BARE EYED COCKATOO SHAKES HER HEAD PLUS

If this is the case and this diet has been caused by free-feeding seeds with no adequate produce intake and vitamin and mineral supplements, it could be the cause of the low calcium, too. The bird appears to have deficient liver and kidney functions (high uric acid, high AST and creatinine) and, although the high uric acid and creatinine levels could be due to dehydration, it seems to me that, combined with the high AST, the combination would indicate a diet too rich in protein (I am NOT a vet, I just have a bit of experience with sick birds).

I know of birds that produced soft-shelled eggs that actually had perfectly normal and even mildly high serum calcium levels.

BARE EYED COCKATOO SHAKES HER HEAD PLUS

This is because, as birds are able to move calcium in an out of their bones plus their blood calcium levels fluctuate during the day and the seasons, it's never really accurate (you need an ionized calcium test for that). I had a hard time reading the blood work results - I did see that the calcium result appears normal but, in birds, blood calcium is not indicative at all of the actual calcium level in the body. The symptoms you mention could easily be attributed to low calcium, too. I couldn't actually see the picture (it appears to be too big) so I don't know what species you have but I had two female umbrella cockatoos and they both had black eyes so I would not go with that. The black eyes in males is not for all species and, in truth, I am not sure it works for any species of cockatoos.

Wolf Macaw Gender: Posts: 8679 Location: Lansing, NC Number of Birds Owned: 6 Types of Birds Owned: Senegal Personally, I would take this bird to the vet and get new tests done. In matters of a birds health it is not usually going to help us by being brief as the more detailed information that we have the better we can attempt to give you accurate answers. There is indication of trauma which could have been cause by the bird falling, but again can't say the cause of the trauma.Īs I have said, I am not a vet and my interpretation of the lab results provided could easily be all kinds of wrong.ĭo you have any more up to date information that we could see as the comparison of the two could help tremendously. It seems that his first thought is the possibility of PDD, but would likely have needed more tests to determine what is actually going on but is definitely concerned about dehydration and the indications of long term malnutrition in this bird. The vet appears to suspect the presence of some kidney disease and possibly tumors of the central nervous system. I am not a vet or anything close and although no sex was mentioned in the blood work which is over a year old it mentions egg yolk embolism which is when some of the egg yolk gets into the blood stream which is highly suggestive of an egg binding incident so it suggests to me that this bird is a female. P.S only other thing i can add is his weight is not the best either but his poo seems fine no food in it etc Attachments Bum area at time of illness last year this has now gone but vet said he had no idea what it was Snowy's blood test Markmmmm Parakeet Gender: Posts: 2 Number of Birds Owned: 2 Flight: Yes We was kind of left in the dark after these test results came back so have had to plod on over the last year, he fluctates up and down and he is still displaying the above symptoms but he is less shaky now and does not fall off his perch quite as often i have lowered them asw ell to decrease the fall if he doesĪny advice or ideas? apart from PDD as i understand that is mentioned on the test results but to be honest don't make much sense thank you in advance hope this is not to confusing Long story short we took him to the Vets and nothing showed up on his X-ray and attached below is his blood test results can anybody make any sense of them maybe a small insight into what could be wrong? Vocally he seems his normal self, his eating seems ok but to be fair his diet could be better but he is a very fussy eater which is a problem and his climbing around the cage seems perfectly fine aswell Unable to walk properly he stumbles about as if he is drunk Unstable and shaking on his perch and Falling of his perch and very poor balance, sometimes holding on to the bars with his peak Just a year ago now Snowy started getting poorly and displaying the following symptoms First time member so i will try to keep this as short and simple as possible about my poorly cockatoo snowy

Bare eyed cockatoo shakes her head