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Post by silvercloud on Feb 13, 2007 22:05:53 GMT 10
This is the story of Manau, a rescued sulphur crested cockatoo who battled but unfortunately lost her fight with PBFD. www.manauspbfdiseasesite.com/ |
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Post by robert on May 31, 2007 17:45:49 GMT 10
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Post by robert on May 27, 2009 13:46:58 GMT 10
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Post by robert on Sept 12, 2009 12:27:19 GMT 10
Links on PBFD found here
from Robert and Precious
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Post by vankarhi on Dec 29, 2011 13:24:27 GMT 10
This is the story of Manau, a rescued sulphur crested cockatoo who battled but unfortunately lost her fight with PBFD. www.manauspbfdiseasesite.com/OMG...........I just saw the pic of the pins coming through on the side of Manau...........another sign of the wildlife resued bird I had in my possession for a week until yesterday.........I took him back as soon as I saw the pics of Manau yesterday in my desperate quest to see if the bird I had taken in had the signs of PBFD. |
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Post by vankarhi on Dec 29, 2011 13:44:26 GMT 10
OK..........since moving out here to the quiet country life (not so quiet really lol)........I have got to know a few wildlife carers and one thing led to another and I ended up in my possession last Thursday (8 days ago) a lovely big and friendly Sulfer Crested Cockatoo. He was and is sooooo friendly and it appeared he was a baby since he was begging for food. I went to the vet he was originally handed in to and asked about the bird...........apart from being told I was not legally allowed to have him, and then he said "that one has beak and feather disease" and I almost fainted and said "what the young one with the broken wing" and he said "oh no not that one he is ok"
So I went to the carers on my way home and they said "yes I could have him and they would get an afidavit signed by a JP to state that". So I took him home........thinking I now had a lovely young cuddly slightly dirty cockatoo.
I immediately sprayed him lice, and wormed him (along with all my other birds and poultry too) over a 3 day period. He weighed 640g when I bought him home and weighed around 660 grams when I sent him back. I also immediately did a blood and faecal test and sent it away on the Friday morning (PBFD was in the back of mind but so were some other diseases I wanted to be sure he didn't have). I started giving him showers 2x daily outside under the hose........the dirt didn't seem to be coming off.
I found myself sitting at the computer quite alot for the next 6 days..........trying to find pictures of young cockatoos with PBFD..........I could only find really severe cases of birds with the disease and I by now suspected this fellow was in the reasonably early stages.
He had a shiny black beak, his feathers were very dirty looking, and I could not see any powder dust on him.
I was trying to convince myself by now that this bird must be a baby...........his beak was black, he was begging for food, I read somewhere that really young babies have a greyish look about them ........ "like baby galah's" I told my husband (trying to convince myself this bird was not suffering from PBFD). I found some pins on his back/side of his body under his wings........."look he must be a baby" I told hubby "he is not fully feathered"...........but still I was not convincing myself.
Then yesterday I found the Manau story site............and found a picture of Manau with the dirty looking feathers look...........and realised I now have in my possession a bird that most probably is affected by PBFD.
Now I have also read that some birds do manage to shed the disease and become PBFD free..........some even grow back all normal feathers and appear to be totally normal...........but many do not and I have a pet eclectus and a pet alexandrine and a pet cockatiel and I was so paranoid by now that I had bought this disease into my home.................
So I took him back to the carer and told her my fears and also suggested she get onto the Manau story site just for her own interest. She was more than happy to take him back and I am hoping he can live his life out on the property she lives on...........she did say however if he has PBFD that it changes everything for her too...........I suspect if when I get the results back and they are positive, she will look for a carer who will take an infected bird on.
It is such a shame..............but I could never forgive myself if my birds got the disease through my own fault.
If this was my one and only pet bird and I had had him for a time and had grown to love him as part of this family...........I am sure I would have kept him and tried to make his life comfortable for the time he has left..............but it wasn't that way and I am only so glad that I did not have the bird inside as I had kept him on my front verandah in quarantine and handling him after I had handled and cleaned and fed my other birds and then washing myself after handling him.
I just wanted to share this...........for others who might end up doing something similar.
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Post by avinet on Dec 29, 2011 21:26:17 GMT 10
PBFD is very rarely caught by older healthy birds. It is primarily a disease that young nestling with a poorly developed immune system are likely to catch. Your own birds, being mature, healthy and with a well developed immune system are very, very unlikely to have caught anything. Also cockatiels have a quite different strain of PBFD and don't appear to catch the strain that lorikeets and cockatoos have. If you had been hand raising baby Alexes or Eclectus then there may have been a problem.
In general a dirty cockatoo with a shiny black beak will have PBFD. And if you run your fingers through the feathers under the wing and don't get powder on them there is a problem.
cheers,
Mike
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Post by vankarhi on Jan 3, 2012 11:42:30 GMT 10
Thanks for the reassurance Mike.........no I have not handraised any babies. Yes he had a shiny black beak, had the dirty feather look and I found myself patting him under his wings and around his head and checking my fingers for powder dust..........there was none. I am very relieved now as I stressed for almost the entire 6 days he was here........because I suspected it about 24 hours after bringing him home.
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