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Thank you, Binki! Toby is gaining back his weight at the same rate that he lost it, about 2g/day. He felt well enough to take a dust bath yesterday :)

Hi Tony, yes I do occasionally give them grit but do not deworm them as they are indoor birds kept on aspen bedding. I've never found evidence of parasites in my budgies or quail.

He's been steadily pooping, eating and drinking his own food all this afternoon, so I think I'm going to skip the crop feeding tonight, just give him his amoxicillin, and see how he looks when I weigh him in the morning. I am sooooo happy right now!

UPDATE Toby did the biggest poop of his little life sometime during the night. There was a giant turd surrounded by several normal-large ones in the bottom of his cage this morning. He was SO THIRSTY when I went to give him his amoxicillin and crop feed him--he drank the medicine straight from...

I took him to the vet this morning because I couldn't get the cath past a certain spot in his throat and kept stressing him out. The tech topped off his crop for me and showed me her technique, and said the doc wants me to feed him 4x/day to try and offset Toby's extreme weight loss. My poor...

Thanks, guys. Once I got her diagnosis I knew my time with her would be limited, I'm just grateful that I had so many months to spend with her. I wish she could have passed on her own at home but that would have entailed too much suffering on her part by wasting away to nothing and I couldn't...

Feeding him won't cause a backup, and cause gut rot, will it? I checked his cage this morning and he didn't pass any more fecal matter: only urates.

Belated update: I had to have Bee put to sleep at the end of August. She was losing weight and either gasping for air (causing her to panic) or huddled in a ball by the heat lamp. It was so hard to do, but she's at peace now. The Dr gave her an anesthetic before the euthanasia, and she slipped...

I have a year old male, Toby, who has always been in good health. Last weekend he started showing signs of lethargy so I put him aside near a heat lamp with some vitamin-enriched water (soluvite-D) and feed. He started to eat less and less. His poops started turning into 100% urates. His weight...

If she's dropping weight and having trouble walking, it is possible that she has an internal tumor putting pressure on her sciatic nerve. The ovaries are a common culprit for tumors in quail hens :( One typically doesn't start seeing tumors and such until hens are ~4 years old. Fingers crossed...

That sounds pretty awesome! But I have no idea how I would source it :( Bee is still holding on. I think it's a cyst, not a tumor. I could find another avian vet and get a second opinion, but she would have to undergo another ultrasound to have it aspirated (if it's even possible) and it could...

Update: My Bee is still with me (amazingly!) but her gasping is making her weaker and she's lost several grams of weight. she's been hovering around 42g for the past month. Some days are worse than others, and some days she acts like she is (nearly) fine. She spends time next to a ceramic heat...

Perhaps she has a VitD deficiency or has an infection in her reproductive system that is causing her to lay unformed eggs.

I still haven't received the images of her radiography (kinda peeved about that--I'll have to call them on Monday). Bee is just over 4 years old. I'm unsure if the anesthesia and ultrasound aggravated something, but the toes of her left foot no longer spread out and she walks on the top of the...

Bad news: The ultrasound revealed that she has a mass growing in her chest cavity, not fluid. The only thing I can do is keep her comfortable until she's ready to go.

Bad news: The ultrasound revealed that she has a mass growing in her chest cavity, not fluid. The only thing I can do is keep her comfortable until she's ready to go.

Hi there DK. Bee definitely gets enough protein: she's on the 30% growth and plumage gamebird feed, plus gets dried insects like mealworms and brine shrimp on a regular basis. She also loves boiled egg. Unfortunately the vet said that she's far too small to extract the amount of blood necessary...