[Shelly]

Back in May of 2004, we had quite a scare with River, one of our Quaker Parrots. He was about 7 years old at the time. Looking back, his beak was slightly overgrown for a while leading up to this crisis, but apparently not enough that I thought it might be a problem. Another thing I observed is that he would sometimes have what appeared to be a bruise on his beak, and he would also have sores on his feet from time to time. I found out later that these are classic symptoms of liver disease.


I think one of the reasons I wasn't concerned is that I've had River since he was 3 months old or so and had always fed him a good diet of pellets along with a small amount of fruits and veggies. In fact, for the 3 or 4 years prior, I had been feeding my birds low-fat pellets. Most if not all of the birds with liver disease that I had heard of had been on seed diets. So unfortunately, I just never put these symptoms together.





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