Amazon - possible fractured femur

[Geslina]

Before clean up today. Wish he would eat over his plate.

 

[Geslina]

Just an update on Max…not sure anyone is still reading, but hoping all this will be helpful for anyone going thru something similar with their bird.

I still have not found an appropriate new cage for him. Based on things that have happened, I might be getting the acrylic cage that DonnaBudgie has posted about. After Max’s last vet visit, the vet was very happy with how the leg looked, the bone was healing, and he was okayed to slowly transition out of his hospital box. I fixed up his old cage, easy to reach dishes, perches low, soft towels on bottom. The problem was, as soon as he got some freedom, the climbing started. Including something he always did before, inside the cage, he would go up one side, upside down across the roof of the cage, down the other side….repeatedly. And fast. This is something he always did when he was excited and wanted to be let out. But even when i let him out, he wants to climb down to the floor, then back up again. Again, normal behavior for him, but I think it was just too much climbing. After a couple days, I noticed he was being a little cautious with the leg that had been fractured. Still using it, still walking ok, but when he would step up, I could tell he was hesitant to put all his weight on it. So, back into the hospital cage he went, and after a few days of no climbing, he is back to putting all his weight on it, no problems. i let his vet know, she was not overly concerned, and still wants him on the pain meds, so I guess it is to be expected that he might have some pain and discomfort with more activity. It has only been three months since the surgery, it was a bad break and he is an older bird. Though I am anxious to get things back to normal, and have him back in a cage, I think he needs more time and more healing.

Anyway, that is the update! He is eating well, being very social, doing all the normal things he used to do before the fracture.

I hope everyone, and their birds, are doing well…happy new year!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I think you'll like the plexiglass cage. Max need to let that bone heal and all that climbing I didn't buy the stand or the decorative canapy top. The cage was expensive enough without the unnecessary bells and whistles. The electric ventilation fan is such a nice feature and really works to keep the air inside the cage fresh.
I'm so happy for you and Max. Good avian vets are truly amazing. My little female budgie just got a deslorelin hormone implant today under anesthesia and I was so scared I was going to lose her but she did great. I have to keep her calm for a few days in a little cage so her incision can heal. Fortunately they implant it on her upper back between her wings where she can't get to it very easily.

 

[Geslina]

I think you'll like the plexiglass cage. Max need to let that bone heal and all that climbing I didn't buy the stand or the decorative canapy top. The cage was expensive enough without the unnecessary bells and whistles. The electric ventilation fan is such a nice feature and really works to keep the air inside the cage fresh.
I'm so happy for you and Max. Good avian vets are truly amazing. My little female budgie just got a deslorelin hormone implant today under anesthesia and I was so scared I was going to lose her but she did great. I have to keep her calm for a few days in a little cage so her incision can heal. Fortunately they implant it on her upper back between her wings where she can't get to it very easily.

Oh! Never heard of such a thing. Why did she need the implant?
If she starts to pick at it, as long as your vet says it is ok, go to a fabric store and by a half yard of medium weight fleece, cut it in a circle with a hole in the middle to slip over her head to make her a little collar. Hopefully you won’t have to, but you can easily and cheaply make a collar, instead of buying one. The one I got from the vet for Max was $60!!

I am just so amazed, not just by the vets, but by the resilience of these fragile little creatures! Hope she has a speedy recovery!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Joey has been very hormonal since she hit puberty at 5 months old and laid her first clutch of infertile eggs at 6 months old. I have to keep her separated from the rest of my budgies because she sexually harasses all the boys, chasing them around and begging them to mate with her, and they just cant resist. She a complete sweetheart with us, has never bitten anyone, and we keep her in our bedroom. She wants so badly to be with the other birds but I couldn't do it without her causing chaos. She's sitting on 3 infertile eggs right now- her second clutch in 4 weeks. All this egg laying will eventually deplete her and put her health and life at risk. The implant will (hopefully) prevent sexual behavior and egg laying for at least six months. Anesthesia is risky in a bird as small as Joey but she did fine. It will take a few weeks now for her hormones to calm down.