marty Green Parrot Pants has ingested a staple - or pieces of a staple.
Here are two xrays, one two weeks ago and another yesterday. He's receiving
chelation therapy in the form of liquid, via syringe a.m. and p.m. and generally being
a very good "medicine bird".
The surprising aspect of this is that the avian vet is having me offer grit to SG on his cage
bottom to help grind the metal pieces so he'll pass them. He explained that parrots
in the wild do find their own "grit", and that he's found some surprising things in captive
parrot gizzards when performing necropsies.
Who knew? I guess it makes sense since they def have a gizzard, but