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Flew the Coop Aviary's Pied Senegal

Pied Senegal Parrot

Not the best shot as his eyes are half-closed but Bantu is back in his cage, happily shredding his Pinata and wolfing down his vegetable-cornmeal mashes. You can see that he is still missing a lot of breast feathers but I noticed the other day that there is a sudden growth-spurt of new downy feathers. It looks ike the 6-week treatment of antibiotics has done a lot of good. He’s eating well, and is more co-ordinated. Despite all the tests and x-rays , it’s unlikely we’ll ever know for certain what exactly is wrong with him, but the general thought is that his liver or pancreas is not up to par. However, he is still calling to all his other bird-buddies in the bird-room and enjoys his daily head-rubs from both myself and my husband. Plus his cage is jam-packed with millet-spray for a nice high-calorie snack between soft-food meals. SO, what the heck, he’ll never be a breeder, but he’s got a real nice life now (even gets tours around the yard with visits to the horses and cows and everything! ).

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