Image 1 — Cockatiel with infection, plaques & crop stasis. Seeking advice on treatment.
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Cockatiel with infection, plaques & crop stasis. Seeking advice on treatment.

Hello, my grey cockatiel is sick now from one week.

Past history:

He already had a swelling in his left side of leg from the past three years. But it did not affect his daily life.

I had adopted him while he already had the swelling from a friend who couldn't take him where he was moving.

He informed me that the bird was once in the past injured by a ceiling fan on wings but he treated him with betadine and sometimes later developed swelling in leg side but no problem with the bird flying. He also has less feathers on his crop area.

Now from 2 years while staying with me, He comes out of the cage for 1 hour everyday and flies twice or thrice.

Now,

His tongue has developed white patch and upper beak has thick plaque deposited.

The corners of the mouth opening has the white residue like wet thing.

The poop is bright lime green stringy and sticky.

I guess there is crop stasis thing also. But he also eats a little.

He is also slightly tail bobbing.

Eating less. Drinking even lesser.

Earlier weighed 140 gms on dec-25.

Now weighs 125 gms.

There is only a general vet available here who helped me contact a guy who knows about birds. I went there but the person did not do physical examination of the bird. Now he is also not available for long and not taking calls.

He prescribed merquine (enrofloxacin) and flucazonale and liv 52 for 5 days. Micogel micozonale cream on beak corners if he rubs his beak. And multivitamin and set gut powder after 5 days.

But there is no plaque improvement after completing 5 days.

This medication is given in water bowl which he drinks only once after given.

he refuses to take medicine directly.

He is an untamed bird who only sits on hand when he wants.

I want advice on:

Is this the right treatment?

I think it is trichomoniasis galliae. But I'm also confused that it might be aspergillosis.

(No lab tests for birds are available here. I hardly managed to get a prescription.)

Kindly help me to diagnose from the symptoms.

Also help medication for crop stasis situation.

He won't let him touch him. He gets so much stressed.

Also advice from how to recover liver and kidney after antibiotics and antifungal treatments. Nutrition & diet & medication.

Please help save my birdie who gives me hope to live another day!

u/grey_teil — 4 days ago