Some of you may have watched my thread about my 27 year old Senegal suffering from bacteria infection. According to our vet, he is now undergoing a Convalescence period expected to have some ups and downs before full recovery.
I have recently bought the Harrison's High Potency pellet hoping to help BB to gain some weight. Their website has indicated below:
SPECIAL NEEDS: High Potency formula supports birds that are molting, overweight, underweight, particularly active, housed in a cold climate, recovering from an illness or affected by liver or kidney disease.
I have spoken with their customer service asking if we need to feed this gradually ie 50/50 basis = half the Adult Lifetime pellet (BB has taken for 27 years) + half High Potency. She said it's perfectly fine to offer 100% High Potency if the bird likes it. Yesterday we fed BB 4 High Potency and 2 Adult Lifetime pellets. He seems to like it so he happily ate them all and we were so glad to see. Last night before bed time, we saw a small pool of mucous with some undigested "white soybean" like pieces on the cage floor. No more vomiting seen after so we covered him for the night. This morning, we saw four pools of the same vomit on the cage floor. Oh boy, he looks extremely exhausted, tired and weak with his eyes closed. This has happened before when his regurgitation intensified and could not sleep all night.
We then checked the ingredients of the High Potency pellets on the website and was surprised to see the ingredients and all the protein, oil, fiber levels are exactly the same as the Adult Lifetime pellets. I have then filled in a contact form on their site and asked them why. They responded promptly via email saying they did not know they have not updated their site and have just fixed it. After the update, I realized all the ingredients between the two products still the same but the crude fat jumped from 5.5% to 15%!
High Potency
Crude protein (min.) 18%, crude fat (min.) 15%, crude fiber (max.) 6.5%, moisture (max.) 10%.
Adult Lifetime Coarse
Crude protein (min.) 15%, crude fat (min.) 5.5%, crude fiber (max.) 6.5%, moisture (max.) 10%
We suspect the sudden vomiting likely due to the drastic rise of the fat content that could be way too much for a sick esp a senior one who suffers from GI issues to take in. He was relatively fine the last few days till we fed him the High Potency for just one day.
He has been sleeping most of the day and not eating. He woke up at 3 pm wanted to be held and we fed him a little warm oatmeal. Now he is going back to sleep again.
All these setbacks really driving us crazy and we are also suffering from indigestion too. It's just so hard to watch him suffer for so long.
Posting this thread just to let you know to be extra careful when feeding new food to your bird especially a sick one like ours. We regret that we did not take notice of the ingredients and assumed it must be good as it is formulated for birds that are in special needs.
I have recently bought the Harrison's High Potency pellet hoping to help BB to gain some weight. Their website has indicated below:
SPECIAL NEEDS: High Potency formula supports birds that are molting, overweight, underweight, particularly active, housed in a cold climate, recovering from an illness or affected by liver or kidney disease.
I have spoken with their customer service asking if we need to feed this gradually ie 50/50 basis = half the Adult Lifetime pellet (BB has taken for 27 years) + half High Potency. She said it's perfectly fine to offer 100% High Potency if the bird likes it. Yesterday we fed BB 4 High Potency and 2 Adult Lifetime pellets. He seems to like it so he happily ate them all and we were so glad to see. Last night before bed time, we saw a small pool of mucous with some undigested "white soybean" like pieces on the cage floor. No more vomiting seen after so we covered him for the night. This morning, we saw four pools of the same vomit on the cage floor. Oh boy, he looks extremely exhausted, tired and weak with his eyes closed. This has happened before when his regurgitation intensified and could not sleep all night.
We then checked the ingredients of the High Potency pellets on the website and was surprised to see the ingredients and all the protein, oil, fiber levels are exactly the same as the Adult Lifetime pellets. I have then filled in a contact form on their site and asked them why. They responded promptly via email saying they did not know they have not updated their site and have just fixed it. After the update, I realized all the ingredients between the two products still the same but the crude fat jumped from 5.5% to 15%!
High Potency
Crude protein (min.) 18%, crude fat (min.) 15%, crude fiber (max.) 6.5%, moisture (max.) 10%.
Adult Lifetime Coarse
Crude protein (min.) 15%, crude fat (min.) 5.5%, crude fiber (max.) 6.5%, moisture (max.) 10%
We suspect the sudden vomiting likely due to the drastic rise of the fat content that could be way too much for a sick esp a senior one who suffers from GI issues to take in. He was relatively fine the last few days till we fed him the High Potency for just one day.
He has been sleeping most of the day and not eating. He woke up at 3 pm wanted to be held and we fed him a little warm oatmeal. Now he is going back to sleep again.
All these setbacks really driving us crazy and we are also suffering from indigestion too. It's just so hard to watch him suffer for so long.
Posting this thread just to let you know to be extra careful when feeding new food to your bird especially a sick one like ours. We regret that we did not take notice of the ingredients and assumed it must be good as it is formulated for birds that are in special needs.
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