www.FeatherMe.com This video shows you how to administer medicine to your sick parrot. Apollo the sun conure parrot is taking Baytril for a respiratory infection. Learn more at www.FeatherMe.com
Awww poor boy, I'm glad he's well. I've had my Sun Conure 26 years and he's never been sick. I took him to the vets when I first got him and never took him again. He gets fresh fruit everyday and he's traveled by plane, boat, motorhome and car. I had a plumhead parakeet that lived to be 25 and he was never sick a day in his life. I find this interesting but I rarely get sick nor do I take any kind of prescription or over the counter meds. Just good healthy living at it's best!
I just moved from Tennessee to Oregon and we camped the entire way. That's my guess as to what did it. Strange sleeping patterns and constant change of temperature must have made him weak. He's doing better now it seems.
My cockatiel hated baytrill and we ended up in animal ER because I thought he was dying because his eyes got droopy after and he sounded like he was suffocating. Turns out he just hated the flavor and blew it through his nares. Haha.
he trusted me more than his other buddies...but since all those feeding episodes,he was reluctant to even step up on my finger...so i totally agree with spoon feeding sick birds.they find it playful and that keeps them happier and healthier.i stopped forcing my bird and and he went back to normal in like a week.he's the happiest boy now:)i hope your bird never gets sick again! cuz it hurts like a knife when they get ill !!
Thanks for the advice-wouldn't hurt to get all birds used to drinking a treat from a spoon before they even get sick so you will have better chance of getting the meds in
When My sun conure first got sick he was scared of the syringe as well. I put it on the spoon too and mixed a drop of syrup, he seemed to like it. He got a bacterial infection two years later, I used the syringe and he took it like a baby. I guess he loved the syrup flavor! Great video!
He was sick about 6 months ago and I think this was a relapse. For some reason captive parrots are horrible at fighting infections. We have him on the same dose of antibiotics he was on before but this time its less per dose with more doses. He's recovering wonderfully.
hi Apollo is not my bird , i don't know the answer to your question, keeping my birds warm during winter has been my way of keeping my birds healthy, my birds are very seldom sick, almost never sick. i keep them very warm in winter with a heater in their room.
I had to do this w/1 of my rescues. Another idea: if ur bird likes almond butter or bread products, u can also mix in the almond butter & smear on a piece of bread. I don't recommend mix w/sugar (or giving sugar period) cuz affects yeast in their system. Medicating birds is tough! Can someone do a vid on what flu viruses & illnesses r communicable between human & birds. Cuz I worry whenev I get sick., pinpointing symptoms can b tough.
Your videos are great! I have learned so many great, useful and unique tips from your videos that I have never come across anywhere else. Please keep making the vids!
Boy, have I got it made! Too bad I can't show you all the stuff I can do with my birds. Well, they're actually my father's but he's getting a heck of a deal with me taking care of them. You should check out Dr Ross Perry's videos. He's an Australian avian veterinarian and I learned everything from him and reading books on birds medical care, and I have crop fed, nasal flushed, given IM & SQ injection, blood draws from jugular vein, nail & beak trims, weighed them, treated them, etc.
It's cool you are being creative giving medicine to Apollo. I'm going to try apple juice next time I have to give her medicine. Thanks for the video :)
In Australia you have the best avian vet in the world. Dr. Ross Perry. I can't believe you haven't heard of him!!!!!!! I am so sorry about your bird. You have to look Dr. Perry up if you get another one. He is wonderful!!!!
way to go looking after your bird...!!!...he is adorable...some people probably wouldn't bother...although I can't think of why...I did that with my cockatiel also...and he is fine!!! I can see that you love your bird and that he loves you...way to go!!!!
wonderful! thankyou for the information! my greencheek has been well all his 13 years, but i always wondered how I would give such a small bird meds if needed. "Now I know! And knowing is half the battle!"
When I first got my lovebird I had to give him two weeks of antibiotics twice a day. Fun. He hated it even through it tasted like cherry. Catching him was awful.
ahhh you are so sweet with your birdy! i wish i new this when my budgie got sick. it was so hard to feed her, her med but i always gave her something tasty afterwards. she was a very sick bird though, and even had to have a tumor removed then got diabeties. she also had some anger problems for some reason she would always try to attack people lol and fly after them and almost draw blood all the time! she was not shy at all. but was very smart though, for a budgie
Thank you for this video. I am wondering...I have an old lovebird of 18 years old who doesn't drink and eat enough anymore. So I have to feed him with a syringe, which he hates. But I have to do it because he just won't eat enough himself, not even his most favourite snacks. Now we are doing this feeding with the two of us. I hold my bird and open his mouth, and my friend puts the baby food in his mouth with a syringe. Now I am wondering....how much should we squeeze in his mouth at once? Is it okay to squeeze 0.5 ml in his mouth at once? Or is that too much to swallow for him? Also is there any danger that the food gets into his lungs if we squeeze it in his mouth? After feeding him like this he seems fine and actually nibbling and enjoying it it looks like. I guess that's a good sign right? A sign also that we did it correct?
Hello Sun Conure love fresh oregano and oregano is good for colds infection thats there favorite herb and they love cuties walnuts,my son's conure like smoothies w/plain yogurt,berries,flax,honey,banana,fresh fruit,lentils,chick beans,just saying,prayer to St. Francis of Asiss too God Bless u all 😇
I also recently had a sick cockatiel bird - it was very sudden that he got sick, just started throwing up on me. So he was at the vet's in no less than 30 minutes from the second he started. It was determined he had a bit of a gut infection, so they also gave him Baytril - a shot at first, overnight holding in a incubator, and then I fed him Baytril 2x a day for a week. The shot did the trick almost immediately, the feedings he didn't mind as well, till around the last few days.
That's the best way. Ask your vet to show you have to give injections and ask your vet for the injectable form of meds next time. Just let him show you were the best spot is b/c flight muscles can be affected/best given in lower part of right pectoral muscle. The upper breast muscle is their main location of the much needed flight muscles. That, or your vet can teach you how to give the meds via crop.
I have a galah cockatoo that got a respiratory infection. I've also read that apple juice can be toxic to some parrots, one of the reasons being high arsenic levels. The way my vet said was to give it as the only water. If he gets thirsty he will drink.
my parrot got injured ion the eye lid...he was talking and chirping on his way to the emergency clinic...the doctor prescribed some eye drops for him and some medicine to be fed to him through a syringe...i had to forcefully feed him that and hold him like that to put those eye drops in his eyes....trust me,that scared the poor little guy like any thing...he was having a fever the next day from all the extra care,his droppings were runny...he was not eating and just wanted to sleep.
Nice. I like to se owners there only whis the best for there birds. And this is in deed a great way to give him the medicin. And whit the juice he took it at hes own free will. deffenly something i will try if my bird get sick and the medicin has to come in the beak.
I'm having to give my sun conure some antibiotics, too. He shakes a lot of it out. He's still breathing heavily so I really hope it's not a fungal infection instead.
The main thing is to keep up w/the checks, tests for diseases to make sure your bird is healthy and doesn't catch anything, and keep on eye on the organs (liver and kidney, spleen, etc.) Those can become diseased in birds or fail and need to make sure they are healthy and in working order. Get yourself a stethoscope so you can listen to the heart, lungs and breathing too. You have to stay on top of birds' health in order for them to live a long life (any exotic for that matter). Good luck.
I guess the bird teaches you to be creative as much as you teach it! This video made me sad though because it sucks when your pet isn't feeling well :(
I have learn with my Quaker that I offer a grape and he will take his Celebrex willing for me. He is so used to the syringe for me now, he understands but still likes to give me a hard time once in a great while. But I can understand your trouble with medicines for Apollo. Cynthia
Your so lucky. Here in Australia we dont get this kind of help for birds. Our Vets only care about dogs and cats. My bird passed away because I could not get the attention it needed within such a short time frame.
We recently had to give our GCC antibiotics and we had to do the exact thing, it was 0.1mL with exact syringe. We found what worked best was to just take the syringe with the antibiotics in the syringe and suck up her favourite type of juce (apple juce) and then she drank straight from the tip willingly. Found that worked the best.
No...it's a sun conure...Although they do look similar jendays have solid green wings.When sunnies are babies they have solid green wings but mature to the half yellow half green.
I imagine the reason most parrots in captivity get sick easier, is because (mostly) they are hand-fed... so they don't get the extra stuff that their parents would feed them that boosts their immune system when they are younger... just a guess (no, I am not trying to sound like I am smartass there... I am literally saying, its just a guess) anyways... so has he gotten any better?
Sweetest little thing… I need to get a geo tag for my bird :/ my macaw sounds so noticeably congested and it seems to be getting worse… can’t find much online
His story was he was with 12 other birds and in a hoarding situation.I rescued him as he was the worst and its cost me a lot of money sadly. 2 vets who were bird vets were not helpful and cost me $400. Im dealing with my own health stuff but he needs care and i need advice asap He has one stump foot no toes, Other foot has 2 toes and 3rd one badly broken going a different direction. He has all his sheaths on his feathers almost covers his whole body. Some have broken and now stuck inside him. Its rock hard to get off. I can sit for hours rubbing it off but barely make progress. but some of the small ones with the smallest touch fall out whole.I was told by this vet he is an old bird so why does he still have this ? He is pulling out his tail ones because im sure it hurts . My biggest concern is the few that must have broke off due to him not being able to perch .He walks a small amount, balance is awful he goes to the side or falls forward onto his beak.Also told he has non cancerous tumor large enough to pull him forward. He doesn't speak,they said he could be blind. His one stump foot is locked so he can't move it. This poor bird just sits there in a corner it's the saddest thing. Any suggestions help anyone live near me i'd take him anywhere. The one vet was horrible i spent $200 for nothing 10min with him. I live in Canada Ontario Mississauga . He is in a beautiful cage i clean daily from mess. He is alot of work,He is on soft lined cage bottom,of blankets and even a cushion but has feet sores. I applied a cream vet gave seems to do more harm than good. He also had smelly blood clots through his whole back so 2 days and 5 hours i took a qtip to clean each one.He has gotten stronger with a lovely diet,i make sock nest for him to sit in like a donut so he can relax straight instead of falling over. I heat up his bedding at night a little and he loves it. He sleeps alot! He is also in my arms many hrs of the day. His feathers are my biggest concern. 2 straws inside body broken feather. Im sure he has more but the rock hard tubes are all over and i cannot just easy get them off. What can i do? Please help ......his broken toe in another pic,
Its an ID tag it has a code on it. I think its only to tell if its a male or female but I'm probably incorrect. Once you buy your bird they take it off from what I remember its been so long since I had a bird.
I had to give this same medication to my budgie a couple of times before it was decided i couldn't afford the test to find out what was actually wrong (it was my first bird) i used the first method you showed but held my bird on its back until it had swallowed the meds and found that to be the most effective. I know it sounds like torture but it's a few moments of unpleasantness to save a birds life.
Markus chill out. Correlation is not always causation. Suns might be native to tropic areas, but they have the same things that non-migratory birds in cold climates have... down feathers. Suns have a very large beak which can be a source of body heat loss, and so they are not "built" to sustain long winters, but I know breeders who keep cockatiels and conures in an outdoor aviary with little more than a heat lamp. Respiratory infections are, unfortunately, a common thing for pet birds.
You can take the same approach with most animals, when the medicine is in liquid form, just mask it with something they really like. Pills are another story. :)
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS* : The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at imminent and serious risk. The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live. It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it! This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds. *Also the breeding paste and its pigments and the sunflower seeds can attack the liver* if they are taken too much or for too long. It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates. *SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE* : First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, forced breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct). For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause* . Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals. So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds. *PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT* : The time to act is NOW that your pet doesn’t have yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days)* . *And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add a DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract)* . Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know. It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But *the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases)* . Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages. Webs on FLD: www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill. www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease. www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver. www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may (usually) arrive late. Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered. A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
Great video. Thank you for your uploads, there isn't nearly enough information out there for bird owners, and this is just another resource they can access! makes things much easier when the time comes to deciding what's going to work best for your bird.
Awww poor boy, I'm glad he's well. I've had my Sun Conure 26 years and he's never been sick. I took him to the vets when I first got him and never took him again. He gets fresh fruit everyday and he's traveled by plane, boat, motorhome and car. I had a plumhead parakeet that lived to be 25 and he was never sick a day in his life. I find this interesting but I rarely get sick nor do I take any kind of prescription or over the counter meds. Just good healthy living at it's best!
You're a good dad. Patient, caring, thoughtful. No wonder Apollo, so clearly, loves you, and feels so safe with you.
I just moved from Tennessee to Oregon and we camped the entire way. That's my guess as to what did it. Strange sleeping patterns and constant change of temperature must have made him weak. He's doing better now it seems.
my bird will bite the crap out of me if i did that
Pops Same with myn
I’m late but... Well you need to train it
Same
My cockatiel hated baytrill and we ended up in animal ER because I thought he was dying because his eyes got droopy after and he sounded like he was suffocating. Turns out he just hated the flavor and blew it through his nares. Haha.
and did your cockatiel bird died after he was in the hospital
he trusted me more than his other buddies...but since all those feeding episodes,he was reluctant to even step up on my finger...so i totally agree with spoon feeding sick birds.they find it playful and that keeps them happier and healthier.i stopped forcing my bird and and he went back to normal in like a week.he's the happiest boy now:)i hope your bird never gets sick again! cuz it hurts like a knife when they get ill !!
I really really really hope he's okay I love him
Thanks for the advice-wouldn't hurt to get all birds used to drinking a treat from a spoon before they even get sick so you will have better chance of getting the meds in
Baytril is AMAZING.
its so adorable when he drinks off the spoon, im glad hes recovered fine.
Hello are you still alive 🤣😂🤔😅
He's so cute when he's getting a check up :3
Thank you so much for these tips, I also have a sun conure and I'm trying to teach him the tricks on your other videos. Great videos by the way!
I just fall in love whith apollo along all the videos
When My sun conure first got sick he was scared of the syringe as well. I put it on the spoon too and mixed a drop of syrup, he seemed to like it. He got a bacterial infection two years later, I used the syringe and he took it like a baby. I guess he loved the syrup flavor! Great video!
He was sick about 6 months ago and I think this was a relapse. For some reason captive parrots are horrible at fighting infections. We have him on the same dose of antibiotics he was on before but this time its less per dose with more doses. He's recovering wonderfully.
Please tell me medicine name for respiration infection of green cheek conure n also tell dose quantity..
so happy he's got a good owner with a smart brain.
hi Apollo is not my bird , i don't know the answer to your question, keeping my birds warm during winter has been my way of keeping my birds healthy, my birds are very seldom sick, almost never sick. i keep them very warm in winter with a heater in their room.
Yes..they have an ear piercing scream....but are very loving..
I lack the patience to deal with a fearful animal like a parrot
they are so colorful..... I hope Apollo feels better :)
I had to do this w/1 of my rescues. Another idea: if ur bird likes almond butter or bread products, u can also mix in the almond butter & smear on a piece of bread. I don't recommend mix w/sugar (or giving sugar period) cuz affects yeast in their system. Medicating birds is tough! Can someone do a vid on what flu viruses & illnesses r communicable between human & birds. Cuz I worry whenev I get sick., pinpointing symptoms can b tough.
Your videos are great! I have learned so many great, useful and unique tips from your videos that I have never come across anywhere else. Please keep making the vids!
Boy, have I got it made! Too bad I can't show you all the stuff I can do with my birds. Well, they're actually my father's but he's getting a heck of a deal with me taking care of them. You should check out Dr Ross Perry's videos. He's an Australian avian veterinarian and I learned everything from him and reading books on birds medical care, and I have crop fed, nasal flushed, given IM & SQ injection, blood draws from jugular vein, nail & beak trims, weighed them, treated them, etc.
doctor should say "trust me im the doctor"
It's cool you are being creative giving medicine to Apollo. I'm going to try apple juice next time I have to give her medicine. Thanks for the video :)
In Australia you have the best avian vet in the world. Dr. Ross Perry. I can't believe you haven't heard of him!!!!!!! I am so sorry about your bird. You have to look Dr. Perry up if you get another one. He is wonderful!!!!
way to go looking after your bird...!!!...he is adorable...some people probably wouldn't bother...although I can't think of why...I did that with my cockatiel also...and he is fine!!!
I can see that you love your bird and that he loves you...way to go!!!!
CUTE.
im pretty sure he got better so im gonna say the bleep when he flew away was priceless lol
wonderful! thankyou for the information! my greencheek has been well all his 13 years, but i always wondered how I would give such a small bird meds if needed. "Now I know! And knowing is half the battle!"
Thanks for this tip.
When I first got my lovebird I had to give him two weeks of antibiotics twice a day. Fun. He hated it even through it tasted like cherry. Catching him was awful.
Awww❤
ahhh you are so sweet with your birdy! i wish i new this when my budgie got sick. it was so hard to feed her, her med but i always gave her something tasty afterwards. she was a very sick bird though, and even had to have a tumor removed then got diabeties. she also had some anger problems for some reason she would always try to attack people lol and fly after them and almost draw blood all the time! she was not shy at all. but was very smart though, for a budgie
Thank you for this video. I am wondering...I have an old lovebird of 18 years old who doesn't drink and eat enough anymore. So I have to feed him with a syringe, which he hates. But I have to do it because he just won't eat enough himself, not even his most favourite snacks. Now we are doing this feeding with the two of us. I hold my bird and open his mouth, and my friend puts the baby food in his mouth with a syringe. Now I am wondering....how much should we squeeze in his mouth at once? Is it okay to squeeze 0.5 ml in his mouth at once? Or is that too much to swallow for him? Also is there any danger that the food gets into his lungs if we squeeze it in his mouth? After feeding him like this he seems fine and actually nibbling and enjoying it it looks like. I guess that's a good sign right? A sign also that we did it correct?
Whaat a preety baby...
You're a wonderful bird owner. I am so glad to see someone taking good care of their beloved bird.
Hello Sun Conure love fresh oregano and oregano is good for colds infection thats there favorite herb and they love cuties walnuts,my son's conure like smoothies w/plain yogurt,berries,flax,honey,banana,fresh fruit,lentils,chick beans,just saying,prayer to St. Francis of Asiss too God Bless u all
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he's like wow i have such a great owner!!! haha, i may try this with my kakariki!
I also recently had a sick cockatiel bird - it was very sudden that he got sick, just started throwing up on me. So he was at the vet's in no less than 30 minutes from the second he started. It was determined he had a bit of a gut infection, so they also gave him Baytril - a shot at first, overnight holding in a incubator, and then I fed him Baytril 2x a day for a week. The shot did the trick almost immediately, the feedings he didn't mind as well, till around the last few days.
That bleep was oddly satisfying.
Should be more people around like you
Wow this was 10 years ago, is he still with you
I hope Apollo gets better
Thanks! We are looking to get a sun concur soon. Beautiful bird you have there!
Thank you for sharing I really appreciate this information
That's the best way. Ask your vet to show you have to give injections and ask your vet for the injectable form of meds next time. Just let him show you were the best spot is b/c flight muscles can be affected/best given in lower part of right pectoral muscle. The upper breast muscle is their main location of the much needed flight muscles. That, or your vet can teach you how to give the meds via crop.
You need to be a little more affectionate and nice. So you make your sick buddy feel better
australia is massive... ross perry could be anywhere from 20 minutes away to several days' driving...
I have a galah cockatoo that got a respiratory infection. I've also read that apple juice can be toxic to some parrots, one of the reasons being high arsenic levels. The way my vet said was to give it as the only water. If he gets thirsty he will drink.
I have a pair of these, how is yours doing now?
my parrot got injured ion the eye lid...he was talking and chirping on his way to the emergency clinic...the doctor prescribed some eye drops for him and some medicine to be fed to him through a syringe...i had to forcefully feed him that and hold him like that to put those eye drops in his eyes....trust me,that scared the poor little guy like any thing...he was having a fever the next day from all the extra care,his droppings were runny...he was not eating and just wanted to sleep.
Nice. I like to se owners there only whis the best for there birds. And this is in deed a great way to give him the medicin. And whit the juice he took it at hes own free will. deffenly something i will try if my bird get sick and the medicin has to come in the beak.
Sorry to hear that Apollo feel betters sick
Sweetie pie
What I do is I put it in the Ziti pasta in the center
Feed to my bird and she loves it and it'll work without causing the bird any stress.😊
I'm having to give my sun conure some antibiotics, too. He shakes a lot of it out. He's still breathing heavily so I really hope it's not a fungal infection instead.
my love bird had the same thing and the vet gave him the same stuff but already mixed in water so could just use that as his water for 14 days
such a good owner :)
As a sun conjure owner, i can say that i can hear a VERY familiar sound in the background during the apple-juice explanation:P
one of the loudest breeds
he is cool
Who apart from me looked for recent videos to check if the parrot got better.... Seems He did
i have come to love Apollo through your videos, is he better?
The main thing is to keep up w/the checks, tests for diseases to make sure your bird is healthy and doesn't catch anything, and keep on eye on the organs (liver and kidney, spleen, etc.) Those can become diseased in birds or fail and need to make sure they are healthy and in working order. Get yourself a stethoscope so you can listen to the heart, lungs and breathing too. You have to stay on top of birds' health in order for them to live a long life (any exotic for that matter). Good luck.
I guess the bird teaches you to be creative as much as you teach it! This video made me sad though because it sucks when your pet isn't feeling well :(
I have learn with my Quaker that I offer a grape and he will take his Celebrex willing for me. He is so used to the syringe for me now, he understands but still likes to give me a hard time once in a great while. But I can understand your trouble with medicines for Apollo. Cynthia
I had to do this to my bird but he had to have shots every day but he didn’t bite me also I would recommend using a towel
Your so lucky. Here in Australia we dont get this kind of help for birds. Our Vets only care about dogs and cats. My bird passed away because I could not get the attention it needed within such a short time frame.
best bird owner probably on the earth :)
We recently had to give our GCC antibiotics and we had to do the exact thing, it was 0.1mL with exact syringe. We found what worked best was to just take the syringe with the antibiotics in the syringe and suck up her favourite type of juce (apple juce) and then she drank straight from the tip willingly. Found that worked the best.
Please tell me antibotic name for respiratory infection
@@shwetasaxena4950 Sorry, unsure. I would recommend checking with you local vet.
No...it's a sun conure...Although they do look similar jendays have solid green wings.When sunnies are babies they have solid green wings but mature to the half yellow half green.
I hope he's ok
I imagine the reason most parrots in captivity get sick easier, is because (mostly) they are hand-fed... so they don't get the extra stuff that their parents would feed them that boosts their immune system when they are younger... just a guess (no, I am not trying to sound like I am smartass there... I am literally saying, its just a guess)
anyways... so has he gotten any better?
Wow! You're a amazing owner!
I like your bird I like the color on hem I hope he gets better
Sweetest little thing… I need to get a geo tag for my bird :/ my macaw sounds so noticeably congested and it seems to be getting worse… can’t find much online
My parrot became sick and he then suddenly collapsed and then died... I'm gonna miss conny..
His story was he was with 12 other birds and in a hoarding situation.I rescued him as he was the worst and its cost me a lot of money sadly. 2 vets who were bird vets were not helpful and cost me $400. Im dealing with my own health stuff but he needs care and i need advice asap
He has one stump foot no toes,
Other foot has 2 toes and 3rd one badly broken going a different direction.
He has all his sheaths on his feathers almost covers his whole body. Some have broken and now stuck inside him. Its rock hard to get off. I can sit for hours rubbing it off but barely make progress. but some of the small ones with the smallest touch fall out whole.I was told by this vet he is an old bird so why does he still have this ? He is pulling out his tail ones because im sure it hurts . My biggest concern is the few that must have broke off due to him not being able to perch .He walks a small amount, balance is awful he goes to the side or falls forward onto his beak.Also told he has non cancerous tumor large enough to pull him forward. He doesn't speak,they said he could be blind. His one stump foot is locked so he can't move it. This poor bird just sits there in a corner it's the saddest thing. Any suggestions help anyone live near me i'd take him anywhere. The one vet was horrible i spent $200 for nothing 10min with him. I live in Canada Ontario Mississauga . He is in a beautiful cage i clean daily from mess. He is alot of work,He is on soft lined cage bottom,of blankets and even a cushion but has feet sores. I applied a cream vet gave seems to do more harm than good. He also had smelly blood clots through his whole back so 2 days and 5 hours i took a qtip to clean each one.He has gotten stronger with a lovely diet,i make sock nest for him to sit in like a donut so he can relax straight instead of falling over. I heat up his bedding at night a little and he loves it. He sleeps alot! He is also in my arms many hrs of the day. His feathers are my biggest concern. 2 straws inside body broken feather. Im sure he has more but the rock hard tubes are all over and i cannot just easy get them off. What can i do? Please help ......his broken toe in another pic,
Its an ID tag it has a code on it. I think its only to tell if its a male or female but I'm probably incorrect. Once you buy your bird they take it off from what I remember its been so long since I had a bird.
I hate it when birds die. They are great companians just like dogs or cats
Is he still kickin!?
I’m sorry that your parrot is sick I have the same parrot but he’s not sick I’m so sorry
By the end of the video, he seemed better. That medicine worked quick. I have a Quaker and have not had any illnesses yet🙏
No disrespect, but could he have gotten sick from flying outside when the weather isn't warm enough for him???
So cute !!! i want one
😭 my bird died i tnink he wont move an i dont if his heart is beating im realy crying piz someone pray for him
did it die or is it okay
Wtf
xSniper wolfx praying won't do anything lol
is that even English?
Nobody fucking cares u pray for ur self
@Zoe R yes sun conures are very loud especially when happy or seeking attention like mine :)
Haha my sun conures name is Apollo! Thank you for the information, my bird also hates to take his meds so the apple juice trick will really help
Awww, is he okay?
Have macaw thank you for sharing good instructions medicine she's had sinusitis before meds Beatrie is not good
I had to give this same medication to my budgie a couple of times before it was decided i couldn't afford the test to find out what was actually wrong (it was my first bird) i used the first method you showed but held my bird on its back until it had swallowed the meds and found that to be the most effective. I know it sounds like torture but it's a few moments of unpleasantness to save a birds life.
1. How difficult/easy are they to care for?
2. Where/how do you purchase these birds?
3. How much do they cost?
Markus chill out. Correlation is not always causation. Suns might be native to tropic areas, but they have the same things that non-migratory birds in cold climates have... down feathers. Suns have a very large beak which can be a source of body heat loss, and so they are not "built" to sustain long winters, but I know breeders who keep cockatiels and conures in an outdoor aviary with little more than a heat lamp. Respiratory infections are, unfortunately, a common thing for pet birds.
You can take the same approach with most animals, when the medicine is in liquid form, just mask it with something they really like. Pills are another story. :)
your a good daddy Jon!
How much did it cost u my indian ringneck is loosing feather and sleeps in day and sneeze
And eats less help please
*IMPORTANT WARNING FOR PET BIRD OWNERS* : The food that we normally give to the canaries (and other companion birds) consisting of a "complete, balanced and top-quality seeds mixture" bought in pet stores or malls, makes the owners trust that their pet is well fed, but it's not so: indeed the birds health is at imminent and serious risk.
The owners of canaries, parrots, cockatoos, parakeets, cockatiels, etc., WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO DOMESTIC BIRD BREEDERS AND VETS and keep in mind that although we feed them with such a typical seeds mixture, our birds are very likely in danger of suffering an unexpected, painful and practically inevitable PREMATURE DEATH BY FATTY LIVER DISEASE. Canaries, for example, will surely die at 4 - 6 years of age of the more than 14 that they can live.
It's sad that pet birds are fated to die early and painfully in so many cases. You have to warn people to avoid it!
This deadly disease is very common in pet birds but owners usually don’t know or detect it in time. And we can’t imagine that *THE CAUSE IS IN THE FOOD ITSELF* that we provide to our birds, in which such *a typical mixture contains low-fat seeds such as canary seed together with other VERY fatty seeds such as niger, hemp or nabine and, in addition, the birds usually prefer to eat the fatty seeds* so that their REAL DIET is unbalanced by excessive fat, gradually causes the fatty infiltration of the liver and in a few years causes fatty liver hepatitis and PREMATURE DEATH to pet birds.
*Also the breeding paste and its pigments and the sunflower seeds can attack the liver* if they are taken too much or for too long.
It's a cruel disease that progresses silently and, when its unexpected symptoms begin, they are easily confused with other ailments so the owners usually postpone the visit to the vet at a time already critical for the life of the bird (besides that not all vets are trained to recognize this elusive and misleading disease, even to administer lipotropic and regenerative liver protectors in curative doses, just in case it's that and not a supposed blow). It's a process of slow and asymptomatic progression, but when their visible symptoms begin (acute phase) the disease accelerates.
*SYMPTOMS OF THE ACUTE PHASE OF FATTY LIVER DISEASE* : First, emotional decay or progressive lack of interest, hard belly (in many cases, with a dark spot with a half-moon shape on the belly, which seems a "tumor", to see it you have to wet your fingers to remove the down), falls from the sticks of the cage that seem for "errors of calculation" and then lameness (that make believe that they are by the previous falls, but both symptoms are due to that it hurts the liver), lack of flight and singing, the bird fluffs up his feathers or bends more or less slowly; Then, within a few weeks or a few days, forced breathing with open beak, remaining lying on the floor of the cage near the food, sudden spasms from time to time (which make people believe that the bird is "epileptic" but it are twinges of pain of diseased liver), abundant greenish stools (caused by biliverdin which if it's not fasting, it means hepatic harm), then black and watery (from hepatic hemorrhages), then a strange purplish color of skin and beak, an excessive appetite and the final "improvement" of a few days (in the last phase, the already degenerated liver becomes deflated by what the bird seems to ameliorate), after which it suddenly dies among seizures (which may seem a heart infarct).
For the first symptoms the liver has already degenerated to 80% and only an urgent (and accurate) vet action can save your bird and revert the liver situation. If you simply feed your bird with the loose seeds mixture (even if you give it fresh fruits, vegetables and let it exercise, for example by letting it out of the cage at home), right now your pet's liver is degenerating, and neither you nor your bird know. *Without liver protectors, it's almost certain that your bird will die early and in many cases you won’t be able to determine its real cause* .
Hepatic lipidosis it's not only deadly by itself when the visible symptoms begin (sometimes even it does not warn at all until few moments before the death). Even before the acute phase it predisposes the bird to suffer infections, as it weakens the immune system. Obese pet birds have an higher risk of many other diseases, like arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Obesity in birds it's not so apparent but it's more dangerous than in other animals like mammals.
So in addition to giving to the birds lipotropic and detox / regenerating hepatic protectors preventively and routinely, breeders usually make their own mixtures with low fat seeds.
*PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT* : The time to act is NOW that your pet doesn’t have yet the visible symptoms. It's necessary to ACTIVELY PREVENT THE LIVER DEGENERATION. Fortunately it's easy to do it: *It's very advisable to substitute progressively (within some weeks, as per the instructions of the manufacturer) the mixture of loose seeds for some pellets compound food of seeds, fruits and vegetables (preferably those that already include liver protectors), because this prevents the bird from filtering and eating mostly the fatty seeds (but without insisting if the bird does not get accustomed to eating pellets because he could die for starvation within a few days)* .
*And, whatever the diet, it's CRUCIAL to add to the drinking water or to the food a LIPOTROPIC LIVER PROTECTOR that includes carnitine and / or choline, betaine, methionine, etc., (and it's very convenient to add a DETOX / REGENERATING LIVER PROTECTOR with thistle milk, boldo, artichoke extract)* . Liver protectors are not medicine but cheap food supplements manufactured by pet bird vet laboratories that remove the fat from the liver, clean it and favor its recovery. It's essential to add them to the pet birds diet to conserve their liver. It's something that professionals as breeders and vets know, but we the owners usually don't know.
It are appearing in the market compound feed for pet birds that don’t include fatty seeds and that already include several liver protectors. But *the vast majority of owners still confidently feed their birds with the typical mixture of loose seeds with little fat and other very fatty seeds... And their birds continue dying of hepatic lipidosis in a large number of cases (likely, in most cases)* . Now we know that, as fatty liver disease develops from the daily food itself, it’s most likely THE FIRST CAUSE OF DEATH OF PET BIRDS, and more so as the bird ages.
Webs on FLD:
www.beautyofbirds.com/liverdisease.html
Liver disease is a slow, on-going progressive disease where the liver tissue is replaced with fat. When the liver disease has progressed, the bird may suddenly appear ill.
www.lovinghands.com/forms/Hepatic%20Lipidosis%20-%20Fatty%20Liver%20Disease.pdf
One of the sadder diseases many avian vets see is that of hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. It's sad in a number of ways since often the birds are very ill, life-threateningly so, or possibly having died suddenly. Often the owners have been unaware of the dangers of feeding their beloved pet the seeds, peanuts, or other fatty foods the bird obviously loves to eat. These are truly cases of "loving your bird to death". Any bird can fall victim to fatty liver disease.
www.researchgate.net/publication/46105643_Treating_liver_disease_in_the_avian_patient
Dietary deficiencies of lipotrophic factors such as choline, biotin, and methionine may decrease the transport of lipids from the liver.
www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n111110B/111004B.pdf
The clinical manifestations of hepatic diseases in ornamental birds are much more frequent than people could imagine and in many cases they are not appreciated, progress in a silent way and when they are evident, vet action may (usually) arrive late.
Most any avian symptomatology should be considered as if it were a pathology that could be serious, and not allow the disease to develop because then it will probably be too late. We must closely investigate the symptoms, take preventive measures that don’t harm (such as giving liver and intestinal protectors according to the leaflet) ask for advice from vets, breeders, etc. and procure the most appropriate treatment RAPIDLY, but without rushing in the treatment or with the doses in such small animals. If the days go by and the bird doesn’t improve, it's necessary to continue investigating and, if necessary, change the medication in an informed and contrasted manner. Doing nothing or stopping research usually ends up with the bird dead, but acting without being sure of what is done and in what dose, it likely ends the same way. It's necessary to obtain and confirm the sufficient vet experience and have the serenity to determine in each case whether it's convenient to hasten to do and / or administer what medicine and in what dose, or if it’s better not to do and let the situation evolve without medicating for the time being, or according to the medication that has already been administered.
A limp in a bird is not always an injury caused by a blow, but the symptom of a disease of some organ (usually the liver or an intestinal disease) that needs to be discovered and treated ASAP. When in doubt, change diet to one with the lowest fat possible (only birdseed, or with other low-fat seeds such as millet, chia, fresh fruits and vegetables) and administer lipotropic and regenerating liver protectors in curative doses immediately... although nothing could foresee a fatal outcome. There are also food supplements protectors of the intestinal mucosa and stimulants of the immune system. In doses according to the leaflets do not cause damage, it will surely save the life of your bird (if it's not too late), and will keep them with a basic wellness.
Great video. Thank you for your uploads, there isn't nearly enough information out there for bird owners, and this is just another resource they can access! makes things much easier when the time comes to deciding what's going to work best for your bird.
i can see the vet scar on his right hand