Rechecks

Sydney, the severe macaw, and Peeps, the yellow-naped amazon, both went for their vet rechecks today.  Both were from the woman hoarder who died up in Vilas County.  Good news on both of them!!!  Sydney's preen gland was full of hard material and actually had to be lanced last week to get all of the material out.  She's been on oral antibiotics plus we had to put SSD cream on the gland to keep it moistened for the past week.  Her preen gland looks normal and did not fill up with fluid at all.  We'll do one more recheck next week and, if all is well, she'll go up for adoption at that time.  Peeps is very obese at over 600 grams, and had slight liver abnormalities on her bloodwork.  So, to be on the safe side, we did radiographs to make sure she didn't have any physical changes or masses on her liver.  She doesn't - liver is normal size and we didn't see any tumors.  So, for the time being, a change in diet, some antibiotics and milk thistle is our choice of treatment and we'll recheck in a month, if she's still here.  She is a sweet bird so we're all hoping she's in a new home in a month and the new owners can take her in for a recheck.