SamanthaAnnJo
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Just a warning/apology ahead of time for the looooong post and questions..:15:
About ten years ago a Goffin Cockatoo was tossed into my lap and I absolutely adore her but I am not really a parrot person-I have always been really into animals and I have some other smaller birds but she is my only parrot and I really don't know anything about them. She is not very bird-like and somehow we have just gotten by with me being clueless. In the last ten years I have only had to take her to the vet once when she had (or something similar) to a fatty liver disease from being on a seed diet and that was when the vet told me to switch to pellets-which I did but I don't really know what is a good brand, what type I should be getting? I usually buy Zupreem but to be honest if I don't see Zupreem I just get what is the most volume for the $ Because I don't know what I should be getting.
She eats dinner with me every single night and I am a somewhat healthy eater (Never eat fast food, try to stay away from boxed/canned food) and that makes up most of her diet really and then I just free feed her pellets which really she plays with more than she eats. She really DOES not like fruits or vegetables. At all. The most I can get her to eat is watermelon and the occasional carrot.
So my main concern is that Sunday night her breath had a very strong stink-Im not even sure how to describe the smell. I thought I would give it a day in case it was something she had eaten-Monday it smelled stronger so I made her an appt. for Wednesday and Tuesday night I could just BARELY smell (literally about had her beak up my nose and I could barely catch a whiff), smelled her breath again Wed. and it was the same thing So I canceled the appt. because I didn't want to stress her out and expose her to anything in the vet's office since she in never around strange birds at all. The whole time her demeanor has not changed at all and her poop always looked great.
Is this something that I should be really concerned with or just keep a really close eye on her?
Another thing I am concerned with is her diet and what vitamins she is missing-She never goes outside, she lived the majority of her life outside and now she hates it so she is always inside and her cage is a large parrot cage that is in my closet-everyone thinks I am crazy but that is the only place that she is comfortable when in her cage.
She just doesn't act like a "normal" bird...She won't play with cage toys, she is almost always asleep in her cage. Not feather plucker-was nearly bald when I got her but she does not pluck at all anymore. She showers everyday with me and I do not clip her wings but she doesn't fly. Also she is somewhere around 20-30 I was told she was found in the early 90s...
I know everyone is probably going to say just take her to the vet they can answer these questions but I have a hard time finding a good avian vet because I haven't had very good luck with them and I don't know any bird people to refer me.
Any help is sooo appreciated.
About ten years ago a Goffin Cockatoo was tossed into my lap and I absolutely adore her but I am not really a parrot person-I have always been really into animals and I have some other smaller birds but she is my only parrot and I really don't know anything about them. She is not very bird-like and somehow we have just gotten by with me being clueless. In the last ten years I have only had to take her to the vet once when she had (or something similar) to a fatty liver disease from being on a seed diet and that was when the vet told me to switch to pellets-which I did but I don't really know what is a good brand, what type I should be getting? I usually buy Zupreem but to be honest if I don't see Zupreem I just get what is the most volume for the $ Because I don't know what I should be getting.
She eats dinner with me every single night and I am a somewhat healthy eater (Never eat fast food, try to stay away from boxed/canned food) and that makes up most of her diet really and then I just free feed her pellets which really she plays with more than she eats. She really DOES not like fruits or vegetables. At all. The most I can get her to eat is watermelon and the occasional carrot.
So my main concern is that Sunday night her breath had a very strong stink-Im not even sure how to describe the smell. I thought I would give it a day in case it was something she had eaten-Monday it smelled stronger so I made her an appt. for Wednesday and Tuesday night I could just BARELY smell (literally about had her beak up my nose and I could barely catch a whiff), smelled her breath again Wed. and it was the same thing So I canceled the appt. because I didn't want to stress her out and expose her to anything in the vet's office since she in never around strange birds at all. The whole time her demeanor has not changed at all and her poop always looked great.
Is this something that I should be really concerned with or just keep a really close eye on her?
Another thing I am concerned with is her diet and what vitamins she is missing-She never goes outside, she lived the majority of her life outside and now she hates it so she is always inside and her cage is a large parrot cage that is in my closet-everyone thinks I am crazy but that is the only place that she is comfortable when in her cage.
She just doesn't act like a "normal" bird...She won't play with cage toys, she is almost always asleep in her cage. Not feather plucker-was nearly bald when I got her but she does not pluck at all anymore. She showers everyday with me and I do not clip her wings but she doesn't fly. Also she is somewhere around 20-30 I was told she was found in the early 90s...
I know everyone is probably going to say just take her to the vet they can answer these questions but I have a hard time finding a good avian vet because I haven't had very good luck with them and I don't know any bird people to refer me.
Any help is sooo appreciated.