Well it's day 5 and she is still not eating very well at all, her weight is down to 305 grams and I'm not sure what to do. I give her some of Calypsos hand formula each day and even that she's not eating much of. She's only eating two of her normal 4-5 cashews per day and no veggie or grain chop and no fruit. She still hasn't chewed her her feathers though and us choosing to just hang out in her cage today.
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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