I have a male and female eclectus. They stay in the same areas of the house but sleep in separate cages. The female, Bonnie, is the sick one. The other seems perfectly healthy. I have spent so much money on vets and botched visits where they ended up just giving refills of metacam as well as an opiate. Due to beak and feather colors, I'm assuming she has fatty liver disease. She stopped eating seeds about 4 years ago. She will regurgitate if she gets more than 3 small biscuits in her crop. My male, Herbie can eat as many as he wants. Bonnie will no longer eat pellets and seeds.
Lately (the last 3 days) she has been making crying noises when I wake her up. She is taking my finger and vibrating it in her beak. (the finger thing has been going on much longer than 3 days, but not all the time. Asking her yes or no questions, I think that she is hungry, but I also think something is wrong with her crop or possibly the mouth area (I heard her slowly trying to eat a few spray millet seeds (less than 10) one night in her cage after bedtime. There was one day where she actually ate half of a small spray millet overnight. Her poop was reddish and nothing else had changed in her diet. On my last vet visit, they looked down her throat which was a little rough and did a crop wash which didn't show anything abnormal. The doctor suggested that she was beaking my finger as a sign of affection. I do not think that is true as now there are crying noises when that happens. I should add that her voice has sounded rough the last few days. Some of that sounds like an infection, but there is no wheezing.
I should add that she stopped eating seeds a number of years ago. I just assumed she preferred the fresh food more.
Does anyone have any suggestions that might help, or questions for me that may give insight to what might be wrong?
I should add that Bonnie is about 13 years old and I had both birds since the were weaned.
thanks
Andrew & Bonnie
Lately (the last 3 days) she has been making crying noises when I wake her up. She is taking my finger and vibrating it in her beak. (the finger thing has been going on much longer than 3 days, but not all the time. Asking her yes or no questions, I think that she is hungry, but I also think something is wrong with her crop or possibly the mouth area (I heard her slowly trying to eat a few spray millet seeds (less than 10) one night in her cage after bedtime. There was one day where she actually ate half of a small spray millet overnight. Her poop was reddish and nothing else had changed in her diet. On my last vet visit, they looked down her throat which was a little rough and did a crop wash which didn't show anything abnormal. The doctor suggested that she was beaking my finger as a sign of affection. I do not think that is true as now there are crying noises when that happens. I should add that her voice has sounded rough the last few days. Some of that sounds like an infection, but there is no wheezing.
I should add that she stopped eating seeds a number of years ago. I just assumed she preferred the fresh food more.
Does anyone have any suggestions that might help, or questions for me that may give insight to what might be wrong?
I should add that Bonnie is about 13 years old and I had both birds since the were weaned.
thanks
Andrew & Bonnie