Post by clt80 on Jul 26, 2015 16:05:22 GMT
When I went to my avian vet a few months back with Bertie, one of my budgies, I ended up bringing home a little blue budgie they had there. His owner had brought him in as he wasn't well and told the vet to put him to sleep, the vet refused as she said he just had an eye infection that was treatable and that the vets would cover the cost of his treatment and rehome him when he was better.
So I took the little bird home in what was about April time, he was about 4 months and I called him Gene Hunt. He is delightful, so friendly but....he is not a well budgie. The vets said he was fully recovered and since April he has been back and forth to them. They are very good and do not charge for his treatment but I feel so sorry for him. He has baldness on the back of his neck and around his eyes and some of fluffy baby feathers on his back. His eyes are a constant worry as they get very bad.
My hope was for him to eventually go with my other birds in the aviary but he just isn't well enough and I worry the other birds would peck him due to how he looks. I'm not sure he has 20/20 vision however I do believe he does have vision of some sort in both eyes.
The right eye is worse than the left, it is always gunky and must be infected as the yellow gunk matts all his feathers (the few he has around his eyes) and I end up trying to clean them with soaked cotton wool. Each time he goes back to the vet they admit him in for a week or so then he comes home with a different regime of eye drops or antibiotics to put in his water. His droppings are always quite runny, although this could be due to the medication he has always been on. He is currently on Tylan in his water but his eyes are weeping yellow infected stuff again.
The vet has asked me if I wanted to give him back as they've realised they had re-homed a sick budgie but I've said no, I am not giving up on him.
I've scoured the interest to research budgie eye problems but they all result in saying take the bird to an avian vet.
Gene is okay in himself, but he is always rubbing his face along the bars of his cage and the feathers on his face go hard from the weeping of his eyes. His eyes are always watering and when feathers poke in them from time to time I have to pull them out with tweezers.
I just feel so sorry for the little guy, he jumps on my finger so trusting and each time I am dropping eye drops into his eyes or (gently) rubbing cotton wool across his eyes in an attempt to clean them.
I'm at a dead end, I don't know what to do with him. The vets just say it's an eye infection but it doesn't seem to go away and I don't want them doing intrusive tests on him.
The baldness on the back of his neck intrigues me; I wonder if he has an underlying problem and the eye infection is a secondary issue. I will try to put some pictures on of him.
Any help would be most appreciated!!!!
So I took the little bird home in what was about April time, he was about 4 months and I called him Gene Hunt. He is delightful, so friendly but....he is not a well budgie. The vets said he was fully recovered and since April he has been back and forth to them. They are very good and do not charge for his treatment but I feel so sorry for him. He has baldness on the back of his neck and around his eyes and some of fluffy baby feathers on his back. His eyes are a constant worry as they get very bad.
My hope was for him to eventually go with my other birds in the aviary but he just isn't well enough and I worry the other birds would peck him due to how he looks. I'm not sure he has 20/20 vision however I do believe he does have vision of some sort in both eyes.
The right eye is worse than the left, it is always gunky and must be infected as the yellow gunk matts all his feathers (the few he has around his eyes) and I end up trying to clean them with soaked cotton wool. Each time he goes back to the vet they admit him in for a week or so then he comes home with a different regime of eye drops or antibiotics to put in his water. His droppings are always quite runny, although this could be due to the medication he has always been on. He is currently on Tylan in his water but his eyes are weeping yellow infected stuff again.
The vet has asked me if I wanted to give him back as they've realised they had re-homed a sick budgie but I've said no, I am not giving up on him.
I've scoured the interest to research budgie eye problems but they all result in saying take the bird to an avian vet.
Gene is okay in himself, but he is always rubbing his face along the bars of his cage and the feathers on his face go hard from the weeping of his eyes. His eyes are always watering and when feathers poke in them from time to time I have to pull them out with tweezers.
I just feel so sorry for the little guy, he jumps on my finger so trusting and each time I am dropping eye drops into his eyes or (gently) rubbing cotton wool across his eyes in an attempt to clean them.
I'm at a dead end, I don't know what to do with him. The vets just say it's an eye infection but it doesn't seem to go away and I don't want them doing intrusive tests on him.
The baldness on the back of his neck intrigues me; I wonder if he has an underlying problem and the eye infection is a secondary issue. I will try to put some pictures on of him.
Any help would be most appreciated!!!!