buy her as she was just sitting on a tiny chain 24/7. Got her 5 days ago, the owner says she is 3 years old.
So, the owner has fed her with baby food via a syringe for all this time... I would be surprised if she doesn't have problems already caused by this incredibly fatty food. Anyway, I'm worried his syringe feeding has somehow hurt her trachea. I've noticed that she breathes a lot with an open mouth and that she is fluffy majority of the time. She makes "hiccup" sounds (I know they can't actually have hiccups) and twitches her wings sometimes. I've read that this can also be signs of being hormonal, and I do notice that her fluffiness/head bobbing etc goes away when I go away. But it has been going on for 3 days now. I've already made an appointment with basically the only avian vet on the island, but that is two days from now. And I'm also quite familiar with the vets on Bali as I'm involved with dog rescue, and they don't really have the same equipment/knowledge as you'd find in other countries.
Symptoms:
- open mouth breathing
- hiccup sounds accompanied by wing twitches
- fluffed up
- forward tilted (almost laying down on the perch sometimes)
Any advice on what this could be, what I can do and how I can best "guide" the veterinary?
So, the owner has fed her with baby food via a syringe for all this time... I would be surprised if she doesn't have problems already caused by this incredibly fatty food. Anyway, I'm worried his syringe feeding has somehow hurt her trachea. I've noticed that she breathes a lot with an open mouth and that she is fluffy majority of the time. She makes "hiccup" sounds (I know they can't actually have hiccups) and twitches her wings sometimes. I've read that this can also be signs of being hormonal, and I do notice that her fluffiness/head bobbing etc goes away when I go away. But it has been going on for 3 days now. I've already made an appointment with basically the only avian vet on the island, but that is two days from now. And I'm also quite familiar with the vets on Bali as I'm involved with dog rescue, and they don't really have the same equipment/knowledge as you'd find in other countries.
Symptoms:
- open mouth breathing
- hiccup sounds accompanied by wing twitches
- fluffed up
- forward tilted (almost laying down on the perch sometimes)
Any advice on what this could be, what I can do and how I can best "guide" the veterinary?
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