Piasa
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- Jan 12, 2016
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- Beau 20 year old male Green Cheek || Jimmy Bullet 17 year old female white cap pionus parrot
Since there aren't too many pionus specific studies out there, I wanted to share this article about liver health and cholesterol.
(Warning, has photos of organs and parrot/reptile cadavers)
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/7-3cholesterol.pdf
Pis had higher cholesterol levels on even the healthiest sprouted diet compared than the other parrots studied on high quality pellet diets and seed diets. More incentive to get your pi eating veggies, sprouts and real foods.
Milkthistle will protect and even heal a damaged liver. My white cap looooves milkthistle seeds. I've gotten organic ones in person and also through nuts.com
Here are the tested normal levels for quick reference. Good to have to compare to vet tests.
Mean LDL Cholesterol - 2.33 in a range of 1.95-2.67
HDL - mean 4.52, range 4.45-4.58
Cholesterol - mean 7.4, range 6.99-7.8
Triglycerides - mean 1.22, range 1.13-1.31
Here's to your health, little pi
(Warning, has photos of organs and parrot/reptile cadavers)
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/7-3cholesterol.pdf
Pis had higher cholesterol levels on even the healthiest sprouted diet compared than the other parrots studied on high quality pellet diets and seed diets. More incentive to get your pi eating veggies, sprouts and real foods.
Milkthistle will protect and even heal a damaged liver. My white cap looooves milkthistle seeds. I've gotten organic ones in person and also through nuts.com
Here are the tested normal levels for quick reference. Good to have to compare to vet tests.
Mean LDL Cholesterol - 2.33 in a range of 1.95-2.67
HDL - mean 4.52, range 4.45-4.58
Cholesterol - mean 7.4, range 6.99-7.8
Triglycerides - mean 1.22, range 1.13-1.31
Here's to your health, little pi
