Hi all,
Bobby attended his first visit at the vets today. It went surprisingly better than I could have ever expected. He’s not towel trained but was extremely non-plussed about being wrapped up and even chatted away whilst bundled up like a burrito, despite his 12 years of seed diet and cage bound life he was deemed fit with no noticeable ailments.
The vet weighed him and he ended up being 535g. She said “so not too overweight” and when I asked if that meant he was overweight, her response was “oh no he’s fine.” So now it’s n my head a bit haha. I had a google but results were all over the place - ranging from 400-700g. People say watching your birds weight is super important particularly to notice any small changes, so having such a broad average feels awfully contradictive. I even saw another person mention their Congo weighed 500g and their vet said their bird was obese - so I’m pretty lost!
Here he is after the vets, he wasn’t happy in the crate there and back but he held no grudges towards me afterwards for which I am grateful
Bobby attended his first visit at the vets today. It went surprisingly better than I could have ever expected. He’s not towel trained but was extremely non-plussed about being wrapped up and even chatted away whilst bundled up like a burrito, despite his 12 years of seed diet and cage bound life he was deemed fit with no noticeable ailments.
The vet weighed him and he ended up being 535g. She said “so not too overweight” and when I asked if that meant he was overweight, her response was “oh no he’s fine.” So now it’s n my head a bit haha. I had a google but results were all over the place - ranging from 400-700g. People say watching your birds weight is super important particularly to notice any small changes, so having such a broad average feels awfully contradictive. I even saw another person mention their Congo weighed 500g and their vet said their bird was obese - so I’m pretty lost!
Here he is after the vets, he wasn’t happy in the crate there and back but he held no grudges towards me afterwards for which I am grateful