Ashley, birb momMy flock (so far):8 year old Pineapple Green Cheek Conure, Finnie11 year old Green Cheek Conure, Teeko (rehome)12 year old Pearl Cockatiel, Pineapple (rehome)10 year old blue Pacific Parrotlet, Max Unknown aged Budgie, Doodle (found outside) ❤️❤️Sydney: 2001-2012❤️❤️❤️❤️Brooke: 2014-June 1, 2017❤️❤️❤️❤️Millie: 2007-August 3, 2018❤️❤️❤️Gracie: unknown-Sept 27, 2019❤️ ❤️Smitty: unknown-August 3, 2022❤️
There’s a difference between “if you can’t afford the vet don’t get pets” (which is true unfortunately) and like, someone starting a gofundme/donation post bc their pet has some sort of crazy unforeseen illness that was impossible to predict…dont be mean to ppl ebegging for their pets bc they budgeted $250 for shots and worm medicine and don’t have $2,000 laying around for feline MRI scans
Birds are truly the epitome of self care. Do you see how much time they spend grooming themselves? How many times a day they go get snacks? How often they scream at nothing just to let out an emotion we cannot understand? Inspiring.
I lost my sweet Gracie last night. She’d started laying eggs again and on Thursday night, she became egg bound. I brought her to my vet as soon as they opened yesterday morning and they gave her fluids and incubated her for a while. They gave her some oxytocin and she was able to finally push the egg out! Unfortunately, she kept pushing. And pushing and pushing until she prolapsed. The vet got everything back inside only for her to push it out again. The vet tried one more time to put it back in, but Gracie pushed it right back out. So they took her to surgery to put 2 stitches in her cloaca to hold everything in. Gracie’s stubborn though, she STILL managed to push a bit out. So she went back into surgery for a third stitch. Things were looking good after that and I was allowed to take her home, knowing that if she was having trouble pooping or developed another egg, I would have to remove the stitches. She was getting antibiotics and antiinflammatories. When we got home, she was tired but she was eating and pooping!! When I gave her her meds, she bit the crap out of me. Her sass was back! She was looking good and I was really hopeful that she was going to pull through. I had an alarm set to check on her in the middle of the night and that’s when I found her. I guess it was all just too much for her tiny body.
I love you, Gracie girl. I’m sorry for the life you had before we found each other and I hope your life with me and Max was a good one. Fly high and I’ll see you again at the rainbow bridge, naked girl. Say hi to everyone for me 💚
For some reason a lot of new members to a parrot chatroom I’m on seem to have recently purchased unweaned baby parrots.
UNWEANED BABY BIRDS ARE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO RAISE AND YOU SHOULD NOT BUY ONE!
Baby parrots need round-the-clock feedings, with expensive formula heated to an extremely precise temperature (otherwise it could burn them or cause infection), and weaning is a difficult process that can take months.
Parrots are highly intelligent and hand-feeding them is much like caring for a human baby, there are many factors just waiting to go wrong. Any reputable breeder who cared about the homes their birds are going to will not ship or sell you an unweaned baby, so take any breeder selling them as a red flag.
Buy an adult whose eating well on its own, or better yet adopt an older bird who needs a home!