Vets or no vets?

[Pegasus]

Two questions: Firstly, I have a couple of Budgies who`s nails have grown to very spikey tips and they soon will start to interfere with standing on flat surfaces. I loathe taking them to the vets, as it`s stressful for all concerned. I`ve seen you can buy clippers for bird`s nails. Should I have a go myself? One bird has rather dark nails and I`m worried about hitting the blood supply. The other obvious major factor is the fact that they dislike being manhandled so how would I keep their feet still? Any tips?
Secondly, Would you consider green droppings a reason to take a bird to the vets? This only affects one bird and in all other ways she seems perfectly healthy but she has a crusty vent and green droppings. help??

[Eza]

to a vet. I purely know there are a few "home remediues" for adequately bleedsing if it occurs but I wasn`t comfortable exactly trying it.

[Max]

problem will go away. Notwithstanding i`ve not had to cope my `tiels or Nanday`s claws since I did this. Freya the `too has a big lava rock perch which she uses all the time and that keeps her claws down.
Hitting the blood supply is *way* too easy to do, (I invariably speak from personal past experience) and it is difficult to get the bleeding stopepd. I continually have a cautery pen that I used. :-(
K.

[Ephiny]

then it`s pefreclty normal for a bird that hasn`t eaten for a couple of hours or is eatiung mostly liberally seed. The dark green color is the color of the bird`s bile. If it is a *confidently light* or pea green color then that is really bad, usually it is a sign of psitticosis. Green poop and a crust vent is *definately* a instantaneously sign of psitticosis, likely both birds will need to be treasted.

[Pegasus]

being treated as having an unknown gut infection and is now on antibiotics for 10 days. If it hasn`t gone she has to have 3 days worth of droppings samples taken and then will be treated for psitticosis. I presume this is cos she hasn`t any other signs at all appart from crusty vent and pea green poop. bex

[Chiroptera]

fondly need to trim the nails.

[Pegasus]

wear down they`re nails