Avocado and Sonny.....

picklesandjesse · Aug 13, 2018

We have a 4 month old male ecky that is fully flighted and today I came back in the house and he had discovered a nearly ripe avocado. Who knows how much he ate ?? What a mess !! I am hoping that he only ate the meat part and not the outside skin, hard to tell. Now the waiting begins. This was 20 mins ago and we live in a country town in NSW with no avian vet. From what I have read we should know within an hour or so but it's nervous times here. We have learnt to cover the fruit bowl too.

This bird eats and eats and eats..... maybe 50% of his waking hours. I doubt that he ate the skin as the flesh was what he was after. John

YUMgrinder · Aug 14, 2018

I certainly hope nothing terrible happens from it!

ChristaNL · Aug 14, 2018

Not all avocadoos (types) are equally toxic to birds.
Only because there -apart from growing your own- is no way to tell at first glance which is which we decided ALL avocadoos are lethal to birds.
So you actually have a pretty good chance nothing will happen (this time).

It is like the "unless you are a well trained expert, do not pick your own mushrooms in the wild".

I haven't had an avocado in the house since the parrots moved in- the only way to be sure they can't get at it.

btw- from what I read it's the pit that is the worst, "persin (a cardiac glycoside fungicidal toxin) seeps from an oil in the avocados pit. Persin then finds its way into the fruit."
So if he ate very little/none of the fruit very close to the pit he has a good chance.

Kiwibird · Aug 14, 2018

I would keep a close eye on behavior and droppings. Being an eclectus I might even give the vet a call to be safe since they're so sensitive compared to other parrots.

In most cases, avocado doesn't make birds who eat it by biting into it sick. It is not typically acutely toxic and it's reputation has grown out of proportion (though it is defiantly one to avoid and not leave around if your bird is free all day). What generally can lead to illness or death is repeated feedings of sliced avocado or if the bird chews on the pit. The pits of other fruits are also toxic FYI, not just avocado but in the fruits the toxins end not to seep into the flesh.

picklesandjesse · Aug 17, 2018

Thanks for the replies. Sonny was fine and continues to challenge us around the house. We have a very large cage which he is getting used to now and his sleeping box is in it so he spends from about 9pm till 6am in it. When we are cooking he is now put in the cage and plays with his toys. He has fun with the wild rainbow lorikeets each afternoon when they come in the house to eat. Lot's of drama.

itzjbean · Aug 17, 2018

So glad to hear he didn't get sick and you are keeping him safely caged!

But honestly I would not let him around the wild lorikeets.... you never know what sickness/diseases they could be carrying honestly...

condobirds · Aug 17, 2018

FYI. My GCC once started chewing on a plant that was toxic, and I knew the plant was toxic to birds. He started into convulsions. Big mistake on my part. Anyway, after calling the vet in a panic, she told me to get a syringe and keep forcing water into the bird to dilute the toxins and they would eventually pass thru the bird. The next day we went to the vet but he was fine. Lesson learned.

EllenD · Aug 18, 2018

Just a suggestion, since you have no Avian Vet that you can take your bird to in an emergency like this, and since your bird seems to eat anything and everything, you should really go out and buy a bottle of Activated Charcoal, and keep one in your house at all times. You can buy it at any drugstore, and if your bird (or any other pet or person) ever eats anything at all that could be potentially toxic/poisonous, regardless of what it is, you can simply give him the Activated Charcoal, and it will absorb all of the toxins/poisons in his GI Tract and then they will be safely transported through the GI Tract and then excreted from his body in his feces. The Activated Charcoal keeps all of the toxins/poison from being absorbed into the bloodstream.

picklesandjesse · Aug 18, 2018

EllenD said:
Just a suggestion, since you have no Avian Vet that you can take your bird to in an emergency like this, and since your bird seems to eat anything and everything, you should really go out and buy a bottle of Activated Charcoal, and keep one in your house at all times. You can buy it at any drugstore, and if your bird (or any other pet or person) ever eats anything at all that could be potentially toxic/poisonous, regardless of what it is, you can simply give him the Activated Charcoal, and it will absorb all of the toxins/poisons in his GI Tract and then they will be safely transported through the GI Tract and then excreted from his body in his feces. The Activated Charcoal keeps all of the toxins/poison from being absorbed into the bloodstream.

Thanks for this advise, will do. This bird is a crazy flier and flies around tables,light fittings,over beams but manages to stay in one piece. Very funny to watch in the morning.

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