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Ozzie's weight is down more. He's now 39g. I'm still waiting for the vet to ring back, if i haven't heard from him in about an hour i'll try again.

I want them all on meds but can't contact the vet. It'll have to wait till tomorrow.

I'm not sure that Ozzie's eaten much since this morning, maybe he was pretending... He has eaten some food though which is better than none. He's also been playing with his toy and hopping around the place. I weighed him and he's not lost any more weight. More trouble though...Blinkie hasn't eaten much today. Little rat! I'm not convinced he's sick cause he is pacing around his cage like a lunatic and chattering like an idiot. I think he's been doing this ALL day so far. Personally i think he's worried about where his flock mate is and as an alternative wants people so paces when people are in the room. I even hung some millet in there for him and he's ignored it! His poos are small (not eating) but not unusual other than that. His weight has been down to 35g from around his 37g usual weight for a couple of days now (how long Oz has been separated). I phoned the vet and the avian vet isn't in today, grrrrr. I left a message with the receptionist for him to call me tomorrow about treating everybody though. This is so frustrating!

Well Oz has perked up BIG TIME! He's been scoffing down the millet and his poos are looking normal (i imagine because he has food in his tummy to poop out). He's chirpy and enjoying some sun in Tim's room.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Jim will always remember all the love you gave him, and i'm sure your memories of him will be happy ones. RIP Jim.

I'll ring in the morning and hopefully be able to talk to the vet. Convincing dad to drive me there to get the meds is another matter...

He doesn't have any of those things in his cage. I'm going to have a week of being worried sick before i can ask about treatment for the whole flock. I wish i had persisted while i was there instead of letting the vet brush the idea away but he seriously did not give me the impression that it was necessary. :budgiedance: I tried talking to mum about my worries and she just got angry and stopped talking to me, she thinks birds are so much hassle when they're sick and cause me all this worry. Same with dad really. I wish i could go back tomorrow and get treatment for all of them. I feel like i'm taking a big risk now, waiting for more to get sick before treating...

I'm just so worried sick that Ozzie's going to die and all my other indoor birds will get it and die too. I had no idea that it was really deadly and now i'm worried sick. I don't want any of my birds to die. I'm scared to death that it's going to be long and expensive to treat and that dad will get fed up going to and from the vet and spending money. It would seem as though Ozzie's a carrier based on the fact that twice in his life it's popped up during a stressful time, so what would stop it happening again and again. :budgiedance: I remember reading your post as it was happening. Why would the vet give me the impression that it was easily treatable, he didn't give me the impression that it was really deadly. Just that it was really common - more so with the warm, wet weather we've been having.

Straight from the reciept, Ozzie was given a treatment of Vetafarm Psittavet via injection (for the psittacosis i imagine, i was told the injection lasts a week - explains why we have to go back next Wednesday) and Baytrill for the related infections/bugs (he had a high bacteria count or something in his poo, the vet did a gram stain). There is one avian vet in Canberra so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do other than what he can tell me and the medications he uses for his patients. I don't mean to sound rude at all! I'm stressed and worried that Ozzie's going to die. I have ONE vet to go to and have to trust what he tells me, because i don't have any other options.

Hmm, well i was told it's EXTREMELY unusual for humans to catch it off their birds. I specifically asked about treating the other indoor birds and he said that we could go crazy treating everyone and he would love to spend my money but that as so many carry the disease that unless they're actually showing it that treatment does very little... And the treatment definitely isn't doxycycline, it's Baytrill, and i wasn't given any instructions not to feed veggies either. :budgiedance: This guy is a trained avian vet and i would rather not do anything he's not instructed me to do. I'm seeing him again in a week and will ask again about treating the flock as a precaution. Thanks Daz. I actually jumped on the computer first thing when i got home and read up on it, i read the last page you posted already and the other two pretty much said the same. The vet also gave me a fact sheet on it.

Aww, tell Apple thanks. :budgiedance: I think the stress of the car ride and needle was a bit too much for my little man. He's sleeping right now. I wish he'd eat something, it's really make me relax a bit more. *sigh*

Vet says he's got psittacosis, poor baby. I didn't even notice till we were at the vets but he's barely touched his food today. :budgiedance: He got an injection at the vet and Baytrill to go in his water for 5 days. We have to go back to the vet in one week to see if the meds are working. If they are i think i have to continue them longer, if not then we have to find something else. No treatment for any of the other indoor birds just yet, he says it's so common for it to be carried in birds that he doesn't usually treat unless they're showing symptoms. So i have to watch all the inside birds carefully. Ozzie's in Tim's room for now, and will potentially be in there for a month depending on how long i have to treat Ozzie. I tried to tempt him with millet, and at first he dug in, but he quickly lost interest. Now he has his seed, pellets, millet and a piece of carrot to hopefully lure him into eating. I hope he gets better.

I was thinking that moving to a new cage may have been stressful. Or it could have been that he found being in his cage on my bed in the same room as the tiels and breeders stressful while the new cage was set up? Who knows. My vet is really good about seeing you on the same day if you say you have a sick bird. They're very aware that a lot of the time people don't notice till it's almost too late so want to see any bird showing symptoms of illness ASAP, they have appointments blocked out that can't be booked till on the day so they can fit people in. Ozzie's still whinging about being confined. Jumping about and chirping at me. He's eaten and drunk, but still isn't pooing normally. We'll just have to see what the vet says.

He's got a 4:30pm vet appointment. This is going to use up the last cent from my bank account, just for the consultation. Dad'll have to pay the rest. The symptoms make me think of what ever he had when he got sick 2 weeks after i got him, that was treated with an injection of some kind and medication for a week.

Poor little Oz seems to be a bit sick. I started noticed some unusual poops in the cage about 2 days ago so yesterday i separated Ozzie into another cage and have been watching him. This morning he's done nothing but unusual poops, so it's been him that's the sick one because in the big cage with Blinkie all poops are normal. I've also been weighing him. At the weekend he was 46-47g, yesterday he was 44-45g and today he's 41-42g. So it's steadily going down which in a budgie who likes to eat as much as Ozzie is really worrying. I'm waiting for dad to get out of bed so that he can tell me when he's got meetings today and when he can take me and Oz to the vet. He's still active enough, he's hating being in the little cage and is doing lots of pacing and jumping around. I'll keep you all updated, let's hope he's alright.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope he's feeling better real soon. *hugs*

Yup!! I'm so happy he's staying inside.

Check out who tried some veggies this morning! Fizzy must have followed his dads lead and dug into the dish of bok choy and carrot. :nest: He's four weeks old today, and is becoming very happy around people. He loves head scratches too!

Opening another box and getting the tray out is probably requires too much brain power for them.

Here's some piccies i just got of my naughty little flock! Bailee absolutely hates budgies, when they're near he'll do that and squeal like a pig till i remove the offending budgie. This is a problem cause Blinkie thinks Bails is rather sexy and likes to flirt with him! Blinkie flying in for the flirt Ozzie watching from the boing I think Blink looks so scrawny in this picture And here is my first (bad) flying pics of Cookie, i'll get better ones once she can fly properly.

I am an extremely shy and quiet kind of person. Don't think i could get loud and angry at them. They said that what they do is send the product straight back to the supplier and get a full refund (why they apparently can't give me store credit), i've never seen the trays available separately.

I haven't spoken to any one about the original cage. I got it from a different pet shop and never got a reciept. I can't see the point in ringing the shop. I've been trying to find a site for the manufacturer of the cages but haven't had any luck.

I'm so irritated!! Just rang the pet shop to see if i could get a credit or something and other than taking the cage back and exchanging it there's nothing. GRRRRRR!!! As i have a tray that fits and have set the cage up i'm not doing that. But that's so rude, if i'm going to fork out that much money to get a broken product and then not get any credit at all! I don't think i'll buy from there again.

I thought i would see them in it and think it was ridiculously big but i don't, it's perfect for them! They're already totally happy with it and exploring their new house.

New cage is home, built and decorated. Had a bit of an issue at the pet shop. They scanned the cage and the price that came up was $239 rather than the $152 i was expecting!! I explained to them that i had bought one a couple of months ago for $112 and it had been on sale with the catalouge claiming that i was saving $40. They couldn't find a catalouge from January but believed me and charged $159 (who knows why not $152, but whatever). So then i get it home to find the tray is cracked in one corner. I was SO angry!!!! However, as the old cage and new one are made by the same company the trays are the same, so i'm just using the old one. I'll ring the pet shop in the morning and have a whinge, i want some store credit. We also had a few little problems putting the cage together, some of the screws were REALLY difficult to do up, but my brother did it in the end and when i finally stopped being annoyed at the cage i decorated it with lots of perches and toys. For a while the budgies just did psycho laps around the loungeroom when they saw the big scary thing in their usual corner but now they're happily sitting on it and right now Oz is sitting on the rope perch i've made a landing zone out of on the door and flirting with a toy. Here's a before picture: And after: