Anyone had any dealings with Companion Vets?

[Rob]

As there is one, in the pets at home near me...it popped up when i did a more extensive search on Avian vets in swansea..i was just wondering if they were any good etc?

-Rob

[barrieshutt]

My experience of avian vets and i mean my experiences, they only know the basics , i have on more than one occassion discovered they " phone a friend" , sounds a bit like us, sadly that friend cannot see the birds , sounds a bit like us again, this is why baytril was made availble, when in doubt give baytril.lol

Apart from two that know the best avian vets are working with the zoos, have you a zoo in your area Rob , if so ring them for their vets contact number.

[Rob]

i was afraid you'd say that...no unfortunately no zoo's nearby, i was quite disheartened yesterday when my vet said your budgie is a male......and then googled it in-front of me.....and found out he was wrong.....

[Marianne Marlow]

Oh dear. That isn't a good sign...

[Marianne Marlow]

Reminds me of when I went to the PDSA and they said that the budgies legs should all be pink. I had to restrain myself from going on and on about how it depended on the mutation of the budgie. I knew it would go over their heads!

[Rob]

tell me about it....i've been meaning to ask, is giving Daisy Baytril orally quite hard\dangerous? would rather give it to her that way, than via water....im almost sure i've seen Barrie say something about it before (giving meds orally)

[barrieshutt]

I use a crop tube Rob , in the wrong hands they are dangerous, with a little tution it is easy.

Use a ml syringe and feed her a few drops slowly twice a day and coming in from the left of the beak

[Rob]

so just basically put it into her mouth and let her "drink it" as i push the syringe

-Rob

[stace]

Since Daisy is drinking a lot of water, won't she get enough meds if it's in the water?

[Rob]

She's not too fussed on the water with baytril :/ plus the water pot is quite a stretch for her to get into to drink the 10ml of water....and she wont drink from a water feeder

[stace]

May 5, 2012 11:54:05 GMT Rob said:

She's not too fussed on the water with baytril :/ plus the water pot is quite a stretch for her to get into to drink the 10ml of water....and she wont drink from a water feeder

You should be making it up in more water than 10mls. Scale the percentages up so that you are making it up in 50mls. That way it's easy for her to drink from.

[stace]

What was the ml amount the vet told you to use? I was using a baytril-like product and was using 0.1ml per 100ml of water. I made it up in the morning, gave my bird half at breakfast, and put the other half in the fridge to serve up at dinner time.

[Rob]

he said 0.1ml per 10ml

[stace]

May 5, 2012 12:03:52 GMT Rob said:

he said 0.1ml per 10ml

Hmmmmmm. Let me check my pack.

[Hezz]

I have had both prescribed to me, Rob. A "dose" which amounted to about half a ml to be "given" or a stronger dose of the same, a drop to be given. So much easier to give a drop. By the time you get not even half the supposed dose they are throwing their heads all over, and as a new-comer (as I was then) I would suggest that at least half went onto their feathers, and less than half into their beak.

While a crop tube and feed/medication is for the experienced and only to be showed by an expert, a syringe directly into her beak (slowly slowly) allowing her to swallow is quite an easy way to administer treatment, I found.