aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 hi guys, hope some one can help me with this. Echo is a 3 month old CAG who has a slight discoloration on his beak (greyish brown) unlike the rest of it which is black. its half way from the base to the tip and about a cm in length and along the ridge. also i have noticed that his nails are a lighter color around the base. they are black at the tips but greyish at the base. also he eats nothing but seeds. he'll eat two cups of seeds in a day but nothing else. hes drinking and pooing and there is no smell and is VERY VERY active. wants out of the cage all day. which is also a problem because he has taken to biting the hell out of the cage. he'll go in happily when he is sleepy. but during the day he just doesnt want to be inside despite the toys. he plays with those toys if i keep them outside and loves them but in the cage he doesnt touch them at all. just jumps around the cage climbing the walls and hangs off the roof upside down and literally flies out the second i open the door.
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 or if some one could check the nails on their grey and lemme know?
Luvparrots Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 Echo looks like my sweet Timneh, Ana Grey. Such a lovely TAG.
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 erm no... those are timnehs... my cellphone broke and i dont have a propper camera so i cant send you any current pictures... but if you darkened the color on your timneh's beak then it would i guess look a little like the color of a timnehs beak. plus the coloring isnt as large a patch as that. its only on the ridge of the beak and is central to both the base and the point of his beak...
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 https://www.flickr.com/photos/123653746@N02/sets/72157645468860865/ the last picture here is the most recent one i have of him which was something about a month back.
2birds Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 I don't see the grayish brown coloring that you speak of in this photo
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 yes thats whats worrying me... it has showed up recently like a week back it started but i figured he probably wore his beak thin chewing on stuff. but he is definitely not a timneh. its on the ridge only. not wide. and longer than wide. if i were to compare, its like if you had a discoloration on the nose of a person half way between the eyebrows/bridge and the tip.
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 When in doubt, call your avian vet! aaaah i wish we had those in pakistan i might have known better than buying one unweaned also then. ive asked a pet store owner im friendly with to import pellets, which he has, and are on their way over this minute, but even tropican pellets or other such parrot food isnt available here. we have to make everything ourselves.
2birds Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 It's just impossible to even begin to guess when there is nothing to look at.
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 yeah i know! im uploading photos i just took with a friends phone for you to see. i hope they are clear enough. the beak you can see but im not sure of the nails. on the plus side he seems to really like the pellets! just fed them to him for the first time. he's happily chomping away at the moment.
2birds Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 I don't see anything wrong with the feet and the mark on the beak appears to be from rubbing
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 hmm. alright then. i thought like in humans, discoloration generally means undernourishment or lack of essential minerals and vitamins etc. sounds good then! thanks! i'll keep an eye on it for some time in any case ^^
aunali9 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 alright just one last thing, when ure parrots eat do they eat all day in small amounts or at once one large meal? im used to seeing my parrots crop pretty full from back when he was hand fed. since he has stopped having formula, he eats other food, but never a large amount in one go. and dry pellets are all good right? im using the tropican ones. i think he isnt too fond of mushy food. he is much more content with crunchy food.
Timbersmom Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 Timber picks at his food off and on all day. He eats larger portions at times (like first thing in the morning) but is more of a grazer overall. That said, I can see fullness in his crop fairly often, though it isn't bulging like an unweaned bird's.
2birds Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 I give my birds a lot of things. I chop up a lot of stuff like carrots, peppers, celery, apples, pomegranate, what ever I think of that's good for them and mix it with quinoa and brown rice. I have a tendency to eat a lot of salads with spring mix leaves, cranberries, nectarine, and chicken and they like to share that with me. I give them roudybush pellets. They also like to eat warm oatmeal with chopped up apple off of a spoon at night. They will lick red palm oil off of a spoon too or I'll put some on some on a piece of whole grain bread. They also get seeds and grains and I will sprout the seeds sometimes and they love that.
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