Thank you so much for the fast reply! It's such a relief to hear that her recent behaviour at night is normal enough.
I don't think it was crop adjusting, though. She didn't stretch out her neck like they usually do when they adjust their crop (as far as I'm aware). It was basically just a big sneeze and then her fluffed up on my chest looking me right in the eye and staying completely still while slowly and quietly opening her beak. I guess she could have had some dander or fluff caught in her throat.
So should I not be worried that she only sneezes a lot at night? I'm still thinking it could be because she wants to hide any possible symptoms until she's less vulnerable, because she never sneezes that much or makes those funny gargling noises before sneezing during the day.
As for probiotics, we weren't really given anything like that. We were basically told to keep putting a little bit of apple cider vinegar in her water for a couple of weeks to ensure the crop infection doesn't resurface. When we went back, we got an older and more experienced avian vet who was even able to look down her crop and throat and told us there was nothing wrong there. He also said it's highly unlikely that it could be something intestinal, so maybe I'm just being a worrywart because of my past bad experience with poor Tinsel
I think my main concern is that we initially did a very poor job of feeding her the medicine all those weeks ago so she could have inhaled it. The vet didn't really tell us that there was a special way to do it, so we basically held poor Bella in a lying-down position to stop her from struggling and forced the syringe into her mouth. Afterwards, we would hear a funny zipping noise coming from inside her until she readjusted. If she were to get aspiration sickness from that experience, would it be more obvious by now? It's been a couple of months now.
Sorry for bombarding you with all these questions since I know you're not a vet, but I'm just feeling so worried
earl:
I don't think it was crop adjusting, though. She didn't stretch out her neck like they usually do when they adjust their crop (as far as I'm aware). It was basically just a big sneeze and then her fluffed up on my chest looking me right in the eye and staying completely still while slowly and quietly opening her beak. I guess she could have had some dander or fluff caught in her throat.
So should I not be worried that she only sneezes a lot at night? I'm still thinking it could be because she wants to hide any possible symptoms until she's less vulnerable, because she never sneezes that much or makes those funny gargling noises before sneezing during the day.
As for probiotics, we weren't really given anything like that. We were basically told to keep putting a little bit of apple cider vinegar in her water for a couple of weeks to ensure the crop infection doesn't resurface. When we went back, we got an older and more experienced avian vet who was even able to look down her crop and throat and told us there was nothing wrong there. He also said it's highly unlikely that it could be something intestinal, so maybe I'm just being a worrywart because of my past bad experience with poor Tinsel
I think my main concern is that we initially did a very poor job of feeding her the medicine all those weeks ago so she could have inhaled it. The vet didn't really tell us that there was a special way to do it, so we basically held poor Bella in a lying-down position to stop her from struggling and forced the syringe into her mouth. Afterwards, we would hear a funny zipping noise coming from inside her until she readjusted. If she were to get aspiration sickness from that experience, would it be more obvious by now? It's been a couple of months now.
Sorry for bombarding you with all these questions since I know you're not a vet, but I'm just feeling so worried
earl:
