Post by winstonsmom on Nov 8, 2009 12:16:04 GMT -5
I recently adopted a pair of six-year-old Lutino tiels (their "Mom" was ill and couldn't care for them any longer. I could not get her name to contact her about their diet, habits, toys, etc.) who were exceptionally healthy and I so want to keep them that way. I got one of the mixtures and prepared two weeks worth and froze it in ice cube trays the way I was told. They will have nothing to do with it or with veggies or fruits at all. I have tried multiple times to get them to eat what I do, but they will take a couple of pecks at lettuce and spinach and some breads and nothing else except macaroni products (bare).
They were crazy about their pellets and ate them all day. Then one day I was in the bird shop and the part-time clerk told me to put a millet branch in the cage and let them treat on that as they want to. That was the beginning of the trouble! They waited for the millet and hardly touched their pellets; so now I give them the millet only late in the day.
I began to notice that the female would take a pellet and immediately, seemingly, soothed her tongue on something -- a cage bar or a toy.
I looked at her tongue and there seemed to be a sore on the side. So I separated her from her mate and gave her seed and macaroni to give the sore a chance to heal. It did, but her whole tongue looks weird and she still soothes after every pellet. She seems to feel well otherwise, except that she appears to be bothered by her tongue while at rest.
Is this something that will just take time to heal? Is it an injury or an illness? I would like to know what I am dealing with before I take her to the vet, so I will be able to converse intelligently with him.
Thanks for any information any or all may give.
They were crazy about their pellets and ate them all day. Then one day I was in the bird shop and the part-time clerk told me to put a millet branch in the cage and let them treat on that as they want to. That was the beginning of the trouble! They waited for the millet and hardly touched their pellets; so now I give them the millet only late in the day.
I began to notice that the female would take a pellet and immediately, seemingly, soothed her tongue on something -- a cage bar or a toy.
I looked at her tongue and there seemed to be a sore on the side. So I separated her from her mate and gave her seed and macaroni to give the sore a chance to heal. It did, but her whole tongue looks weird and she still soothes after every pellet. She seems to feel well otherwise, except that she appears to be bothered by her tongue while at rest.
Is this something that will just take time to heal? Is it an injury or an illness? I would like to know what I am dealing with before I take her to the vet, so I will be able to converse intelligently with him.
Thanks for any information any or all may give.
