Nharvi

Thank you Feathers, I really appreciate the answers. It seems like you and I think the same way. I got the distinct feeling she was trying to clear her beak/nose the way she was vomiting, and also since she was eating straight after. The vomiting started with her moving her head up and down as well as somewhat back (like picking seeds in the air, but while bending her head backwards and looking up the roof kinda), then shaking the head side to side as the seeds flew out from the beak. She did this maybe 10 times, and then straight off eating again, and it kept going with a few interrupts while rubbing her beak against whatever was around her and cleaning it with her feet. She seems happy enough, now she has calmed down with the itching, so hopefully whatever was stuck in there is gone, and she is making all her feathers pretty again. I put in some nice fresh bathwater for her just now, so maybe she'll take a dip and feel a bit better. Thank you again for some feedback and good advice, and if she isn't back to her usual self by the morning, I'll book an appointment with the avian vet tomorrow (today the vet was booked up and quit work right around lunch). Huge, Nharvi edit: Thank you Kaz =) a girl can never have too many people telling her she's pretty, am I right? =)

Hi Feathers, Thank you for your reply, and thank you for thinking she is pretty. Most people say she is n ugly little duckling, but she has charm and heart, and I think she is gorgeous So she is a girl after all huh? Good to know, I wasn't sure She is quite the singer and have both male and female behavior, so it's been a guessing game so far She seems okay right now, cleaning herself like mad as I write, and chirping away quite happily. She does look a bit sleepy tho, if I sit with her and talk she closes her eyes, pulls up one foot and seems like she is about to fall asleep. I'm not sure if I should be happy she is relaxed, or worried that she is being sleepy and might be sick Having said that, I did wake her up at 6 am to see that she was still alive and well, so she might just be a bit tired after the early morning wakeup. I didn't move her to the window today though, thought I'd give her a rest and time to recover in case she actually is sick. I called a couple of different vets today as well as a place that has a lot of budgies for sale, vet said that if they ever vomit it's a really bad sign, and the avery place said they haven't had a single budgy behaving like it. However, when I think back, I haven't seen her vomit before, but I have seen the seeds 'glued' onto the top of the cage of where she sleeps a couple of times before (with maybe 3-4 months in between the times it happened), which brings me to believe this isn't the first time she has thrown up. Could it be that she just had a something stuck in her beak and she vomits to try to get rid of it? The reason I'm thinking that is since she went straight down to eat as soon as the vomiting gave her a break last night,. Comparing to other animals I've had (cats, dogs, horses etc) none of those eat if they are sick and throwing up, so one would assume it would be the same with birds, but I could be wrong. Sorry for a long post, I'm just worried I guess, and want to make sure I cover all needed information so that I can find out whats wrong with my precious little thing.

Hi all, it's been a while, life has been busy and beautiful until last night, a little after he climed up top in the cage to sleep as usual.. All of the sudden Konrad (my 1½ year old budgy) started bobbing his head up and down, and then shaking his head violently sideways and throwing up seeds. After doing so perhaps 10 times, he jumped downstairs, ate some more seeds, jumped up to his sleeping area again, and started to clean his beak violently against the mineral stone he sleeps on top of. This repeated about 5 times over the course of say 1,5 hours. I got the feeling that something was stuck in his mouth more than that he was feeling ill, and he tried to get rid of it. He wouldn't let me help him, and I finally went to bed (after I changed everything in his cage food, water, sand etc as well as put in some fresh yogurt to him). This morning I get up, and he looks pretty okay. No vomiting so far, he does have something bothering him with his beak, but it seems a bit calmer. He has been singing, eating, drinking, dancing and carrying on as usual for the past couple of hours since I got up. He is talking back to me and just seems like there is no problems in the world, apart from rubbing his beak against different things as well as itching his head with his foot. Not as violent as last night tho, now it's more like an itch (even tho a beak shouldn't itch, right..?). I also put in fresh water in his little bath, since I read here that they get kind of messy from the vomiting, and he might want some extra help with cleaning himself up. I'm just worried. The vet said I had to bring him in asap, but they had no appointments.. I live in Sweden, so it's tricky to get a good vet quick apart from the specialist. I've read up what I can about budgys and vomiting on the forum as well as on other pages, but I don't feel any calmer. It's possible he ate something that was bad I guess.. hence the instant change of all food and water in his cage, but other than that, I don't know. He is a special little boy (or girl, we still don't know), and I don't know what I would do without the little crawler. He has some bad feathers, but he has had that since we got him, but since august he haven't been able to fly, since he isn't growing out any wing feathers long enough, but the vet says it can happen. In the wold he wouldn't make it, but with us he is just a really good climber now, that occasionally takes a huge jump down the floor He also sneezes, but he only does this when I move his cage to the window in the morning (so he can see the birds outside thats eating from the birdhouse right outside the window), so I've understood it as a way to express excitement from his side. This is something he has done since I first got him, and it's the only time he sneeze. Here is a picture of Konrad, taken about 2 days ago: http://www.hateguild.net/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=1653 Thank you for any advice you guys might have, Nharvi and Konrad edit: Ps. As of now, he is climbing around in his cage, hanging upside down as usual and chewing on everything as usual. I also wanted to say, that he haven't eaten anything outside the cage, since he only chews on things inside his cage.

Hi all and thank you for the replies. Yes, it's sorta like the honey sticks, they sell them here in Europe, but they have a special type that has a lot of fruit, eggs and other things in them, on the package it says it's an all-side diet and all the budgie needs, but I'm not sure if I sould trust it. However, it is from Vitakraft who are known for their good products. I'll try to get a picture of her sleeping, but like I said, she hates the camera with a passion =)

Hi there, we are new to the forum! I am a 25 year old girl from Sweden. I have been on the forum unregistered for about a month now and I'm somewhat new to budgies. Then there is Konrad, my first budgie who my fiance gave me last october for my birthday. After almost a year now of not knowing for sure what gender Konrad is, I got some help here, and it has been decided "he" is a "she". I have called KOnrad "he" for the past year, so it will be quite a change, but I hope I will learn soon. Konrad is a strange little bird. From people I talk to who have budgies and from what I read, he isn't behaving really like they should... I guess it runs in the faimly, that thing about not being like everyone else ;D For start, all she eats is those Kräcker candy sticks from Vitakraft.. I'm not sure if you know about them, but I'll show a couple of pics here for you. They seem to have most of whats needed for her to feel alright, but I would like to have her eat a little more diffrent things. Since I got her, I've always had a couple of diffrent options of food for her in the cage, and in the beginning she ate some of the normal birdfood, but now it's all hirsch or those kräcker sticks. EDIT: removed links that didn't work, they look like honey sticks, explained it more further down. She isn't getting fat, nor is she too skinny (at least I don't think so). She just wants her food the way she likes it, and if I don' give it to her, she refuses to eat anything else til she gets one, even if thats 24 hours later. Yea, she knows what she wants, our little lady. She hates the camera with a passion, so taking her picture isn't too easy, but I've tried to take a few so you get a chance to see her. You will also see her tailfeathers are a bit miss-shaped and way too short, they have been that way since Konrad was born, but she doesn't seem to suffer from it, flies like the wind and doesn't seem to notice that she is missing about 2 inches of her tailfeathers =) She has her cage open all day long and fly around the room a lot, so she is gettng exercising as well. We usually have music put on on the computer even when we are not at home, and we have noticed techno, loud drums and the song "In the jungle" (you know the one from the Lionking that Timon and Pumba sings?) are the favourites. She goes bananas when it's on, I haven't really figured out if she loves it or hates it =) It's clear she wants to be louder than the song itself whenever it comes on tho. Other than that, she sleeps hanging from the side in her cage, or squeesed in between the roof in her cage and the swing she has. Tried to find a picture, but imagine the space between the roof og the cage where the swing is put onto and where the iron bar starts going down to form the top of the swing, we are talking about barely an inch of room or so. The people next doors have a cat, who sometimes sneak over to our balcony (we live on the second floor), and he sits outside our door whining to come in. 'Aha!' thinks Konrad, ' a pal!' She happily sings and talks to the cat outside who now realise that there is fresh dinner in our apartment, and whines even louder. We are considering getting Konrad a friend, but we haven't decided yet. Since Sweden is extremly cold in the winters, and really warm in the summers (and this summer especially), Konrads cage have been out with us on the balcony most of the days and he has had a lot of friends out in the trees by our house, as well as the budgies in the aviar next doors, so now when winter is incomming it feels somewhat cruel to leave him all alone without a birdfriend to talk to during the days. Anyway, thats my little treasure. If you want to get to know him better, feel free to have a look at him here either in pictures or at the video I posted (yea thats me trying not to laugh when my fiance tries to get Konrad into his cage again when he had just arrived 3 months old) =P Konrad and the dancemoves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WED903SniJI Be safe all, Nharvi/Jen and Konrad