The situation is again precipitating into emergency, Trilly is sick again. I have an appointment tomorrow late morning but I am so scared that she's not gonna make it through the night. Reading about poor little Muffin has made me even more worried, I know it's not rational but still.
When they started nesting under the bed I moved the old and the new eggs together to the nest again, leaving the nest top semi-open so that they wouldn't relax too much. I noticed from past experiences that other birds peeking into the nest unnerves them.
The cage they are in, a Double Vision, is too tall for putting a basket anywhere; I couldn't suspend it because the cage is too narrow and the bottom is so much down below, they'd have just abandoned the eggs.
I marked the old eggs, checked now and there are three unmarked eggs. Idiot me, I don't remember whether I marked the 2 eggs I found under the bed.
Just like last month, when I went to open the cages this morning she was sitting on the perch with the eyes half-closed. She wasn't particularly puffy but she's always very vocal at that time, instead she was just not interested in coming out.
And again, just like the last time, she hop on my finger and stayed there just looking at me.
I arranged a hospital cage in the bathroom with the hot water running and put a hot water bottle on top, above where she perches.
Later today I found an old gadget, one of those vapourisers ladies use to open the face pores, I bought it years ago and has been gathering dust in a cupboard since... But I thought maybe it would provide continuous steam if put next to the cage.
It's identical to this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006TVE0EG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3/275-4728619-9802069?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_r=12PMD1VBZQEXEGHHFEVR&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=569136327&pf_rd_i=B001VNCB1GThe cage is now on my desk, with this thing in front of it and both covered with a blanket so that the steam doesn't escape out in the room.
I also keep the hot water bottle on top of the cage, every now and then I put it in the microwave so it stays hot.
I have a infrared reptile bulb but I don't have a lamp that fits a bayonet type, only got lamps that fit bulbs with a screw type fitting, damn. The lamp is a 100W so maybe it would be too hot anyway. Which wattage should be the best to keep a bird warm?
I need to buy the right one, for these emergencies.
I raided supermarkets and chemists for Gatorade or Pedialyte... in the UK they don't sell either.
The most common equivalent of Gatorade is called Lucozade but it contains caffeine so I went for a can of stuff whose ingredients seem similar to Gatorade. Trilly didn't touch it, but I left some in the cage just in case.
At the chemist I got something called Dioralyte, for children, and I think it's like Pedialyte.
http://www.boots.com/en/Dioralyte-Blackcurrent-6-Sachets_6229/I put some in a bowl and with a syringe I wet her beak so she had to lick some up.
Is it the right thing to give her?
She is not vomiting this time, but she isn't touching food. I made her an egg and she looked at me with a totally disgusted face
Since this afternoon she only had one poo, quite large but not enormous as you'd expect from a laying lady; the consistence is loose but not liquid.
She is bobbing her tail but not too much.
When I took her out of the cage a couple of hours ago she was shaking, poor baby, but she stopped as soon as I had her on my chest covered with my hands.
Is there anything else I can do? Is the Dioralyte ok? What about the steam machine, is it ok to use it?
Please everyone if you have any idea or suggestion I'll be immensely grateful, I am worried sick and I have no idea whether the things I am doing are correct. Thank god she is perching and not sitting on the bottom of the cage, I pray it stays this way.