You probably already know about Truman's injury and vet mixup. When I originally brought him home after a 4 day stay at the vet, Truman was eating fairly well on his own. During that week he had managed to stabilize his weight toward 320g. However, since the medication overdose and abrupt termination of medication, he has lost interest in food. If he weren't eating at all (as the day of accident and day after), I'd be bringing him back to the vet urgently. However, he does eat but just not an adequate amount.
Without my assistance, I'm sure he'd be losing even more weight. All of my intervention is doing something between maintaining this low weight or losing it slower. The simple fact is he is taking in less than he is putting out. Right now I'm in a position where i just have to wait and see if time/medication improves his condition or worsens it to know how to act. It is difficult for me to afford to keep him at the vet for more days if I don't have to so I'd like your advice about how I can encourage him to eat better.
Here is what I did this evening which barely got enough calories into him. I feed him foods in order from least eager to most eager to eat so that he can get a bit of everything. First I gave him broccoli and he picked at it for a little while. I don't know if he actually swallowed any or just played with it like a toy. Then I gave him Roudybush pellets and he had a few (but not a meal by any means). Then I gave him some of his Pretty Bird pellets that he was weened onto and he had a few of those. Next I fed him oatmeal out of a teaspoon. At least half of that teaspoon ended up on the floor and he wouldn't eat a drop more. I tried giving him some baby food (apple sauce or something like that) but he wouldn't touch it. I mixed up some Lafeber and tried syringe feeding it to him but I think he was spitting it all out. I thought he'd like being "baby fed" but sure doesn't seem that way. Kili ended up eating more oatmeal than Truman. Finally I gave him two almonds and he zealously ate those. I cracked one but he managed the other one his own.
If he's got the strength to crack and eat an almond, I'm surprised why he can't just eat his pellets. So through all this feeding effort, it brought his weight from 310-315g which for him is about 1/2 of a meal (and leaving lots of room till 330g). Oh and did I mention he's been drinking far less water than usual. So this is a tough situation. If he weren't eating at all, I'd have to bring him to the vet to be gavage fed. But he is eating and to an extent on his own. It just isn't anywhere near his normal food intake. I don't really know what to do.
Also, as it seems like he is very willing to eat his nuts despite lack of interest toward other food (that he normally likes), I've been giving him way more than usual in hopes that he gets at least some calories. Is this bad? I think he's had a total of 3 entire almonds and a whole walnut today. And I'm not feeding this to him in place of pellets. I'm only giving him a nut after he had eaten pellets and refuses to eat any more. Truman isn't particularly familiar with alternative foods yet so it is difficult for me to come up with different things that he would want. Does anyone have ideas about universal foods all parrots like that he could be eating in his condition?