The cockatoo had been a previously adopted bird who had fallen and had a wound on its sternum. Coco had picked at this scab for 9 months and it was bleeding and infected. An Elizabethan collar was of no help. The owner dropped off the bird, hysterically crying. She could no longer cope with the birds self mutilation.
Coco comes back about once a week for a dressing change.
He is healing up nicely, though the wound was so big that it may take up to 3 months for it to completely heal. The meyers was brought to my house in a paper bag, found by a man, who didn't know how to care for it and knew that we had birds. We had an adoption application from someone who had selected a meyers as their choice of adoptive birds. So in a few weeks, the meyers will go to its new owners, if its old owner is not found. I hope that this info has been helpful for this important portion of your club.