CGrillo
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- Claudia Grillo
Hello I’m new to these forums.
So my budgie Luke Is 3 years old has been experiencing wet droppings occasionally for a couple months and then 2 weeks ago it was pretty much every dropping that was wet so I called so many vets and most of the avian vets in my area are on leave due to COVID but I found this one place and called them to see if they would take him in. I brought him and they checked his droppings under a black light and did a gram stain and sent me home with an antibiotic called “Tylan”. The result of the gram stain was a “moderate infection - gram positive”. So the vet told me to try the tylan and see how it goes for a few days, if not he will prescribe me a new and stronger medication. So I try it and then it seemed it was getting better but after going back and forth with the vet he was on Tylan for 10 days and after 24 hrs he got was off the medication his droppings went back to being watery again. Calling this vet Has been like pulling teeth (they are closed on the weekends and the front desk is always telling me that The doctor will call me back and then he never does) so I’m very stressed out and feel hopeless over the situation because I can never get ahold of this vet and there are no other places nearby and im over $200 in the hole. I’m waiting to see if he can give him the new meds tomorrow but they are closed At the moment but this doctor also doesn’t explain much to me so I just feel so lost and confused about what’s going on with my bird. The symptoms I noticed are wet poop with mucus, he also scratches his vent with his foot which I’ve seen him do before but I feel like I notice it more and Can’t tell if it’s related or not. I’ve seen some of his droppings have bubbles but only one or 2 per dropping and most droppings don’t have them, His pile of poops in the morning have a slight odor to them, and he seems a lot more tired but he’s still pretty active. He eats Natural Select Parakeet Diet which is seeds with a couple of pellets (I know I’m trying to get him off of seeds). I usually give him spinach but haven’t given him it since he’s been sick because I don’t want to make it worse. In the attachments Are a photo of this mornings poop and this afternoons poop
Please if anyone can give me some advice or some piece of mind on the situation I would so much appreciate it. I’ve been so stressed because he’s my bird baby! Thank you
So my budgie Luke Is 3 years old has been experiencing wet droppings occasionally for a couple months and then 2 weeks ago it was pretty much every dropping that was wet so I called so many vets and most of the avian vets in my area are on leave due to COVID but I found this one place and called them to see if they would take him in. I brought him and they checked his droppings under a black light and did a gram stain and sent me home with an antibiotic called “Tylan”. The result of the gram stain was a “moderate infection - gram positive”. So the vet told me to try the tylan and see how it goes for a few days, if not he will prescribe me a new and stronger medication. So I try it and then it seemed it was getting better but after going back and forth with the vet he was on Tylan for 10 days and after 24 hrs he got was off the medication his droppings went back to being watery again. Calling this vet Has been like pulling teeth (they are closed on the weekends and the front desk is always telling me that The doctor will call me back and then he never does) so I’m very stressed out and feel hopeless over the situation because I can never get ahold of this vet and there are no other places nearby and im over $200 in the hole. I’m waiting to see if he can give him the new meds tomorrow but they are closed At the moment but this doctor also doesn’t explain much to me so I just feel so lost and confused about what’s going on with my bird. The symptoms I noticed are wet poop with mucus, he also scratches his vent with his foot which I’ve seen him do before but I feel like I notice it more and Can’t tell if it’s related or not. I’ve seen some of his droppings have bubbles but only one or 2 per dropping and most droppings don’t have them, His pile of poops in the morning have a slight odor to them, and he seems a lot more tired but he’s still pretty active. He eats Natural Select Parakeet Diet which is seeds with a couple of pellets (I know I’m trying to get him off of seeds). I usually give him spinach but haven’t given him it since he’s been sick because I don’t want to make it worse. In the attachments Are a photo of this mornings poop and this afternoons poop
Please if anyone can give me some advice or some piece of mind on the situation I would so much appreciate it. I’ve been so stressed because he’s my bird baby! Thank you
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