Hope she pulls through

[Ariel]

Oh Ariel I'm so sorry to hear the latest update..

I don't know anything about wing amputations in birds... I only know that dogs who have legs amputated, don't even notice the missing leg. So, I can only hope that a bird missing a wing might adapt the same way.

I hope the surgery goes well

Thanks, Jairi.

From what I hear they're suppose to adept pretty well to loosing a wing, but I'm having a hard time finding any accounts for this online. (stories) so I dunno. I'm pretty worried.

 

[Teal]

I wouldn't worry about it too much You're doing your best to try and help her... and that's all that matters! If it works, that is awesome.. if it doesn't - then atleast you tried.

 

[<3exoticpets]

Sorry to hear that an amputation is necessary. It isn't all bad though. Birds tend to recover quickly and adjust well afterwards. I will see if I can find articles to link for you. Best of luck in surgery.

 

[<3exoticpets]

http://www.exoticpetvet.net/avian/surgery.html
scroll to the bottom under "specific surgeries", then read the "before and after surgery" section below it.


http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-breeders/ask-the-vet/ask-the-vet-2004-03-01-11069.aspx

 

[Ariel]

Thanks guys, the surgury was around mid day today, I saw her in the morning and she was looking perkier, (though physically she looked pretty beaten up). I haven't gotten a chance to see her since the surgury because of work but my family did and they said she was eating like she was starving, is talking some, and that the dr. said the surgury went really well. She'll be coming home tomorrow afternoon, unfortunately I won't beable to see her until tomorrow night because I work again.

 

[Shell]

Happy to hear that she made it through and is doing well

 

[Ariel]

Well Daisy is home with us now. She's doing pretty good, a little talkative. She's pretty drugged up though, and she's a little lopsided now. She's only fallen twice so far. She looks like crap, but she'll heal.

Here she is from before the accident:

And here she is after:

She'll be going in every week to have a bandage change. We haven't gotten an estimate of how long it'll be before she fully heals. Eventually she will regrow all her feathers, including where the wing used to be. She still has a little nub where her wing used to be.

This whole incident has made us realize how much she means to us. Yes, we love all of our animals unconditionally, We're animal people, they bring us the greatest pleasures. Daisy does tend to get on our nerves at time, she's a conure, and if you know anything about conures you know they're loud!

But...After this happened, I think the though that we could lose her, passed through all of us, and just really shook us. Yes, Daisy can get loud, yes, she can get annoying, but she brings so much happiness to the family as well. When she sits there chattering to herself, when she laughs along with us when something funny happens, when she helps us get rid of the hiccups, but making us laugh as she pretends she has the hiccups too, When you yell "DAISY" and she screams "WHAT?!" back at you. When she tells us or the other birds the shut up, right down to her silly faulty defense mechanism. 'OMG i'm in danger I'm going to BITE MY OWN LEG nom nom nom'. (I don't know why she does this, but its funny).

We love her, and we never want to give her up.

 

[Mack&Cass]

But...After this happened, I think the though that we could lose her, passed through all of us, and just really shook us. Yes, Daisy can get loud, yes, she can get annoying, but she brings so much happiness to the family as well. When she sits there chattering to herself, when she laughs along with us when something funny happens, when she helps us get rid of the hiccups, but making us laugh as she pretends she has the hiccups too, When you yell "DAISY" and she screams "WHAT?!" back at you. When she tells us or the other birds the shut up, right down to her silly faulty defense mechanism. 'OMG i'm in danger I'm going to BITE MY OWN LEG nom nom nom'. (I don't know why she does this, but its funny).

We love her, and we never want to give her up.

This almost made me cry. I'm glad to see she's doing well. She's absolutely beautiful, uni-wing and all

Cass

 

[Ariel]

This almost made me cry. I'm glad to see she's doing well. She's absolutely beautiful, uni-wing and all

Cass

Heh, I almost cried writing it.

Thanks, so are we. gotta say we were pretty worried about her, but, I think she's going to be ok.

She is, isn't she.

 

[Shell]

Aww she's a pretty girl, even all banged up post-surgery

Im happy so see your update, and that she's home with you. I wish all the best for her recovery.

 

[Ariel]

Thanks, theres still a long road ahead of us but I think she's going to be ok. I don't know if its because she's all drugged up, but she's become unusually sweet since what happened. Now if only we could get her to stop biting at her bandages!

This was cute. Right now we're not really letting her out much, and my parents don't want her out unless they're home (just while she recovered just in case something happens, I don't have a way to get her to the clinic) but we're letting all our other birds out still and our, gosh, I think he's 15? maybe older, male cockatiel, Zazu, his cage is on top of hers (has been for awhile) and they're pretty good buddies. He missed her while she was gone (and screamed...a lot because of it). Well I looked over and saw this...

He was wistling to her, it was really cute.

 

[Shell]

Awww, that's adorable, he missed his girlfriend

I don't know too much about birds, our clinic dealt with them only rarely. It's nice to see he wasn't weird with her after coming home from the clinic. Dogs and cats often are funny with their buddies after a vet stay as they smell like that horrible, scary place.

 

[Ariel]

Awww, that's adorable, he missed his girlfriend

I don't know too much about birds, our clinic dealt with them only rarely. It's nice to see he wasn't weird with her after coming home from the clinic. Dogs and cats often are funny with their buddies after a vet stay as they smell like that horrible, scary place.

haha, yeah. I honestly don't think a birds sense of smell is all that great. Besides I think he missed her to much, he threw a fit while she was gone.

 

[Shell]

Here's a stupid question for you.

I know alot of birds can live an insane length of time, but what is the average lifespan for a cockatiel? I was just curious since you mentioned he was 15 or so.

 

[Ariel]

Here's a stupid question for you.

I know alot of birds can live an insane length of time, but what is the average lifespan for a cockatiel? I was just curious since you mentioned he was 15 or so.

I think usually its between 15 and 25 but I've heard them nearing 30. One of my co-workers has a cockatiel that's at least 24 (probably older) and still looks and acts young. And its not a stupid question, cockatiels are on the smaller size, but live the lifespan of a medium sized bird, but theres also some contraversy of how long they live, some will say 10-15, others 15-30.

I can see where the contravery comes from because yes Zazu is 15, and I know of one thats at least 24, but I've also seen some die rather young comperatively. However because most people don't take the time to get a necropsy on birds because they're "Just a bird" to some people, they can't say HOW they died. We've lost two cockatiels at relatively young ages. I think one of the biggest problems is diet. 10% of birds (though this statistic may be specific to cockatiels and may have changed its been a while) can simply not tolerate pellets, there are also a lot of genetic disorders that just don't show.

We didn't find out until just recently, but Zazu's mate (who's since passed on) Piper had a genetic kidney disease, it likely would have gone unnoticed (and I'll explain why in a moment) except for the fact that she was one of those who could not eat pellets which worsened the affliction, and caused her to show symptoms before she passed away, at the very young age of 6.

Just recently her daughter, Scarlet, passed away completely unexpectedly at only 9 (Possibly 10). We did a necropsy on her and found she'd been in kidney failure and gout had surrounded her heart, she had shown no symptoms at all.

We'd thought the kidney issure had been strictly caused by the pellets, but since we stopped feeding those...We're fairly sure its a genetic thing now (and the doctor agrees.)

Unfortunately, my gorgeous boy, Spunky (Piper's and Zazu's son) is reaching 10, and being Piper's son I'm worried about him suffering the same affliction, I'm holding out hope that he's got his dads genetics more, though. Even if he is a brat, I want him to be around for a long time.

 

[Shell]

I think usually its between 15 and 25 but I've heard them nearing 30. One of my co-workers has a cockatiel that's at least 24 (probably older) and still looks and acts young. And its not a stupid question, cockatiels are on the smaller size, but live the lifespan of a medium sized bird, but theres also some contraversy of how long they live, some will say 10-15, others 15-30.

I can see where the contravery comes from because yes Zazu is 15, and I know of one thats at least 24, but I've also seen some die rather young comperatively. However because most people don't take the time to get a necropsy on birds because they're "Just a bird" to some people, they can't say HOW they died. We've lost two cockatiels at relatively young ages. I think one of the biggest problems is diet. 10% of birds (though this statistic may be specific to cockatiels and may have changed its been a while) can simply not tolerate pellets, there are also a lot of genetic disorders that just don't show.

We didn't find out until just recently, but Zazu's mate (who's since passed on) Piper had a genetic kidney disease, it likely would have gone unnoticed (and I'll explain why in a moment) except for the fact that she was one of those who could not eat pellets which worsened the affliction, and caused her to show symptoms before she passed away, at the very young age of 6.

Just recently her daughter, Scarlet, passed away completely unexpectedly at only 9 (Possibly 10). We did a necropsy on her and found she'd been in kidney failure and gout had surrounded her heart, she had shown no symptoms at all.

We'd thought the kidney issure had been strictly caused by the pellets, but since we stopped feeding those...We're fairly sure its a genetic thing now (and the doctor agrees.)

Unfortunately, my gorgeous boy, Spunky (Piper's and Zazu's son) is reaching 10, and being Piper's son I'm worried about him suffering the same affliction, I'm holding out hope that he's got his dads genetics more, though. Even if he is a brat, I want him to be around for a long time.

Wow, that's all really fascinating. Thank you for taking the time

I always assumed them to be shorter lived than that, but you're right. To many people having a bird die, is no different than a hamster or fish, you don't look into it, so it would be hard to know if old age was actually the cause.

 

[Ariel]

Wow, that's all really fascinating. Thank you for taking the time

I always assumed them to be shorter lived than that, but you're right. To many people having a bird die, is no different than a hamster or fish, you don't look into it, so it would be hard to know if old age was actually the cause.

I think there are a lot of bird species that live longer than people think. Personally I'd never had much luck with budgies, but most people I know only have them for 5 or so years, if that, but I knew someone that had one that lived to be 10.

 

[ThreeStarsLoki]

Poor Daisy Here's to a speedy recovery!

 

[Shell]

I think there are a lot of bird species that live longer than people think. Personally I'd never had much luck with budgies, but most people I know only have them for 5 or so years, if that, but I knew someone that had one that lived to be 10.

One of my closest friends had a budgie that was almost 10, yet her cockatiel lived to about 5.

I've only had one bird, a lovebird, that was evil (its because of her that I have never gotten another bird lol) and I was really young. She scared me to death so we gave her to a friend. She lived a long time from what I remember, but I dont know exactly how old she was when she passed.

 

[Ariel]

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