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Daisy is still alive, 2 lbs 13 oz up from 2 lbs 10 oz. The tubing has been educational. I found out that any device that enters the body requires a perscription, so i could not get a catheter or an OG tube, i had to fasion one from some medical tubing i had it is smooth on the tip and rigid enough to insert, works great. I have some more tubing if someone needs one let me know! The hardest part is getting food that will flow through the tube. Other sources say to blend up pellets or meal worms ect. This works but the fluid has to be so runny you cant get much nutrition in a 60 ml feeding its mostly water. I know the baby parrot food would have worked but going to the pet store is problematic with the pandemic. Long story short i now have the feed the right consistencey, and i get about 50 ml of powdered feed in a 60ml feeding. Hoping to start gaining weight now. Still on the B complex and E but she does not stand, so i cant tell if its working or not. Yesterday around mid day she was drinking and eating cut dandelion and parrot pellets which float. She did not flop on her back last night but im not sure if thats because she is getting better or the duck containment system i have developed is working. (see picture)

I am trying to puzzle through what her issue is and this is what im thinking. If it were DVE or something like that it would likely have run its course by now and she would be dead. Her symptoms fit Thymine deficiency to a T they are:

Loss of appetite
sluggishness
emaciation
head tremors
convulsions
head retracted over back


The only symptom she has that does not fit is her panting (rythmicly open and shut bill about once a second) Along with the fact that b complex did that resolve the issue right away. This makes me think it might be E defficency which is slower to respond without selenium (which can be toxic)

Other deficiencies that are a close match but not quite are b6,b12 and E, she is getting all that daily from the b complex or the E pill
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Ratchnick said:
Daisy is still alive, 2 lbs 13 oz up from 2 lbs 10 oz. The tubing has been educational. I found out that any device that enters the body requires a perscription, so i could not get a catheter or an OG tube, i had to fasion one from some medical tubing i had it is smooth on the tip and rigid enough to insert, works great. I have some more tubing if someone needs one let me know! The hardest part is getting food that will flow through the tube. Other sources say to blend up pellets or meal worms ect. This works but the fluid has to be so runny you cant get much nutrition in a 60 ml feeding its mostly water. I know the baby parrot food would have worked but going to the pet store is problematic with the pandemic. Long story short i now have the feed the right consistencey, and i get about 50 ml of powdered feed in a 60ml feeding. Hoping to start gaining weight now. Still on the B complex and E but she does not stand, so i cant tell if its working or not. Yesterday around mid day she was drinking and eating cut dandelion and parrot pellets which float. She did not flop on her back last night but im not sure if thats because she is getting better or the duck containment system i have developed is working. (see picture)

I am trying to puzzle through what her issue is and this is what im thinking. If it were DVE or something like that it would likely have run its course by now and she would be dead. Her symptoms fit Thymine deficiency to a T they are:

Loss of appetite
sluggishness
emaciation
head tremors
convulsions
head retracted over back


The only symptom she has that does not fit is her panting (rythmicly open and shut bill about once a second) Along with the fact that b complex did that resolve the issue right away. This makes me think it might be E defficency which is slower to respond without selenium (which can be toxic)

Other deficiencies that are a close match but not quite are b6,b12 and E, she is getting all that daily from the b complex or the E pillView attachment 2140141View attachment 2140142
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great tubing! You can order red rubber catheters online from medical sites without a perscription but yours looks awesome plus you can see through it!
 
Ratchnick said:
Daisy is still alive, 2 lbs 13 oz up from 2 lbs 10 oz. The tubing has been educational. I found out that any device that enters the body requires a perscription, so i could not get a catheter or an OG tube, i had to fasion one from some medical tubing i had it is smooth on the tip and rigid enough to insert, works great. I have some more tubing if someone needs one let me know! The hardest part is getting food that will flow through the tube. Other sources say to blend up pellets or meal worms ect. This works but the fluid has to be so runny you cant get much nutrition in a 60 ml feeding its mostly water. I know the baby parrot food would have worked but going to the pet store is problematic with the pandemic. Long story short i now have the feed the right consistencey, and i get about 50 ml of powdered feed in a 60ml feeding. Hoping to start gaining weight now. Still on the B complex and E but she does not stand, so i cant tell if its working or not. Yesterday around mid day she was drinking and eating cut dandelion and parrot pellets which float. She did not flop on her back last night but im not sure if thats because she is getting better or the duck containment system i have developed is working. (see picture)

I am trying to puzzle through what her issue is and this is what im thinking. If it were DVE or something like that it would likely have run its course by now and she would be dead. Her symptoms fit Thymine deficiency to a T they are:

Loss of appetite
sluggishness
emaciation
head tremors
convulsions
head retracted over back


The only symptom she has that does not fit is her panting (rythmicly open and shut bill about once a second) Along with the fact that b complex did that resolve the issue right away. This makes me think it might be E defficency which is slower to respond without selenium (which can be toxic)

Other deficiencies that are a close match but not quite are b6,b12 and E, she is getting all that daily from the b complex or the E pillView attachment 2140141View attachment 2140142
Click to expand...

DVH in a duck her age would be less severe than ones under four weeks of age.
 
Green and thin, but that's probably from the greens and high water diet i figure. They were normal before the tube feeding and dandelion
 
I would continue to offer supportive care, you seem to be doing a great job with her, since she isn't responding well to the vitamins it makes be think she ingested something toxic or this is an infectious virus. We have been seeing an abnormal influx of people reporting seizures with their bird.
 

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