my budgie has had this big scab for 2 months due to a broken blood feather that hasn’t healed properly. today she fell reopened the wound she was bleeding heavily.. it stopped after less than 5 minutes because i applied pressure. she’s eating and acting normally and i can take her to a vet later. does this look like her tissue or just a scab?
Please be kind 🙏 This is Lemon. My budgie is around 1 month old. I'm handfeeding him with a spoon. I don't know its gender yet. We don't have an avian vet here. Only vets for dogs and cats:(
My concern is the blocked nostrils. When he chirps, I can hear his nose blocked just like us when we have nose mucus. He's active, playing ball and it has appetite. It's been raining a lot in my area because of a storm. Luckily, I noticed this 9 hours ago and immediately searched online for what to do and gave him a hot steam.
What more can I do? TYIA 🥹🙏
Found this sweetheart next to the road with a hurt wing. She had enough energy to bounce away from me but her wing is obviously hurt or broken. She is safe and sleeping now but I have no idea where to take her for the wing. I live in northern michigan and will be making some calls on where to take her. In the meantime, any suggestions besides rest, food and water? Is there something I can do for the hurt wing while she is in my care? Thank you all!💙🤎
I don’t normally feed them seeds regularly only millet as a treat but I added a little bit of seed into their food mix yesterday and today one of them pooped and I realised that there was some seeds in her poo. I don’t know if I should be worried or not.
What is this noise?? She seems fine otherwise, she just starts doing this sometimes. It'll last a few min and then stop. It started about 15min after she last ate anything.
Had her for 8 years now (unknown exact age, assuming around 9ish) and never had a problem like this. Her partner died 2 years ago so she is very shy and timid (though she was never fully tamed to begin with) and she is very uncomfortable being held so i can’t fully inspect her without scaring her. She doesn’t appear to have lost a lot of blood as there is no blood in the cage. Her behaviour or eating habits haven’t changed at all since i first noticed it.
Anyone got any ideas as to what is happening?
We found this parakeet in a square. She's a young female in heat, and we decided to take her home to care for her because we already have other budgerigars
We put her in a cheap little cage we had as an emergency measure because we didn't want to put her with the rest of the budgies before making sure she didn't have anything contagious, like a parasite or if he might fight with the rest (who are a family of 3)
It would also help if you could identify its mutation or breed
My 1.5-year-old pineapple conure has been itching intensely and preening herself A LOT, especially around her head. Because her nails are sharp asf, she ended up scratching herself hard enough to bleed a little. I'm also worried she could seriously scratch her eye, because one edge of it is a little red now, which I think is from her scratching so much. The other side is completely normal, so I'm really worried she might end up injuring her eye badly if the itching keeps going.
We took her to the vet, and the vet said it could possibly be mites based on looking over her skin while I was holding her. She couldn't do a proper close inspection because my conure is VERY defensive and bites anyone other than me. She advised giving her 1 drop of meloxicam and getting Mitokill spray, but it's currently unavailable everywhere I’ve looked.
The itching is NOT stopping though, and I'm worried she's going to keep hurting herself. I was thinking of trimming her nails so she can't scratch herself as badly.
Is there ANY safe home remedy I can use to help with the itching until I can find Mitokill? And is trimming her nails a good idea in this situation?
I got my Indian roseringed parakeet approximately two months ago, he’s been strangely attached to his cage, he goes out of his cage and stays above it but becomes strangely aggressive when he’s on top of his cage and the moment I take him away from his cage, if it’s the same room he’s in or it’s in his eyesight he immediately flies to it, he also hates being on the ground he only likes to go to my shoulder, and the fact is he isn’t just attached to his cage I also have a cocktail in another room so when I take my parakeet there he flies to the top of the cocktail’s cage immediately and it’s really concerning, he is okay with staying on my finger sometimes if he’s away from his cage but most of the time he’s going to run to my shoulder ,do you guys know what I should do with him / her.
( I don’t know it’s gender yet so I’m not sure if it’s a he or a she)
Hello all, this is my mom’s parakeet Tango- he is almost 3 years old. My mom is on vacation and I have been bird-sitting. I don’t know much about parakeets, but I do have pet ducks. The past day or so I noticed he has been puffing up a lot. He has also began sneezing. He has been eating and is active, and he also is still very vocal- he loves to sing. But now, I need to know if I should bring him to the vet- is he tail bobbing?? Please help!! Is he sick? I’m super worried
Hello! I’ve started a new job and there is a cockatiel bird cage near the front desk. It’s two birds one boy and one girl and I’ve heard that the girl has been getting agitated/ stressed and is pulling out her feathers :( idk anything about these kinds of birds but with some light research I know they need time out of the cage to fly. These birds never get any time out of their cage and I don’t know if anyone really takes care of them. They seem more like live decorations which makes me really sad. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to help these birds have a better life? My options may be limited but they’re really cute little guys and I want them to be happy
Is anything wrong with my bird? He is 7 months. Today's the third day that he have come to my home.
His root of tongue is slightly yellow. I don't know what it is. Does he get sick? And his shit color is somewhat bright.
Hi all,
My two budgies (both boys) are 5 and 6. They’re both very active and love time outside the cage as well as baby sweetcorn. That being said, I know budgies can slow down a bit and encounter health issues as they age. In your experience, what are the main things I should be looking out for as they get older so to avoid any treatable issues?
Thanks!!!
My cocktail had some blood feathers broken and flying feathers fallen yesterday, his wing is **slightly trembling/twitching intermittently** after a vet removed several broken blood feathers. He is alert, perching normally, and eating, but sometimes the affected wing trembles and he also preens it
Is that normal?
Its been 20 hours since the vet visit
Hello, we have grown really concerned about the behaviour of our budgie in these last few days. She is a four year old female. She has been weak and tired close to four days now. She is feathering which we assumed was the source but we started to think she was egg bound which scared us further. She still eats though it has to be handed to her as she doesn't move much. She also passes stool which keeps us a bit calmer about the possibility of egg binding. We're also suspecting there is something wrong with her feet? Those whiteish spots were not there before. The second photo is her using her beak to stay upright. She's been unable to stand up by herself. She hasn't been using the foot that's in photo one so we're suspecting something is wrong with that foot specifically? Please help! We're trying to do everything we can to help her, she's getting a calcium supplement (whale bone) right now and we'd like to know what else we can do. We do NOT have access to a veterinarian.
I think my girl has an impacted crop? She has been laying down all day, lethargic and falling on her face when trying to move. I caught her and gave her some electrolytes and oil in a dropper which caused her to drool a bit. I was worried she would aspirate so I propped her up in some bedding in the garage. Is there anything else I can do?
These are the bird's baby their nest fell from tree and those mother is there but not picking up what should i do???
This is my grandmas ~6 year old budgie, I heard they took him to a vet that deinflated it or something but it grew back again. Good vets aren’t really that available (accessible) where they (or I) live for the matter. So, graceful redditors, please share your experiences and diagnoses with me. Little guy deserves it.
My budgie is behaving mostly normally, chirping and looking pretty normal, but it seems like he might be flying slowly? He has poop smears in his vent and greenish looking poop. It seems like he is trying to clean it himself. He has been sick twice before and he is acting much better than he did then. I know that they can hide illness and don’t want to risk it though. Should I bring him in to the vet or am I overreacting? Maybe I could give him a bath?
My budgie has been doing this with her beak for some time now. I think it started yesterday but I don’t know if I should be worried. It doesn’t feel like a content beak grinding. What do you guys think?