OK so puff weighed in yesterday at 308 grams and I was so happy. However, in closer inspection of that photo and looking at her I saw some feathers that she did her first step of damage to. I'll try to explain here, the first thing she does is bite the tip off so what is left is a v shape of the rest of the feather, then she will chew on that. Well if you look at the picture provided which is the one I posted the other day I noticed a few v shapes. This let me know I took the medication too low, so yesterday I went back to .03 ml and in that small increase I'm already noticing her show less interest in foods again. She's still eating and her morning weight was 295 grams. Ugghhh.
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...
Comments
Post a Comment