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Crop burn

My parrot, indian ringneck 2 years old had a crop burn we took him to the vet 2 weeks ago they told us to go back today so we did but then after they checked him we came home now his crop has a hole again and food is coming out from the right side of the Stiches so we took pyodine the red liquid to heal wounds the vet gave us to put around the wound and we put a bandage around the wound with the pyodine what should we do now? The food is coming out we plan to go to the vet tomorrow evening

Hi,

Did you mean 2 months old? I don’t understand how a 2 year old bird would get a crop burn, since he would be too old for hand feeding. Either way, you will need to follow up with the Vet as soon as possible. All you can do is make sure he is eating, to compensate for the food that is coming back out. Crop burns can take a long time to heal because as with any burn, the skin is damaged and will continue to fall away until all the damaged skin is gone and new skin has replaced it. It can seem healed and come open again, so he will need to be checked again. It is also very tender, and can get burned again even if the food isn’t technically too hot.

Take care,

Brenda