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Oh I hope Nico likes his figs, they're so yummy! Tell him I'll have 'em if he doesn't want 'em!!View attachment 53704
Nico is trying figs for the first time. So far we’ve only been inspecting. Nico is always hesitant on trying new fresh foods. A lot of times he doesn’t end up eating them.
Oh poor baby, it never rains but it pours, huh? I hope his eye and his nail and everything else will be ok!View attachment 54171
On top of Nico’s already bad day. I trimmed his nails. One bled, and I clotted it with quikstop. The nail is fine, but he scratched his eye. He got quikstop in his eye, and there was blood (not sure if it was from his nail). I got it rinsed out with a spray bottle. He held his eye closed for a little bit. He squinted for a bit after that. Now it seems okay. Yes, his vet was contacted. Just waiting to hear back if she wants to see him, or if she thinks he’s fine.
Bummer! Maybe you should have the vet do his nails from now on.Oh poor baby, it never rains but it pours, huh? I hope his eye and his nail and everything else will be ok!![]()
I wish it were that easy. His vet has limited availability, and she is over an hour away. If I take him to a regular vet that isn’t avian certified they will see him, and try to treat the situation (in dire situations). Then they refer him back to his vet.Bummer! Maybe you should have the vet do his nails from now on.
Another remedy I heard for cutting into the quick is to scrape the nail across a solid bar of a very plain soap - the soap supposedly plugs up the nail and stops it from bleeding. I haven't ever had to do it myself but I think I might if I was in that situation, particular if as you say you think the quikstop might have gotten into Nico's eye and stung him? Hope you hear back from his vet soon and that everything is OK!Nico’s nail will be fine. About twice a year I cut into the quick. I trim a little off his nails at least once a month. I’m hoping to train him to do it calmly. He now lets me trim them on his perch. I have trimmed Nico’s nails and beak for quite sometime now. Even at a vets office, or a pet store the quick gets cut into. In cats & dogs too. My puppy has black nails, and they are always the worst to cut as you can’t see the quick. He unfortunately gets his quick cut into. This happens at his vet, and the last time we brought him to the local pet store. He’s too hyper for me to cut his nails. Clotting is simple if you know how to do it. When Nico feather plucks, and I mean try’s to rip out feathers I have to clot them too.
What changed this time is when he went to itch/scratch his eye he did it with the nail that had quikstop on it. It got in his eye. Then he tried to rub his eye all over his perch. I’m guessing it stings, and I know it has a numbing agent in it. Once I rinsed his eye out he calmed down some. He’s doing much better. I just couldn’t tell if the blood was from his nail, or from rubbing his eye on his perch. I can’t see a scrape on his eye. That’s why I contacted his vet. I wouldn’t contact his vet from cutting into his quick. That’s easy to clot, and I just disinfect his perches to make sure an infection doesn’t occur.