vaccines for eclectus

[Rani]

October will be one year since i have had Rani(female Ekkie). I just scheduled a vet appointment for her just to make sure she is doing fine. The nurse on the phone suggested polyoma shot. Is this necessary? What else should i ask for?

Her last years visit the vet just looked at her feathers and overall look and charged me $75... I have changed vets this time and the shot is $30.

Any other suggestions?

chrisi

 

[ShreddedOakAviary]

We give polyoma vaccine to every baby in our aviary before they leave( vet sells us the vial and vaccine in bulk). However, I don't think a single one of our adult birds has the vaccine. We do the babies because we take them to bird shows and they come in contact with a lot of people. The vaccine is actually (at least here) very costly, and if your bird is not dealing with high traffic or exposure to other birds I honestly would not do it. Although if you do, keep in mind a bird only needs the vaccine just once in its life.

 

[ShreddedOakAviary]

When I go in I tend to just ask them to take a blood sample for me and then I send my own tests into Avianbiotech....

 

[Rani]

Thank you for that information.

She is the queen of the house. Only bird i have so now i am thinking if it is worth it for her to get it.

I dont think her breeder gave this shot to her. I got her from pretty parrot. I have not had good experience with this breeder to begin with.

Thank you
chrisi

 

[Cowtown]

Rani, good question.. I just took Abby in and the Avian vet did not mention her needing any vaccines.

 

[ShreddedOakAviary]

Polyoma is a virus that is fatal in young and unweaned birds, so unless you end up with a yound bird I wouldn't worry too much about the older one getting ill, but if your bird has polyoma then he/she is a carrier and any un vaccinated unweaned babies who come in contact with your bird or bird related item are headed for birdie heaven. This is why we vaccinate our neonates. One bird with polyoma will wipe out an entire nursery and there is no treatment or cure... just all gone in 24hours. I saw a breeder loose thirty babies in 2 days from polyoma.