This started months ago, I posted about it here. One day I came home and his voice was weird and he acted like something stuck in his throat.
I took him to a vet who took xrays and said she didn't see anything but if I wanted to be sure for another $100 she'd send them to someone who'd know. I didnt have any more money so left there with no answers or relief for Boyd, and no money to take him somewhere else.
When I could I took him to a board certified avian vet, she gets his xrays and says there's a mass in his upper chest and wants to first do exploratory surgery, but I don't see the point if it's a mass it's cancer/tumor and I'd euthanize him. Then she wants to do needle aspiration to see what it is. I'm curious too but this vet is incredibly expensive and I don't see that it helps Boyd any. I wanted to think about it. I asked to see the records from other vet and when I see them it's says "food bolus or other material in esophagus".
What the hell I'm thinking, he hadn't eaten anything and told them I saw him eating memory foam floor mat and worried it was stuck in his crop/ esophagus and they didn't say a word. neither did the new vet.
I didn't like that i had come to her saying the other place didnt see anything but i think something is in his esophagus , and say nothing even if it had been she didn't agree.
I asked why but didn't get an answer. I felt like I was in the twilight zone. I decided to not go back. I still hadn't seen the xrays because they sent me a dead link.
I took him to a third vet that I've had some experience with.
This one says he stumped. He gave me antibiotics for respiratory infection and panacur for gapeworm. I treated Boyd for gapeworm at the start of this,,tho I could have done it wrong. He has no symptoms of a respiratory infection.
The vet is odd, not that I'm so great but i say Boyd has petechia on his throat behind his wattles and it got really dark red and a small weird pouch looking thing poked out. Normal he says . really?
He saya he can't hear Boyd breathing abnormally. But he hasn't listened to his breathing, he's been talking to me. I say his feathers are really greasy vet says That isn't grease. Okay.... I don't know the technical term but he's not grooming himself .
the vet looked at xrays and saw nothing abnormal. He doesn't see any mass but the crop. He said looked at normal chicken xrays to compare and that's basically how he read them.
They sent me the xrays. I looked at information on how to read them, watching out for structure on top of structure etc. and used comparisons.
I think there Is something weird as hell looking , right by where Boyd has the broken blood vessels and the pouch came out.
I see the mass the 2nd doctor saw, and at first thought it was crop too but now not sure.
Does anyone have any input on all this ? If someone with knowledge can tell me if this thing I see in his throat is regular anatomy or what, .and same with mass in chest that would be so very very great. He's doing really bad, his beak is ragged the area under his chin is swollen his left leg trembles god I just Hate this. I told the latest vet the medications didn't improve his problem and he won't return my call. I don't know what to do. I feel so bad for Boyd i can't stand myself.
Thanks for reading, i was hurrying and apologize for any errors.
I took him to a vet who took xrays and said she didn't see anything but if I wanted to be sure for another $100 she'd send them to someone who'd know. I didnt have any more money so left there with no answers or relief for Boyd, and no money to take him somewhere else.
When I could I took him to a board certified avian vet, she gets his xrays and says there's a mass in his upper chest and wants to first do exploratory surgery, but I don't see the point if it's a mass it's cancer/tumor and I'd euthanize him. Then she wants to do needle aspiration to see what it is. I'm curious too but this vet is incredibly expensive and I don't see that it helps Boyd any. I wanted to think about it. I asked to see the records from other vet and when I see them it's says "food bolus or other material in esophagus".
What the hell I'm thinking, he hadn't eaten anything and told them I saw him eating memory foam floor mat and worried it was stuck in his crop/ esophagus and they didn't say a word. neither did the new vet.
I didn't like that i had come to her saying the other place didnt see anything but i think something is in his esophagus , and say nothing even if it had been she didn't agree.
I asked why but didn't get an answer. I felt like I was in the twilight zone. I decided to not go back. I still hadn't seen the xrays because they sent me a dead link.
I took him to a third vet that I've had some experience with.
This one says he stumped. He gave me antibiotics for respiratory infection and panacur for gapeworm. I treated Boyd for gapeworm at the start of this,,tho I could have done it wrong. He has no symptoms of a respiratory infection.
The vet is odd, not that I'm so great but i say Boyd has petechia on his throat behind his wattles and it got really dark red and a small weird pouch looking thing poked out. Normal he says . really?
He saya he can't hear Boyd breathing abnormally. But he hasn't listened to his breathing, he's been talking to me. I say his feathers are really greasy vet says That isn't grease. Okay.... I don't know the technical term but he's not grooming himself .
the vet looked at xrays and saw nothing abnormal. He doesn't see any mass but the crop. He said looked at normal chicken xrays to compare and that's basically how he read them.
They sent me the xrays. I looked at information on how to read them, watching out for structure on top of structure etc. and used comparisons.
I think there Is something weird as hell looking , right by where Boyd has the broken blood vessels and the pouch came out.
I see the mass the 2nd doctor saw, and at first thought it was crop too but now not sure.
Does anyone have any input on all this ? If someone with knowledge can tell me if this thing I see in his throat is regular anatomy or what, .and same with mass in chest that would be so very very great. He's doing really bad, his beak is ragged the area under his chin is swollen his left leg trembles god I just Hate this. I told the latest vet the medications didn't improve his problem and he won't return my call. I don't know what to do. I feel so bad for Boyd i can't stand myself.
Thanks for reading, i was hurrying and apologize for any errors.
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