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Well, so far regarding relapses, it only happens if I give him nuts, peanut butter, or seeds. He'll pluck for about 3 days after getting a single almond as a treat for example. And the itching starts an hour after he's gotten something he's allergic to. Now that I'm figuring out what he's allergic t...

Hi AJPeter, thanks for the very kind words. Ricky's had a pretty good 5 years, when I got him he was on a diet that seemed to make his feathers dull and he had large chips and cracks in his beak from being picked on by other birds at the aviary. Within 8 months he learned his first words and has bee...

The sun is a seasonal thing with us, and I agree, it's good medicine for me too lol. From May to September I take him out almost daily, but now the high temperature is 40 degrees Farenheit, and it's gonna snow this afternoon, so we have to make do indoors until May. :( He got a tiny piece of my home...

Thanks guys, After two days of Ricky wanting to sleep all day and night, he has a little more energy today. It's also the first sunny day we've had in a week so I'm sure that brings his spirits up. He's running behind the computer monitor playing peek-a-boo and popping out from behind saying Here I ...

5 more days, and Ricky is doing okay I guess. He's eating about 90% of the Hi Energy Roudybush (which they changed the formula to soy meal) and 10% Rice Diet, had a bad three days of plucking and itchy behavior when he had a tiny bit of peanut butter, so that's another food off his list. (Thank good...

Thanks for that info Skyes_crew, wow that's scary stuff to read, there's some terrible diseases that can affect all living things. But it's good they recently discovered the virus responsible and can go after it. MissK, it's one heck of a coincedence, my grandfather for years tried to name Ricky &qu...

LOL, that'll do it!!

They don't seem too out of whack to me, it seems he just had something that was juicy or had high water content in it.

I'm thinking your right Skyes_crew, I went through his other 8 droppings in panic and found no undigested pellets in them. Perhaps the dropping in question might have fallen onto a pellet already at the bottom of the cage (There were a few other identical size pellets that had fallen near the droppi...

Update: Noticed a small yellow tinge to the urates in his droppings, most of the urates are bright white though and when I wiped one of his droppings off from the cage bottom I found a complete undigested Roudybush pellet inside. Needless to say, I'm pretty alarmed, as I thought the worst was over. ...

Thanks for that link InTheAir, yea bedtime for Ricky is tricky most nights. Last night was easy for a change, he was pooped. He seems to know when I come sit with him in the late evening that bedtime is soon, so he starts stuffing himself with his food just before bed, which seems to be around 10:00...

Update for the past few days, Day 10 to Day 13: There was a relapse in plucking and itching, this appears to have been caused by the bee pollen granules introduced into his diet one day. Once he started scratching I removed the bee pollen, and only used his two Roudybush pellets with dried veggies a...

Update for Day 8: Ricky now has the appetite of a small horse, he's inhaling his pellets and veggies as never before, The amount of food in his dish I usually put in would normally last him 3 days, now only lasted 6 hours before needing refilled. Starting to get his old personality back. Update for ...

Just an update. 7th day, first day of no antibiotics. Ricky is eating more, definately more stops to the food dish, avoiding the apple slice and only going for his pellets. He's also gone to the bathroom more times in 3 hrs than he was in a day while on the antibiotics. Also his droppings continue t...

Thanks InTheAir, Ricky usually gets a mixture of the RoudyBush California Blend, with the Rice pellets you mentioned. He's had those as part of his diet since I got him. Sometimes he just prefers one pellet over the other, he's been eating a lot of the Rice ones this week.

Hi sanjays mummi. I'll have to look into the globe grapes, thanks for the info. To be honest I believe your right. When we moved his cage that day for the renovations to the room that certainly sent him over the edge in stress levels. I think the stress might have weakened his immune system which al...

Thanks Skyes_crew, your assessment is similar to my own, which makes me feel better about my decision to stop the Metroldazol after 7 days. When I thought about the amount of Metroldazol the vet gave me, there's enough for at least the month, perhaps more, so I figured he did that to make sure all o...

Thanks for the great suggestions InTheAir. I think I'm going to take that advice if Ricky doesn't improve in the next few days. Today was "Eeh." Ricky ate a ton of pellets and one peanut butter ball filled with featherrific last evening, he was doing pretty good that day. But at night he s...

Thanks for that advice, I'm not used to going to the vet and how the interaction is supposed to go down. The Dr. told me he'd call me Monday by 2pm with the results of his stool, but never called. I called and inquired about the result Monday evening at 6pm only to get a rather curt "Don't call...

Just an update.

The Vet called and said that they found no parasites in Ricky's stool samples. I asked about keeping him on his medications and the assistant said that the Dr. didn't say anything about changing his prescription.

Thanks for the info and suggestions guys, I appreciate it. Yea, I didn't intend to stop the antibiotics after 3 days, I'm still giving it to him, but I thought that this medication was usually given for nor more than 7 to 10 days for birds from what I can find on the net. So I thought that as long a...

Hey guys, I used this forum over 5 years ago before deciding on getting an Indian Ringneck as a pet, and I've never regretted my choice. My little Ricky is an amazing bird going on over 5 years old now!! But about a month ago we had to replace all the window blinds in his room, and I had to move his...

They have feelings, and can fall into certain moods you'll notice. When my little buddy was in his biting moods, it lasted for a few months, then calmed down and never got to the same level of intensity it did for those few months. Hang in there, keep talking gently to her and giving attention, but ...

great to hear rritoch!!

It only gets better the more you and your family take time to interact with her.

I got my little Ricky when he was 4 months old, and he went through his assertive stage too. I never let him know that his beak was a weapon, or that he was something that intimidated me. There was one night were he was particularly agressive, and he ran and lunged at my fingers when I was putting i...

Mine's allowed everywhere too, he especially likes to be on my right shoulder, he's not allowed on my head though and he learned when he was 4 months old where he could and could not go. I've never been bitten by him ever except when we play, and he bites very gently, never a pinch. He's 4 years old...

Boy, this is sort of embarrasing for me to say, but here goes... My male IRN "Rickey" usually goes every 15 minutes, but if he eats something that has extra moisture in it, like an apple slice or even bananna, he'll tend to go a little more often, and it will be more messy. What I did was ...

Just an update guys,

We got the home humidity up to around 50%, and my little guy is starting to enjoy the daily mist sprays in his room. His feet look much better than the photos I had submitted last week. He's sitting on my shoulder drying off from a misting as I type this.

Thanks for the help guys, I'm going to see how he does with the aloe oil and Juice spray for a week, if he's still getting flakey white skin and irritated by it I will take him to our local avian vet. edit: took some photos of his feet to illustrate. http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n90/Invader_Zi...

I never thought of that, and the amount you get is huge! I'm working on getting higher humidity in his room too. might have to get a small humidifier.

Thanks for the tip I'll get some Aloe juice by Thursday and try it on him.

Hey Guys, My little buddy was fine when I brought him home in September, he was 4 months old, his feet were not flakey or anything, and looked healthy but after the weather has gotten colder and we have been using the furnace more to keep the house warm my little guy has gotten white flakey skin on ...

Thanks for the reply Melika, it's very helpful.

Hey guys, I've got a female IRN that's only 3 months old, but I wanted to get her started on a healthy diet early. I was looking at the Roudybush California blend diet, and I like the ingredients except the cabbage in it. The package claims the ingredients are dried peaches, apricots, plums, bell pe...