Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / September 2004

We took in a baby lutino straight out if the nest box for a friend, I wish I
would have taken pictures to post, this person actually believes that the
parents were feeding it air and blowing up its crop, this poor little guy
had sour crop and its crop was blowed up like a balloon and right under its
chin was also a balloon and the food it did have was starting to compact, a
day later and after alot of research and talking with our vet, we fed it
Pedialyte with a dash of Kaytee Exact formula and spirulina powder, the
bubbles were a bit smaller but still very much there, calling around got us
an answer from a breeder that had the same deal with a whole clutch, she
said too prick it with a pin, we did and all was going well, two days later
and the baby is doing fine except now, here's the question....

Its laying its head completly off to one side, you would swear it has a
broken neck by the way it looks but it is not, it can and does hold it
proper, but when it starts to rest or sleep its right back to its one eye
stariing straight up at the ceiling, poor thing, we made a tiny little neck
brace for it and it seems to be helping it out.  Any one ever had this????

We are leaning to a deficiency of some sort, just dont know what and neither
does the vet. any ideas.??