VET VISIT UPDATE
Getting records for both of them put together. I'm going to a companion parrot conference at the end of the month, so I'll be ready to ask questions there. The doctor knows I am willing to do whatever is necessary, and she is on board with a second opinion.
The vet was able to get a blood sample from Jimmy's leg without problems! Enough for CBC and maybe also liver bile. I also dropped off 2nd giardia test samples. Blood test should be back around Monday.
We go in again Tuesday (she has laser therapy rehab for her scabs) and will talk more about the test results and what to do next. I'm just watching Beau until then to see if his wound heals or if he picks at it - it's more of a blood blister right now than a scab. It's no worse than yesterday.
MORE LIFESTYLE DETAILS (maybe TMI, but it's here)
Both show signs of malnutrition, but nothing in the tests has shown a deficiency yet. Jimmy's feather color is duller than it should be, and she has many black/grey feathers on the back of her head (they should be blue and green). Her beak is chippy. Beau has a discolored yellow feather on his leg and a couple small black spots on his wing elbow feathers.
With diet, they've spent most of their life on whatever at the time I was convinced was the most nutritious (before I learned what nutrients are in what, and what birds need) - Abba soaked seed, sprouted seed, ZuPreem natural, Roudybush - but minimal fresh foods. About a year ago I got Beau eating Harrison's Lifetime and got Jimmy on that maybe 6-8 months ago. For the last 2ish years I've been trying to add fresh veg or bean sprouts regularly - they eat some, not others.
Jimmy eats fruit/veg puree and Harrisons, milkthistle seeds, bok choy and occasionally will eat bell pepper, pepita and apple. She gets other stuff but I don't think she eats it.
More recently I got Beau off pellets completely and onto an evolving allergy conscious diet with help from the vet, the community here, and the local parrot sanctuary. He is on a quinoa based mash, bean sprouts, juices, a few superfood veggies and chia/milkthistle seeds. This has helped a lot, he's still having skin issues, but his GI symptoms have lessened and knock on wood, they are better as he's not had trouble there since Feb. He was getting dehydrated to the point of having trouble passing stool, would go off his food for a few days or have days where he ate nonstop and still cried for food, and had an instance of throwing up all night.
I clean with room temperature white vinegar.
Cages, they are stainless and each around 2x2ft wide/deep. Beau's cage overlaps a window about 50%. Both birds are fully flighted and fly daily indoors and are out most of the day. Jimmy gets outside on leash 1-2 hours daily. Beau I try to get outside for 30 minutes a day in small cage for sun, but I do skip days. Toys and perches I limit to natural only - flagstone, cholla, and perches with bark. Toy/perch hardware is stainless. Playstands are bottlebrush and java wood with bad metals (one I think is nickel coated eyelets and other is for sure galvanized steel - I removed most of them).
Toys are raffia pinatas, seagrasses, sisal rope, coconut husk, yucca, soft woods (usually pine) and veg tanned leather. Jimmy also has one of those rubbery plastic balls with holes in it (I think it's called Holey Roller), Beau eats toys so he doesn't have access to plastics.
. I know how awful that feels. 
Are your birds flighted? My cockatoo and my one gcc were much more confident with their wings and it reduced the amount of nervous energy that resulted in plucking.
