Yesterday she weighed in at 305 and today it's 308, I'm ready to say we are on the up swing and she has finally stabilized out at the .05 ml of the 2:1 mixture of distilled water to medication. So now we wait to watch the feather growth and how that goes. She's still being fed the formula and I will continue until she reaches at least 320 grams, then slowly taper her off and add other foods, as I can see her eat other things. As of now she isn't showing interest in other foods, she does eat a few of her favorite cashews but nothing else.
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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