We'll her weight is down a bit more, 213 grams. So I'm making her favorites today in order to encourage eating and dropped her dose by .01 ml hoping to keep the feathers in tact but not have her have these side effects. Like the sleepiness and not eating, she already has shown improvement as she is not choosing to nap at all today, however she is only nibbling on a few food items and not showing much interest. I will continue to keep close tabs on her weight and keep encouraging to foods.
It has been a while since my last post and even longer since this all started and I only have positivity to share. Puff is getting .02 ml of meds every morning, and only in the morning. So she gets one dose only, every morning with her breakfast, no evening dose and she is doing so amazing. The reason I chose to try cutting out the evening dose was because she was falling from her sleeping perch during the night, and most nights. Because I'm a very light sleeper I would hear her flap and get up to find her on the bottom of her cage looking stunned and a bit dazed. After moving her into my room to sleep so I could better observe, the conclusion I came to was the med was puting her into a very deep sleep and she lost balance control and/or fell as she was relaxing so much into a deep sleep. After stopping the evening dose I was no longer having this issue and she continued to leave all of her feathers in tact. One other thing I decided to do is every other Sunday she gets a med fre...
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