Sunny is Here!

  

We picked up Sunny from the foster coordinator last night and she was right Sunny is a super sweet bird! She stepped right up onto my hand within seconds of meeting her and was quite happy getting her head scratched. She is just beautiful! As all conures do, she has quite a squawk but so far she isn't all that vocal.
   We have her in a smaller shorter cage until the leg heals. We have to wait till October when we will take her to vet and see how the leg is doing. The vet is hopeful that she will make a full recovery. The unknown is whether or not there was any nerve damage which we won't know until it is unwrapped.  Amputation is an unfortunate possibility but a far better outcome than euthanasia which the former owner wanted. What a shame it would have been to put down a sweet bird like this one. She was lucky to have a compassionate vet who called PEARL.
     Once again we are fostering a bird who is on seeds that will need transitioned to a healthy diet. We have had success with so far so I am pretty confident Sunny will be eating her veggies very soon. I am so pleased with how much healthier my other birds seem now that they are all eating better foods.
   Sunny presents several challenges for us and we are going to have to just take one day at a time and figure things out as we go along. Perching is one such challenge. Sunny only has 1 good leg and the other is vet taped in a splint so it makes perching difficult. We are going to have to experiment to see what works best for her.
   Eating is also a challenge because conures like to pick a piece of food up in their claw and hold it while they chew it up but Sunny won't be able to do that. I realized that as I was cutting up apples for her breakfast. I had to make sure they were small pieces. I also have to make sure the water bowl isn't big enough for Sunny to take a bath as we don't want the splint getting wet.