WARNING - giving a bird a liquid is dangerous because of the possibility of aspiration. And be very gental when handling a small bird. Our cockatiel had a very swollen eye. We used avian optical ointment on it and put a collar, the conical kind. A couple of days later I was convinced to use mms on his eye. The next day the eye was still closed but I hate to see a bird in a collar and besides, he didn’t have any ointment on him to smear around when he scratched his eye with his foot. So I took the collar off.

I had used it on myself before. Birds are fragile though, so I halved the normal dose of 1 drop per oz. I was especially glad that I weakened the formula when the cockatiel sipped from the dropper, he only weighs about 3 oz’s. I treated him about 4 or 5 times today. His eye is still closed but even after the first treatment he was tweeting a greeting when I talked to him, which he hadn’t been doing for a while. WARNING - giving a bird a liquid is dangerous because of the possibility of aspiration, if the solution isn’t carefully and slowly administer to a sipping bird. Nicky will take a couple of drops of ½ drop per oz each time I squeeze some on his eye.

I once sprayed a little stronger solution on a cockatiel who was a feather picker to the point of mutilation, but one day he broke a leg running away from me. So, don’t spray your bird unless he is in your hand, and be very gentle handling a bird. Their bones are hollow and easy to break. With a cloth wrapped around him hold him feet up if necessary.