Injured baby Musk Parrot (Help)

[Menagerie]

My other half Andy was in a park here in Adelaide (He works for a council) and some people brought a baby Musk Parrot over to him, it fell out of its nest in a park tree the tree was too high for it to be returned, and they told him there were Rainbows picking on it.

So he rang me to come and get it. It's a dear little thing.
When I got it home I found it had in injury on it's left thigh quite nasty. I have washed it with a weak solution of salt and water and put aloe Vera on it. (Advice from our local bird shop). It was very bloody when I washed it.

It ate well yesterday about three teaspoons of nectar mix twice.
It has eaten two teaspoons this morning and is looking very sore. Does any one know if there is anything else I can put on it? and how well can I clean it? because it is so sore .
We were told to feed it three times a day is this enough?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Deb

[avinet]

washing the wound with warm salty water is good, and as a antibacterial treatment use Betadine iodine liquid from the chemist. It is a very good antibacterial - the best before prescription antibiotics. Just how bad is the wound and exactly where is it? If it is a bad open wound it may need stitches to close it up. Unfortunately it is a weekend but is there a 7-day vet in your area that treats wildlife? Such vets that can treat native wildlife will normally do that for free.

How much and how often to feed it depend son the age. How well feathered is it? I it is reasonably well feathered on the body then 3 times a day is probably OK but 4 feeds initially won't do any harm. It won't need feeding overnight. I would expect 3 or 4 teaspoons (depend son the teaspoon size obviously), about 10 to 15 mls possibly.

Nector wet mix is OK - mixed to a thin custard consistency. Also if it is reasonably well feathered then have it in a cage, with a perch fairly low initially, and have dry lorikeet powder in the cage (from your pet shop) as well as water. You can also leave a dish of any of the wet mix that is left over from the feeding - it will soon learn that it can eat this by itself, and also eat the dry powder. Once it is eating a bit by itself you can also give it a bit of fruit, and flowers from grevillea for the natural nector.

The main thing to check with a young Lorikeet picked up in the wild is that they don't have a viral disease called Psittacine Beak & Feather Disease (PBFD). Baby lorikeets rarely fall out of a nest hollow for no reason. If it appears fully feathered, but has no flight feathers and tail feathers, or it has some flight feathers but they are falling out easily, then it will likely have PBFD. They catch the virus either form their parents who may be carriers, or from another bird that was in the nest beforehand.

The main symptom in a baby lorikeet is the wing flight feathers falling out before they take their first flight to leave the nest hollow. Because they can't fly they fall to the ground where they are prey to crows, cats etc. So have a good look at the wing feathers, and the tail - put some photos up here if possible and we can check it out, a photo with the wings pulled out and also one showing the tail is most helpful.

cheers,

Mike

[Menagerie]

Thanks I didn't know about PBFD Mike,

It just looks very raw? into the muscle on the thigh....

I gave it a bedadine and salt water bath sat it in it this arvo a lot of dirt and yuk came off. (I'm only used to horses and dogs and horses they have pores like we do and dogs don't) had to do something bedadine can be used on both glad it was ok no one had replied when I checked at 5 pm.

Feathers look ok, weight very good I can bearly feel it's breast bone (general heath very very good not one loose feather at all) flight feathers about 1 cm to 1.5 cm.
I have a Rainbow lorikeet (pain in the butt) good food on demand for the little one. She laid two eggs last week and is clucky under her paper ( unless she is in her outside cage) would this sound be soothing to it?
I don't want her to catch anything from it thanks for the warning. It is in a box on a white pillow case undrneath is a polafleese blanket for something soft instead of the hard cardboard box.
No lice or anything coming off this bird. Facecs normal maybe could be a little wetter.

We fed it first thing thing this morning didn't eat much about two (medium size) teaspoons, had a sleep and at 11.30am was sitting looking up from its cardboard box.
So we fed it again had three teaspoons and then preened itself ( good sign) and it slept till 5.30pm.

Had four teaspoons at 5.45pm and two teaspoons of boiled water. I sat it in the salt and bedadine bath because its leg is very sore to touch not being used to being handled I didn't want to stress it too much.

It slept on Andy covered for 45 mins out side his warmth helped to dry it. There are plenty of normal bird noises in our area it just snuggled and was very comfy.
It's foot is curled up at the moment and tomorrow I am going to try and put my pinkie in it hopefully it will stimulate the nerve a little. I will try and take some photo's tomorrow.

Thanks for your help Mike.

Regards Deb and Andy.