Maureena

In case anyone has the need (hope you don't) to use a collar on their budgie, here is my link to a template we made for a homemade vinyl collar that works really well for our girl. http://www.maureena.net/Collar.html Thanks

Thanks Phoebe That's fine, we'll do the math and figure out what we need to do. Thanks

Hi Phoebe Sorry, one more question for you :-) My mother-in-law takes this prescription and has kindly offered to give us some to try out. Would you tell me roughly how much you put in your birds water? I have four budgies so I am not sure if I should put it in the water for everyone but I can dose her separately if I need to. I really appreciate the information you have offered. thanks Maureena

Hi 2 of my budgies had blood tests probably about a month ago. I always wondered how they would do that. My avian vet took blood during nail clipping...she would just clip one nail a little deeper and let it bleed a few drops into a very tiny vial. As a matter of fact she warned me about my blue budgie as he bled too easily and I would have to watch if he ever injured himself that bleeding might not stop. My other budgie didn't offer up as much blood. Still, it was a miniscule amount the vet took and they were fine afterwards.

Hi This has come up recently on different forums, and I was wondering what everyone else thought about feeding tuna fish in water once in a while? Does anyone feed this to their budgies and if so, how often? I have read in a number of different holistic bird sites, that it is a good thing to feed for protein. Anyone?

Thanks Phoebe

Hi Phoebe Thanks for the information. Can you tell me if you had to get a prescription for synthyroid pills or can you get this over the counter? I certainly hope my girl goes for many years. But we watch her closely every as her tumor had ulcerated. I clean it every day and put a dab of polysporin cream on it. It is helping to heal the scab up. Thanks again

Thanks Reena for the advice on the collar and how its made, I will definitely work on it and make one similar to yours. Your budgies are beautiful! Hi Alev I'm glad at least I could help somehow.

Thanks very much for looking at the pics, and I took your advice and ran over to the new members section. Thanks!

Hi Thanks for the info. I will just leave a link to my photos instead.

:sad: I also have a budgie with a tumor. We've been to our avian vet a couple of times. Basically the vet gave us very little option but to take her home and let her live out her life. Her tumor is also on her abdomen and it was ulcerated. We were told surgery would be anywhere between $3,000 and $5,000 which realistically is not something I could afford and also we were not given a good prognosis for her even surviving such a surgery. We were told that it was not our fault, we didn't cause this and we were doing everything right. We were told it was mostly hereditary and budgies are prone to fatty tumors. Hers is about a quarter of an inch in depth and is pinkish like her skin colour. She was picking at it when preening and we had to make her a small cape like pliable plastic collar. The collar the vet sold us was bulky, hard plastic and had heavy snaps on it. It wouldn't allow her to be able to fly, so we made our own similar to that one, but smaller, pliable plastic and trimmed with pink bias cotton tape. When she is out of her house, we flip the collar into a cone shape and it doesn't impede her flying abilities. We remove her collar a couple of times a week to let her preen. She is active and the tumor doesn't appear to bother her except for the fact that it may be itchy. Her diet is also white millet, and their primary veggies are kale and broccoli and whatever else I may have on hand. We don't know how long she has, if the tumor will grow or stay the same size. But we are doing the best that we can do for her, short of surgery. Here is a link to further pics of my birds. http://www.maureena.net/Pets.html Maureena