Nanny Adventures

Last week I took Lemongrass to the vets because she was doing a strange fluffy sitting on her swing and leaning on her toy. I couldn’t handle this bird ending up dead on the bottom of the cage…been there done that. 

Dr. Crum said she looked good and she even gained 1.0 gms since her last visting on February 12, 2008.  She now weighs 35 grams.  She is a porker..she goes on a diet soon! haha  He didn’t feel any eggs around her vent. He showed me how to feel for a “marble” type mass around her vent. That would be the egg getting trapped or bound.  Oh great now I get to feel up the bird to see if she is dying. 

Dr Crum said that he recommends starting her liquid calcium glubionate twice a day at .03cc drops orally!  I was thinking yeah right can I stick a syringe in her mouth. He said I could put it on food too. I was like great she has been ripping cucumber out of my hand during this “laying egg” period.  I will just put a drop on later tonight.  He gave her a dose there in the office.  She was held by the tech and Dr. Crum put it in her mouth..she was happy and fine.   This 15 bucks for a bottle and will last for an entire year, so if the eggs come back I can give her some more drops after the month is up!  Yes that is right a month of giving her drops twice a day.

Then he recommened a treatment course over 3 visits every 2 weeks of Lupron 50cmg.  Now you see Lupron is a drug that stops the production of eggs aka birdy birth control!   Yep I am putting my bird on birth control. This birth control shot is 28 bucks a pop.  That is more than a months worth of birth control pills for most!  But I won’t be stressing that she is egg bound anymore.

 I pay the bill of $134.56 which includes $77 bucks for the exam, and $14 for high potency Mash food and we leave. I go into the grocery store quickly to get her some cucumber and kale for the feedings.   She is in a smaller travel cage. I am going to use this for atleast the first 2 weeks as a “hospital setting” for her to recover.

We get home and she is glad to be back home. Later that night I attempt to get .03 cc’s into the syringe (fyi it doesn’t even show up..it is just a droplet in the bottom) and put it on the cucumber.  I open her cage and offer her the food..Lemongrass literally runs away from the cucumber!   I was like you are kidding me.  Then I put the droplet on my fingertip bc she will bite me…….Guess what she REFUSES!   I then snagged her out of the cage and jam the syringe thing into her beak opening to get it in there.   Every day I grab her out once or twice to give her the meds. I normally give her a bit more if it is once a day.  Dr. Crum said I can’t overdose her on it, which is good.

We go back on Tuesday for shot number 2.  Can’t wait!