Hello everyone......
I only became a member yesterday, after being a regular "reader" of this site...you guys all sound so nice and full of experience.......
I am having a really bad time at the moment with my budgies, I have lost 7 and only have 5 left and a few of those are not looking too good.
I bought a larger second hand avairy and I had 2 birds quarantined ready to add to my flock.
I scrubbed out the avairy with a mix of bi carb and lemon juice and rinsed it heaps over a week - the following weekend I added all my birds including the new ones - within a few days I lost 1 bird - just dead on the ground in the morning for no apparent reason, I then lost another one.... I then took out the ones that were puffed up (3), with pooey bottoms, and lethargic and put them all in seperate cages..... I took one to the vet and he wasn't very helpfull at all really, he gave me some stuff to put in their water - I lost 2 of the ones a seperated - I then took all the others out of the avairy again and scrubbed it this time with a chemical disinfectant and rinsed with the hose every afternoon for a week so no residue was left - that was last weekend - they are still dying, they seem to be eating heaps but staying very thin and sitting puffed up....I don't know what to do ... what have I done wrong???