What is this!

[kyle]

@ Babs. He has had 3 doses of scatt 3 weeks apart. Your right poor guy! Every morning I hope to see a change but he remains the same. I'm sure if I can't figure out whats going on it will do him in. .

@Cindy. He has a water silo that he drinks from so it's easy to monitor the amount of water he goes through. And he is drinking at least double. I stopped putting vitamins in the water for fear he's going to ingest too much. I posted this pic to show his posture notice how the wing tips are carried.

[kyle]

cindy Do these pictures I posted suggest anything to you?

[cindy]

@ Babs. He has had 3 doses of scatt 3 weeks apart. Your right poor guy! Every morning I hope to see a change but he remains the same. I'm sure if I can't figure out whats going on it will do him in. .

@Cindy. He has a water silo that he drinks from so it's easy to monitor the amount of water he goes through. And he is drinking at least double. I stopped putting vitamins in the water for fear he's going to ingest too much. I posted this pic to show his posture notice how the wing tips are carried.

As far as the Scatt the vet recommended way of using it topically is 1 drop to the back of the neck directly on the skin, retreat 14 days later and then again 14 days later for a total of 3 treatments in 6 weeks, not 3 treatments 3 weeks apart total time 9 weeks. 3 weeks leaves too much of a gap regarding the life cycle of the mite according to our avian vet. No bath water during the first 3 days after treating.

[lovezebs]

kyle

Kyle, do you have a regular Vet, that's in your area?

[cindy]

An avian vet would be a good idea at this point.

[kyle]

lovezebs. I do have a regular vet hospital that i take my minpin to. However it has many veterinarians and I've never seen the same person twice. Last time I was in I asked about getting some scatt as a preventative for the finches. They politely let me know they weren't interested in finches but would recommend a avian vet that as it turns out is completely is out of my reach. I will call the other vets close by and see if I can find one who is interested. He is about the same so I'm still hopeful I can resolve this.

[cindy]

Just curious what you are feeding your birds. Are you using a pelleted diet along with seed and veggies? You mentioned a liquid vitamin, which are you using?

Vitamin deficiencies can cause certain conditions... they can't get what they need from seed or veggies alone. They are also recommending now that if you use pellets not to supplement the birds with extra vitamins since to much of certain vitamins, mineral can be toxic and cause certain issues with the birds since a majority of these are stored in the liver.

[kyle]

cindy. They have a Finch seed mix, boiled egg with the shell put through a garlic press vegetables and greens. Every second day I use a vitamin called Vita-Sol in their water. It has been a month since I gave them the last treatment of scatt. Unfortunately I had given the treatment 3 times 3 weeks apart. I'm wondering because I didn't give them the treatments two weeks apart if it was effective.

The only veterinarians that are willing to deal it are way too far out of my reach. I have called all the local veterinarian and spent the last month waiting on call backs that never came. My split to blue is exactly the same as he was no better no worse. He hasn't lost any more feathers and is singing and eating. However his droppings are still watery and his wing tips are often a little lower than they should be. What's really concerning me now is I suspect they all have a little something. No feather loss on any of the other finches or watery droppings but something is going on. They just don't seem as robust. They do all sing and they're breathing clearly. I guess I'm wondering can I try scatt again only every 14 days for three applications?
I know that nobody can give veterinarian advice on this forum. I do however appreciate any advice experience finch keepers have.