I was given a canary a few months ago from someone who wanted to thank me for something or another - knowing that I raised birds, she didn't see any difference between giving me one kind of bird from another! So now I have a Canary! This canary which I've had for six or seven months now has lumps on her wing! - Canary People {from what I understand} call them Feather cyst? I don't know if this bird has "feather cysts" or just cysts, or tumors!! She started out with just one smallish lump on her wing that grew very large in a matter of a couple of weeks - it's hard and you can see the blood right in the lump - She now has two more, for a total of three- much littler right now, but definitely there. One bigger then the other. But I just found them after giving her a shower. They are only on her one wing. When I first saw the one lump, I brought her to a Vet. He said the one he saw was a cyst, but he didn't mention feather cyst. He stuck it with a needle and said that there wasn't any fluid in it, that it was dead cells that made up the lump. When he looked at the cells under a microscope, he said that they were not Cancerous! Yeah!!...The Vet said to try some cream on it, that it may soften up, come to a head and then open! - {it didn't}. It never even softened up, no less open and clean itself out.
My questions are these: First are these lumps "feather Cysts" or another kind of Cyst or tumor? Second will they go away by themselves? Like the Vet said come to a head and open!? Or is there something I need to do to help them open and drain. Third: Do they hurt? Are they painful? She doesn't seem to be in pain! She allows me to touch them, poke at them. I've even tried to squish them to see if they would open like the Vet said they may. But being that they're so hard - nothing happens! And finally: Does she need to be put down? If she is in pain, I don't want her to suffer. Will she just keep growing more and more, until she's covered with them? Are they stoppable?
I am putting a link on this post, to a picture I took of the Cysts {tumors}: I hope it works!!
Maybe someone out there knows what these things are. *Blaze*
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa29 ... s2.JPG.jpg
"Feather Cysts" Or Tumors
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"Feather Cysts" Or Tumors
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