Sailorwolf

Yep she would be a yellow face. She has very interesting feathers over her back there, the barring seems to have extended a little far. Quite cool How old is she cause her cere looks quite mature and she still has barring quite far forward on her head, it it possible thats he may have a bit of blackface in her.

Azrael

I disagree with her going to budgie heaven. If it is just a problem with the leg and the rest of her is fine, then she can live a perfectly normal life. Humans do it all the time and animals are very adaptable.

I believe that splayed legs is not hereditary . It is caused by the chicks nesting on a slippery floor or the hen sitting too tight on the babies. This causes their legs to splay out to the sides and to grow like that. Splayed legs can usually be fixed if caught from an early age by applying a foam splint to both legs to pull them back together. This is left on for a few days until the legs are back to normal. It can also be prevented by putting wood chips in the nest after the babies hatch (this way the hen won't throw the shavings out). I don't believe splayed legs are hereditary, although it is possible that some birds may be just a little more susceptible to it than others.

Saffy had that last condition (well the vet and I assumed this to be the case) and it is not always fatal, because when the egg passed into the peritoneal cavity it does not harden and is generaly pretty sterile. In Saffy's case, she just reabsorbed it.

Yes if it is in one leg I would say that it is a problem with the sciatic nerve of that leg. This can be caused, like Kaz said, by a tumour on or around the kidney. She could have also experienced problems while laying an egg which pressed on the nerve. My budgie Saffy had a similar problem, after nesting, her right leg was only 30% functional. I have taken her to the vet and had xray's and bloods done, but no sign of anything, so I am assuming it is due to an egg. However you must take her to a vet as soon as possible as this poor little bird is probably in pain for every minute that you wait, so even if you can't get a diagnosis, you may be able to get pain relief. For it to come on this quickly is a worry. Get her to a vet ASAP If it is a problem with the nerve I have found that physiotherapy has restored Saffy's function in her foot back to about 70-80% so far.

awwe how sweet. Isn't it interesting how his spots have changed?

Bea, hew do you get the nuts and washers to attach to the perch, in your natural perches.

Poor little Sara, she was such a sweety, but she will still live on for us.

The standard magnifications are: 40x 100x 200x 400x 1000x The eye piece in a microscope is already 10x, so the lenses you buy will be 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x and 100x the magnification of the eyepiece, multiplied by the lens magnification gives you your total magnification. You would want lenses of: 4x (this allows you do have a general view, allow you to find what you are looking for and focus properly) 10x and 20x are slightly closer and let you have a fairly good look at things. 40x lens is considered a high powered lens and is probably all you need to properly examine your samples 100x lens is an oil lens in which as others have said, you need oil between your lens and your sample, therefore you do not use coverslips. Generally as your increase the magnification you need to increase the light intensity as it starts to get a little darker in the smaller fields.

Well I picked her up today. She is doing well. I have to give her 3 shots of antibiotics into her pectoral muscle one a day for 3 days. She is doing well and I have taken her home and put her in her little cage with a lamp on and some blankets on top and Emmett to keep her company and put her morale up. Emmett was such a little poo today . I had to try and catch him to put him in with Saffy and because he is untame he made it as difficult as possible. Finally I caught him He was very upset and as soon as I put him into the little cage with Saffy his head just poofed right up and he started singing, don't mind the fact that a second ago I was manhandling him into the cage. But as soon as he saw Saffy he was like woooohooooo. And I saw the change in her too, she immediately climbed down to him and they both beak bopped each other. Emmett was so gentle too, he sang quietly and softly and only bopped her gently. He didn't move from her side for a good twenty minutes. I think he was just happy to see her again. She was happy too, both of their iris rings contracting and dilating. About the hysterectomy, I think I will consider having that done a few weeks down the track and probably when I have money too. Where Saffy was staying was the wildlife ward. It was really interesting. While I was in there with her, some of the nurses brought a harrier in, wrapped in a towel and were feeding it. It was soooo cute, I felt so lucky. And in an incubator on the other side of the room was a penguin looking rather disgruntled at having being locked inside this warm, but small environment.

The hysterectomy I would like to have performed, because I don't want this happening again. She is an old bird and I'm worried she will have more complications without one. Also a hysterectomy was being thought about because the egg had been in the uterus for over 48 hours, and after this time they start to bind to the uterus and the uterus may have to be taken out with it. This morning due to her prolapse, a hysterectomy was high on the cards as a prolapsed uterus can dies off and become unvascularised. This can't be returned to the body as it will die and cause infection. Luckily for her hers was not too affected by the prolapse

Well I got a call from the vet this morning and Saffy had prolapsed during the night and needed to go into surgery as soon as possible. I okayed it and got a call back an hour later to say that she had pulled through surgery quite well and is now staying in the incubator.They managed to get the egg out and push the uterus back in. I went to visit her later on today and she is looking really good. The vet said that to prevent this from happening in the future they could spay her or out her on hormone treatment. She didn't decide to do the hysterectomy on her as the uterus was still quite vascularised and everything. But I think that will be the choice in the future, because I don't want her to go through this again. However she needs a rest the poor little thing and that won't be happening for some time. The vet managed to get some more food into her and now Saffy is eating on her own. She is on lots of things at the moment, such as antibiotics ( to stop infection from any necrotic tissue that may have formed while her uterus was prolapsed) I didn't manage to catch them all, but the main one that I was listening out for was analgesiacs (or pain relief) and she is on those, which is great. She is staying another night as there is still a risk of another prolapse. But in the incubator next to her is a lovely little yellow and white (not lutino) cockatiel, who was trying his hardest to get her attention and talk to her. He was even tapping on the glass with his beak. He was such a sweety (I want him) and he will certainly make her stay less lonely. When I left she was chirping to him. The little tiel was in there with heavy metal poisoning, but he looked pretty happy. I think he was just happy to get some company. So hopefully she will be fine. I knew she would pull through she is such a little fighter and she is also stubborn. :ausb: Thanks for your support guys.

And what are the results so far?

Thanks you guys are awesome The support is great.

I just got a call form the vet. She says that even with the meds Saffy still hasn't passed the egg and that she doesn't look like she has been trying. Because that egg has been in there for over 48 hours it is most likely that it has started to bind to the uterus wall. So we could insert a needle into the egg and collapse it, but hat could mean the egg stays in there. The other option is surgery, where they will take the egg out and may have to do a hysterectomy. I think I will go for the surgery as it doesnot take much longer than the other procedure and they will be able to get all of the egg out. I have also asked that they do perform a hysterectomy as well so that this doesn't happen in the future. I will talk to the vet tomorrow and see what the costs are. She said that there is definitely an egg there as it showed on the Xrays and that she was able to feed Saffy some more food, but she said that there is also a chance that Saffy may deteriorate over night, so i have to be prepared for anything. Thanks for everything guys, wish us good luck.

Wow, poor little birdies and poor little Katie, but boy has she proved how responsible and mature she is to look after this little dude if s/he survives. Kudos to all three of you.

Bird on ground: Do you think my butt looks big in this? Bird on gym:Don't say anything, don't say anything, just keep doing pullups and maybe she'll forget about it. OR Bird on ground: Do you think my butt looks big in this? Bird on gym: Honey, you ain't gonna beat the flab unless you do some work. OR Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake your booty, shake your booty. OR Here we are at the Toronto Budgie olympics, where we can see Miss Ferree currently on the bar. In the foreground we can see Miss Jatem preparing for her stunt: 4 time olympic gold medalist, what will she bring to the table this time?

Sylar

Aww, Bea, you poor thing. I'm sorry to read about this, but at least Akala is not in pain anymore.

Well she still hasn't passed the egg. I took her into the vet today and they are keeping her over night. She was still relatively perky this morning, and still perching, but her left eye was closed in what I think was pain. When I went back to visit her later on, the vet said that they had got her stabilised and that she was breathing better now that she had been in the incubator and warmed up. She managed to get 3mls of food into her and she has had some fluids. I think calcium and glucose etc. When I visited she was about to go in to have some x rays taken. There are some risks involved with the anaesthesia. But I don't think she'll have a problem, she's a strong little girl and she handled anaesthesia really well last time. I'll go and check on her tomorrow. Here's hoping she'll be okay

I won't put her in the bathroom, because I don't wanna move her. But she is going to the vet tomorrow.

No she is naughty, I never intended on breeding her ever and now with her current problems it was a definate never breed her again. But she has chosen the food bowl as her nest and Emmett is her beau.

yep

She has had a swollen abdomen for the last three days, yesterday I felt somethign hard and expected her to lay it then. She didn't and still hasn't done so. I just found her then, all sleepy looking and with her eyes half closed. I have put her in a hospital cage, covered in balnkets and with a lamp on. She has food and water and I'm taking her to the vet tomorrow morning. Nothing booked, I'm just gonna rock up there and hope she gets treated, I think it is considered an emergency. Anyway thanks for listening. :budgiedance: