Yippee! The budgies are free of treatment cage! They are so happy, singing their hearts out!!!
Ta-dah is 80 grams! Her lowest and sickest she was 65 , so 18.75% gain back!!
Saxguy, I know you been following, so if my math is wrong let me know!
Phoebe ( previously Orbit) is a new all time high!! 106 grams!!! Lowest was 90, so a 15% gain. She is still growing so some of that gain is due to that. When I brought her home in November she was 92.
Penny is 110 grams, her lowest was 94 grams so 14.5% gain
Pikachu......still has periorbital swelling by left eye...she is 113grams her lowest was 105 grams so 7.7% gain....but her normal is 115, and her highest was 118( chunky at that weight tho) will be keeping a close eye on her.
Day 60 of doxycycline treatment is the 24th. But I think I only have enough meds to treat Pikachu tomorrow and Thursday.
I'm so happy ! I'm so thankful to my vet! And thank you all for your support and encouragement!! There were some rough low days!
Quick recap for guests. This is 4 months of treatment and sick birds!!!!!!!!
I got called to rescue an escaped budgie in November. Its believed he brought in a strain of wild bird chlamydia.
Penny got sick first, at the end of December, the day before she was fine( not really was just hiding how very sick she was) . The morning she decompensated she was full out fluffed, would not eat, one boute diarrhea . I weighed she was her normal 100 ( that was her normal before) I out a heat panel on her, called and did video consultation, picked up medication next morning, which was almost to late. Penny was life or death fight for her life for 2 weeks , but very sick for longer.
I weighed the rest of the flock the day Penny broke with symptoms, they were normal weight. They had no symptoms. I weighed them a week later . Every single burd had lost4-12% body weight!!!!! No symptoms! Vocal, eating, playing, chewing. All were started on treatment immediately.
Some later developed symptoms, from green urine, rare sneeze or 2,. Penny developed intermittent sinus draining and squint eye. If I worked away from home I might never have seen clear sinus draining, because nostril would quickly dry.
Later Pikachu developed periorbital sinus swelling by left eye, rare draining.
Ta-dah was difficult to treat and would vomit medicine. She became very sick snd has bouts of loose stool and increased wetness urine ten fold. She never stopped eating, or acted sick ( except 2 days at her worst) her behavior was normal, active.
This is the 3rd round of treatment to clear this nasty infection. Azithromyacin was used to save Penny's life. Azithromyacin is a extremely fast acting broad spectrum bactrocidal antibiotic. They received an extended treatment. 10 days after they relapsed and the extra extended doxycycline treatment was started. 41-45 day is usual treatment needed to clear chlamydia/psittacosis . My vet extended to tge safety margin of 60 days. Yogurt was fed to counter act antibiotic diarrhea from such extended treatment. It must have live Acidophilus and Lactobacillus culture and no artificial sweetners.
Anyway to much to go through it all. Just a big take away , know your birds weight, weigh weekly. Weigh daily when sick. Act quickly with weight loss of 3% or more, act like its sn emergency life and death if your birds goes off food, fluffs, extra naps/ sleepy/ eyes keep closing, or has any symptoms!!!
Extra warmth, I use a radiant heat panel is extremely important for sick burds, extra high calories foods, and possibly hand feeding baby bird formula may be need if loosing weight and not eating. Penny took 10 days of hand feeding formula every few hours during the day. I do not condone heat lamps, as many burds get burned or die. My vet has seen many heat lamp victims. I used sweeter heater found on Amazon. Or K and H
Cage warmer.
Please already have an avain vet, already have a scale, act immediately if your burd seems sick! I don't care if they were fine the day before, they weren't they were just hiding it, until they became critical and couldn't hide it anymore.
For tradition. Today's veggies, cucumber, asparagus, Swiss chard, red chili peppers, green beans, fresh corn on the cob. Today they chose Swiss chard as favorite with cucumber as close second. Im out of picture space. But I will get an old one add
Penny and Cloudy
Edit: a little insight into life with MG, currently one eyelid is malfunctioning and stuck closed, one leg is temporarily paralyzed, and I'm having difficulty speaking. Tomorrow everything will reset as acetylcholine reserves will build back up...
