Too2   I was talking about the syringes with needles that you need a prescription for.  You can buy regular syringes at alot of bird stores.  I use one of those ones that you give kids medicine in.  I just wash it out each time.  One lasts forever.

 

Maggy Mays Mom   Glad everything is going smoothly! 

 

Indy

I'm so glad Maggymay is taking her medicine like a good girl should. Please do keep us posted on her progress.

I thought of somthing else that might help. I use the children's medicine droppers when I hand feed the baby 'tiels. I have minor nerve damage in my right hand. I have found that I have more control with a dropper than I do with a syringe. Another up side is that when I need a new one, I just ask at the pharmacy. Kroger & Walmart both have obliged. The down side is that it is a 5 cc (1 tsp.) so you wouldn't be able to measure a very small dose of liquid meds. You would have to mix it in the food and then suck it up into the dropper. It is great for giving birds their treats of baby food. Kit and Rica both get some hand-feeding formula every now & then. More often when I'm feeding babies. The tiels have all refused it once they were weaned. I've tried several kinds of baby food, hand feeding formula, even mashed potatoes (thinned of course) that Calypso adores normally. They see a syringe or dropper and they run, flap and/or fly as far away as possible.  

I hand feed and usually the box of syringes supplied with the chicks has 25 to 50 enclosed.... so I have oodles on hand.

But for my bird M2 I had to go looking and found a "horse" one as he liked a big beak full! Now I have quite a few of those on hand just incase!! and I trash them after a few sterilizing's in the dishwasher as the "rubber" part on the insert gets awkward due to swelling... Too2

I just got a 60cc one and that seemed huge!  I bought it to put cornstarch in like Annie said to do.  I have it ready and sitting in a baggy near the cage just incase I need it.

 

Thanks Annie!  Hubby thought I was crazy but I think it might help if a tail feather bleeds and you can't see where.  But I think maybe a 30cc one would have been easier to handle.

 

Indy

I use a 60 cc catheter tip syringe to give Diana her 10 ccs of fruit/med mix each morning. That's what I used to handfeed her years ago and she is terrified of smaller ones. I tried once to give her meds in a 1 cc and she bit the daylights outta me. The big ones fit my big hands really well. Good control with them. But you sure can't use them for med dosed by the drop.

 

I only use the ones with the silicone o-ring. They stay good for years. I buy them from one of the online specialty shops that carry lots of sizes. You cannot reuse them as long as I do when handfeeding babies, though. Not safe for their fragile little tummies.

Ours go in the dishwasher every night and I use a drop mineral oil to make them "slip" easily.

Ours are from avitec.com if you want to see them.

Annie

Wheew, I'm finally back.  Wedding shower and a family dinner on Saturday, and a "Sweet 16" party for my oldest granddaughter yesterday, and one of my daughter-in-laws had a hysterectomy this morning.  I'm glad Maggy May is doing so good, as I'm running out of steam with all the family goings-on. 

The pics in my album are the few that I've uploaded to my computer, so they don't show the cage setups very well.  Sunny and Babee (BFA and DYH) have cages with their playground between.  Maggy May and Pepper just have 2 cages side by side.  They had an inexpensive Acrobird playground that finally got too shabby to keep clean, and I haven't ordered a new one yet.  But it's on my "to do" list. 

You know, it's funny, but I don't have a clue where I am or what I'm celebrating in the pic of me.  It's been in the last year, as I got my camera on Christmas 2005.  I'm in a sleeveless top, so it's probably last summer.  Isn't that terrible???  And my son Brad is sitting next to me.  Maybe I'll call him and ask him where the heck we were.

Anyhow, Maggie is doing great with the Lasix.  It goes on a small bite of food, so I know it's been eaten.  The only thing that surprised me is that NONE of the birds would touch the little cube of poundcake so far, even with a little bit of peanut butter on it.  But I'm not giving up. 

That's "it" for tonight ladies, I'm totally beat.  More later ~ thanks again for being there. 

 

Yikes, I forgot to report on the droppings, so I came back into my Zen Room and logged back on to report that I can tell the droppings do have more water in them.  2 newspapers are necessary under their cages.  And I can always tell which poop is Maggy's and which is Pepper's.  And Maggy had some swelling in his face, in the area where cheeks would be, if a parrot had cheeks.  That was gone in 2 days. Of course, I should know how Lasix works, as my husband has congestive heart failure, and is on Lasix, along with 3 other heart medications.  I hope Maggy only needs Lasix, and no other heart medication down the line.  As Roseann Roseannadanna said, "it's always something..."  (Remember Gilda Radna's character on SNL?) 

 

 

 

Yeah, "busy" applies to me more than "bust".    

 

I'll have to find a full-length pic of me to put in my album so no one will think "bust".

i didn't know grey's needed extra......sheesh i'm learning a lot!