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Perhaps in future you could do all your venting here on the forum and take care to be as diplomatic as possible with the Vet and staff?

The darker colored sperm, the better. Mario says sperm can last for up to 1/2 hour but recommends you do the insemination as soon as possible.

I've already bought the DVD and kit. Very interesting and extremely well explained. I tried feeling for nuts on a couple of birds with no results .... will continue to persevere!

I use Ray Butler in Applecross- he's excellent too!

I use black sunflower seed and add 1 cup to my softfood daily. Didn't know about it being too oily but haven't had any ill-effects. Mind you 1 cup isn't very much.

But I couldn't have just let her die or taken a pair of scissors to her leg .... and no, I can't just replace her just like that - she's a Cec Gearing hen.

I would be offended,if a vet charged me $150 to chop off a budgies foot. I saw a foot cut off many years ago with a pair of sissors. The bloke was giveing a demo on how to trim the feathers around the vent & snipped the foot off, I understand $60 was for the amputation and the remaining $90 was for 6 days hospitalization costs and daily injections of Lincospectin.

Vet costs: $150. She has 2cm of leg left, the vet cut it above the joint. Thats the same as my DF dom pied PEGLEG. She will learn to use the stump as a prop to balance like he does. The price you were charged was very low considering...your vet did right by you Indeed, some people who are cruel would let it die and save $130 by buying another one for $20...like i always say, a bird's health is priceless Yes, the vet was very considerate. As I have mentioned on other posts, the last bird I lost was back at the end of December last year when I was away on holidays- I do not intend to lose another - especially NOT to negligence. I did consider that it was ironic that I was spending $150 to turn her into a pet but that's just an afterthought as I could never let her die a miserable death.

Vet costs: $150. She has 2cm of leg left, the vet cut it above the joint.

No she's fine now. She was chirping all the way home and just a few minutes ago she was preening herself. I think I'll keep here there with the other old timers/ disabled birds.

Quite.

Nope! Neither did I expect to see pics of my big fat *** on the forum when I helped Kaz with dismantling the big aviary I remember asking your permission to post those photos too and you said YES Don't worry about it! Next time I'll have a look at them first

Actually that's just the tumour without infection.

Nope! Neither did I expect to see pics of my big fat *** on the forum when I helped Kaz with dismantling the big aviary

any updates on her?...this is why i get pissed off with vet's to...they assume everything, make u pay top money to have them fixed, and yet they still dont do **** to fix it....the vet obviously has no idea what he's doing....tumor from a cut? come on.... i'd sue him if he lets the poor thing die from it Well actually I am happy with her care and ultimate treatment. I was pissed off that I'd no longer be able to breed with her again as she's been a valued breeder. But once I saw the foot without infection it was obvious that it was a tumour .... previously I just didn't want to believe it 'cause I didn't want to contemplate the consequences. So here's the tumour: Here's Fussy Chook in her new cage: Here she is with 'friends':

Me neither Heath! But it doesn't stop people posting pics of me on the forum ..... I would resign yourself in advance!

The vet decided to keep her in last night to monitor. Supposedly I pick her up today.

Excellent job Jimmy! :hooray: I can see why your wife wants to capitalise on you new-found carpentry skills :hooray:

Yes, I did! It was an awsome experience but I ended up missing my hubby terribly. I remember on the Saturday night Kaz, I and Trish Van Dyke sat around talking about the absent husbands By this time I was completely budgied-out! During the day I helped out with the stewarding (carrying the birds to and from the staging where they were being judged) I was so anxious and petrified 'cause I was sure I was going to drop a budgie or something and bring disgrace to my state! I signed up for the stewarding thinking it would be a nice cushy job and a great opportunity to see the birds .... HUH! We were up at the crack of dawn and because of the way we had to carry the show cages you hardly had a moment to even look at a bird or two! Quite frankly after lugging all those cages to and from the venue I was completely over it all! But I wouldn't have missed it for the world! It was so exciting with the point system and every body baracking for their own states and the socials were great fun too! I love budgies and talking about budgies so I was in heaven and alternatively *** with the stewarding- only kidding!

WA Pre-selections are being held on May 17th.

That is so wierd :glare: Have you taken him to the vet for a prognosis?

Well I've just come back from the vet's. He has been giving her injections of lincospectin daily and I had a look at her leg. Really there isn't any infection left but her leg is still swollen and it's a hard mass so I am going to defer to his expertise. :glare: She will be operated on tomorrow and leg will come off just above the 'elbow' joint. He told me to pick her up tomorrow night. So Fussy Chook's headed for a life of luxury in the Retirement Village- after her convalescence of course.

No news from the vet so I decided to call him and find out what was going on. He said she wasn't responding to antibiotics and the foot was no better. :glare: He then said it had to be a tumour. When I asked him for the basis of this prognosis he replied it was because she wasn't responding to treatment. When I pressed him further he said that taking a sample of her leg was dicey because she might start bleeding profusely which would be hard to manage and the stress of it all wasn't warented. He said I should come in to discuss amputating her foot. I cannot tell you how pissed off I am.

Yep, spot on! But what threw me off course was the reference that fungus proliferates in Ph levels of 3-4!!!! How can that be, that would make its optimum conditions aciddy and I understood that fungus grows in alcaline conditions. Daz?????? :sad:

**** happens Daz but obviously I blame myself. In part it is because they are maiden hens and I've always had troubles with the 'first timers' but mainly I think it is because I put the hens down when they were going out of condition (ie ceres were beginning to change) and although the ceres coloured up nicely once the cocks were introduced I think they were just past optimum condition so once the chickies started to hatch they were not interested. Although 'logically' I would have thought that maternal instincts should have been stronger..... So in effect I guess this is a studied lesson on what happens when you put your interests ahead of the birds. :sad: Ironically they went down only 4 weeks ahead of when I usually put them down but a month is evidently a lifetime in budgie fitness. On the week end I pulled 1/3 of the birds out of the cabinets and am just carrying on with birds that show best condition for breeding. The move is up in the air, no confirmation that we wil be moving at all now, so I'm just putting it out of mind.