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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR - Novice questions about pet birds
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Date: 3 Jan 91 16:49:29 GMT
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In article <5120@gara.une.oz.au>, rjacobs@gara.une.oz.au ( ABRI) writes:
> So I can't still can't pass an opinion whether the vet was right or wrong.
> A 15% loss in body weight by the cockatoo that was ill would be worrying,
> but since the bird was ill the loss in weight was much higher than you'd
> expect in a healthy sedentry cockatoo.

That doesn't really follow.  Illness shouldn't have anything to do with the
amount of weight lost.  Food intake is the only reason a bird would lose
weight unless he has a condition that robs the bird of nutrition.  The cockatoo
had a bacterial infection that had no relation to the amount of weight lost.

Mikki Barry
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