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Some of my birds started to wave their tail feathers up down continously , it is more obvius when they spend some effort flying etc...

 

When closely looked , the reason seems to be the ritmic tightening muscles around the vent area , they still eat well , fly well , is this a sign of ilness ?

 

Both females and males do it .

 

Thanks in advance for all the responses .

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Its called tail pumping and in most cases can be a sign of illness. You will have to assess each bird on an individual basis. Check them over for weight loss, poopy bottoms and signs of parasites.

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if they are with other birds isolation might be handy :fingerscrossed: goodluck and keep us posted

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There is a very obvious pumping motion of the brest with each breath and they are stretching their neck , if what I learned is correct the aim of this is straightening their trachea .

 

I guess this is a lower respitory infection , I started a treatment with tetracycline 3 days ago , there is a noticeable improvement on the birds , tail pumping is less .

 

The treatment will continue until Sunday but by the medic , they had diarrhea , I will add

boled potato and banana to their diet .

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I just would like to report the status , I had lost 6 birds out of 30 effected , the rest is recovering well , like Kaz said the problems differed in each bird and I have had to learn many lessons as the vets around the city I leave have very minor experience on birds .

 

Now , my medicine inventory covers a wide range of diseases , hope I will not have to use them again .

 

I was not having a separate hospital cage with heating or lightening availability , so I had to begin the treatment in a room temparature of 16 C . Later , when I was able to create a temparature controlled enviorement around 30 C within hospital cages , there happened a real quick improvement , in a few hours they were more active and feeding themselves better .

 

One thing , I was sorry is a lack of crop needle as with this on hand I might had been able to save more birds , never the less I ordered some and will be ready to use in a week .

 

As I said , after bad experience with the vets around , I decided to learn more on the bird diseases , for now , I have no intension in budgerigar breeding , more likely my aim is to keep my flock healty and happy . I stoped the breeding until I feel myself confident in keeping budgies .

 

I will be glad if someone can suggest a detailed book for budgie health problems , their disagnosis and treatment .

 

Thanks in advance .

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