Exotic Patient of the Week
August 5, 2010 by J.C. Burcham, DVM
Filed under Featured Patients
Paco is a 20-year old Congo African Gray parrot. He can say all kinds of things and is very entertaining for us and the other birds when he boards with us! He routinely needs his nares (nostrils) cleaned out because he develops rhinoliths, which are hardened accumulations of… Read more
Hypocalcemia in an African Grey Parrot
December 8, 2009 by J.C. Burcham, DVM
Filed under Birds
Congo is a wild-caught African Grey Parrot, presumably about 25 years old, who came to us late on a Thursday night because he’d stopped eating. We sent him home after gavaging him (administering formula directly into crop with a tube) and drawing some blood. Due to the time of day, we couldn’t get… Read more
