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| Question about Pets:Need help with my Amazon 2 questions... I have a very playful loving Amazon but the talons are needle? |
Hello in Honduras!
To answer your first question YES you can trim your birds talons this is a very prescise thing to do so make sure you have sharp clippers, if you can I would highly suggest the grip style clippers. You need to have someone help you with this, as the act of trimming talons is a stressful one for your amazon. I like to wrap mine in a soft cloth that will completely cover the wings (think swaddling but no terry cloth as the birds nails can snag) and have someone hold it from behind so that your bird will only see you. You need to make sure they hold the bird firmly but not too much to hurt it. Hold each little claw in your hand and only cut up top where the curve of the nail begins. Have a septic pencil or powder ready just in case you clip to high THIS IS NOT SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN but if you get nervous and the bird moves it can happen so in case if hitting a vein then you will be ready to stop the bleeding. Continue until you are finished and be sure to hold and reassure your bird that you love it and treat it with its favorite treat a mango perhaps and you will both be okay. As a preventative measure in the future try to have a special perch that has the rough almost sand paper type coating (made for bird perches) perches that will allow the nails to be filed down eat time he is on it. This should keep them dull. A wider varity of multiple level perches is ideal for your bird and will give it the natural dulling effect too.
#2 I am first going to suggest that you try changing the birds water dish. If it is too large they will asume it to be a bath area and will not drink from it, if it is too small then they might not attempt to drink from it. Make sure you continue to provide you bird with all of the fruit and veggies that you mentioned, and you are correct they do get alot of water from their diet. Make sure that you pay close attention to the parrots eyes, if the area around the eye appears to be sunken in and or if you can see the protrusion of the clavacal bone under the parrots beak (neck area) then these are sign of severe dehydration. To be on the safe side I would suggest you add some elctrolytes to the birds water atleast a few times a week. Try pedialyte equal parts to water conversion.
#3 You mention that you do not have a local avain vet. That is ashame but not unheard of, however a well qualified Veternarian that is familar with any avain species will be much better to have on call than no one. If you love your bird as I think you do, call around your area and see if a Vet near you would be willing to treat your bird. Then take it in for a complete check up and find out if tehy have any further suggestions that I failed to mention.
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