Twosteph Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Well, the bird had a bump on its head. It was taken to the vet, where they said it was a bug bite. Two vets were working on the baby at the same time, they lanced it and removed some of the fluid. The baby was put on Baytril and a pain/anti-inflamatory, along with some cream and cleaning wash. The bump then got bigger, so the bird was taken back to the vet yesterday. The baby has surgery, and the vet removed three granulomas that weren't attached. The vet said they had no idea what had caused this. We are now testing the baby for aspergillosis. The baby is doing very well, though. Eating like a horse, and growing like weeds. Here are pictures from this morning's feeding session. They get so messy, ha.
Twosteph Posted January 17, 2009 Author Posted January 17, 2009 *Note the stitches on the left birds head. Post edited by: Twosteph, at: 2009/01/17 01:05<br><br>Post edited by: Twosteph, at: 2009/01/17 01:06
Twosteph Posted January 17, 2009 Author Posted January 17, 2009 <br><br>Post edited by: Twosteph, at: 2009/01/17 01:04
casper Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 Steph, thankyou for updating us. I do hope everything will be fine with your new baby. Please make sure to update us. Karma for the beautiful pictures:)
danmcq Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 What a trooper that baby Grey is! Acts like it didn't phase him/her at all. I love the photos. :-)
Twosteph Posted January 19, 2009 Author Posted January 19, 2009 danmcq wrote: What a trooper that baby Grey is! Acts like it didn't phase him/her at all. I love the photos. :-) No kidding! I feel so bad for it. Hopefully everything comes back negative.
Luvparrots Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 Thinking only good thoughts for the baby grey. Please let us know as soon as you hear.
Twosteph Posted January 20, 2009 Author Posted January 20, 2009 Mondays appointment had to be rescheduled to Wed. due to extreme fog yesterday. We find out the sex of the birds hopefully by Friday. The DNA samples are being sent in today.
judygram Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Thanks Steph for letting us know about the appt being rescheduled and let us know what you find out Wednesday.
she Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 Thanks Steph. I am waiting to hear how the little hero gets on.
Twosteph Posted January 22, 2009 Author Posted January 22, 2009 Everything came back negative. The granuloma's were probably from a bug bite. I'm beside myself happy:silly:
judygram Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 Glad to hear everything came back negative and your baby grey should be fine, thanks for letting us know.
Luvparrots Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 This is absolutely great news!!! Happy, happy, happy!!
Twosteph Posted January 22, 2009 Author Posted January 22, 2009 Now its just time to watch the little guy/girl grow past all this I can't wait to find out its gender:cheer:
Lyric Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 That is great! Poor baby, having to have surgery at that age. It's good the problem was taken care of though. I am happy for you that the tests came back okay. Let us know if you have a little baby boy or girl when you find out!
danmcq Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Great news Steph!! As fast as they grow, photos each week are expected. ;-)
Twosteph Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 I would be posting photo-crazy atm if I had the choice. Its up to the breeder to send me pictures though, I wish I could drive all the way over there every week:(
Twosteph Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 She is a girl. We're all stunned, we thought she was the boy, and the other was the girl:blink: Good thing we did test. Now its time to think of names:)
EFGriffith Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Yay, congratulations!!! I feel like lighting up a little pink cigar As far as Tango's name, I think it took us around a month of having him to settle on it. Are you leaning toward human names, African names, mythical names...? If I had it to do over again and had a female baby I'd name her Heather, as in the color heather gray.
Twosteph Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 Man, I don't know. My dogs name is Captain America, but I was thinking something like Suki for the bird. My mom suggested Red, or Sally. :laugh:
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