{"id":5968,"date":"2017-06-26T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:48:47","slug":"will-controlling-hormones-stop-blue-front-amazon-regurgitating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=5968","title":{"rendered":"Do Hormones Control This Amazons Seasonal Regurgitation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Mitch, Catherine, and associates,<\/span><\/p>\n

First thank you for the opportunity to contact you about my parrot, who’s a BF Amazon, named “Dollar.” I wish to add, I adopted him at 6 yrs old, and he wouldn’t let me call him any other name than what it had been.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, he’s a fabulously happy birdie, but several years in a row around this time of year, he begins to regurgitate and swallow, over and over again. He holds the top of a bell and raises and lowers his head like an oil well, only really fast.
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He’ll pause and you can see there’s part of his hoard coming down inside his beak, and he’ll swallow it before he proceeds again and again. I’ve had him to two avian vets over the years and had a blood panel done, and everything checks out fine, except last year he showed low in calcium, but I changed that up by using veggies with super high Vit A content in every fresh meal he eats, usually twice daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kale is our staple, and I chop it so fine that he can’t NOT eat it. His plumage has become more vibrant than ever. But even more notable is that gone are the minor seizures he’d have periodically.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The only cause of those according to my preferred vet as he had shown me in a book he had, was that Amazons, possibly Blue and Front – can’t remember–are prone to have idiopathic seizures<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He prescribed sodium pentathol, and since I couldn’t get him to take it, and the veggies I fed him seemed to be what stopped his seizures, I reported such to my vet, and I felt he was possibly cured of whatever imbalance I corrected within him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year tho, he regurgitates for quite a few months; but I just saw him have a brief seizure while having been ringing his bell up & down, up & down. It even seems like him doing that motion brings on the seizures sometimes; whereas during the periods of time when he never regurgitates, he never seizes.<\/span><\/p>\n