okay so now i am having more trouble

 

I just foundout that my baby budgies is missing a foot and the other foot does not have much use.

I am stuck here andi need to know what i should do.

 

The baby is fully feathered now as well.

 

Another thing is that my male keep on attacking my female and throwing her to the bottom of the cage jumping on her and pecking her.

 

I think i should find a different mate for her, But what would make him peck her

Edited October 15, 200420 yr by blvlguy

I'm sorry to hear that about the baby. The best thing to do would be to make sure he can easily move around to get to food and water. Since he will have trouble perching, some flat surfaces in the cage will be necessary. And a trip to the vet is in order, to see if there is anything that can be done to strengthen the foot he does have. I don't see why he cannot have a somewhat normal life if you are willing to take care of a 'special needs' budgie.

 

As for the male, it's possible he wants to breed again and the female is not ready. Watch them, if she becomes injured from him, he will have to be moved to another cage.

 

However, I have some questions, which will generate more questions later: How old is this baby budgie? Does it appear to be congenital, or was his foot bitten off?

Edited October 16, 200420 yr by Rainbow

the baby would have to be 3 or 4 weeks old by now and it look like he was born that way cause there looks to be no sign of it being bitten.

And i had to move the male cause i think my female budgie might have a broken wing or it is very injured cause she is having trouble moving it.

And now i have even more bad news cause my other budgie that was in the cage has been brutally attacked by the male and seems to be dying cause id is lying on the bottom of the cage and it is also bleeding alot i have tried my best to clean the little guy up but io think he is suffering to much and i was wondering what would be the best way to put him down.

I caled the vets and none of them know about birds or well accetp them cause the only one who did moved to a different city like 4 hours away.

Any help would be great.

Oh no - that sounds awful! Having an extra bird in your breeding cage is probably what's causing your troubles. I wasn't aware you had an unpaired bird in there. Take him out. I would not 'put him down' at home - he needs to see a vet ASAP if his injuries are that severe. Find an emergency clinic and just show up. As far as the female, if her wing is broken, she needs to see the vet ASAP as well. In the future, do not leave an unpaired bird in a single breeding cage. You are probably lucky you did not have problems before now. Let us know what happens with them, please.

oh my!

Hi blvlguy,I was just wondering how your birds are doing now as you really seem to have it rough at the moment.

 

Julie

Yes, what did you end up doing? How are all the birds?

Guess he never came back?

I guess not. I certainly hope he took the birds to the vet though.

take a wild guess and say the baby died

 

it does happen and dont be ashame to say it died. you can be watching over the budgies 24-7 and stop attacks.. thats how 5 out of 6 of my budgies died... one still alive and going strong...

 

i havent checked up on him yet but ive heard him chirping madly for food when both mums come in (Laughing out loud)...

 

2 mums couldnt protect their babies :/

 

ohh By The Way there was another death... i dunno if i told u guys but the white bird somewhere in my pics that i think julie liked was attached to death by the same budgie that kiled the other 5 :/

I know you can't watch the birds 24/7, even though I'd like to - flock dynamics are so interesting - and I know these things happen. I did not mean to imply in my earlier post there was something wrong with it - but from the way the injuries were presented, I'm sure you agree that veterinary attention was necessary. I sincerely hope he was able to get his birds taken care of, and that their injuries weren't too severe.

One question though - if you know there is an agressive bird in your aviary or cage, and that is how you breed (colony-syle) instead of using individual breeding cages, aren't the signs there way before a bird is injured or dies that signal there could be trouble? blvlguy had an odd bird in the breeding cage, which I think contributed to his troubles. Knowing flock dynamics as I do, I'm pretty sure there were signs all his birds weren't getting along. I don't think Budgies just all of a sudden decide to go on a killing spree. But having never bred birds in a colony situation or with an odd number of birds in the same cage, I do not know from experience. (I bow to those that do.) Raging hormones do change behavior. I know that when mine have disagreements, they are quickly taken care of between the birds and none of them have ever attacked each other enough to cause injury. They are more vocal than anything. Am I just lucky in that respect?

 

 

Were you able to move your agressive bird before any more problems occurred?

there were no signs at all..

this bird was prob about 6 months old of not tad more...

 

the birds dont come accross as aggressive... there was one fighting a couple of months ago over a breeding box... yet she didnt have a mate.. figure that? but she was seperated for a month and reintroduced and i had to put more boxes in and now happy paired up with a mate and ready to lay eggs very soon...

 

but no visible signs of violence until its too late... but thinking of it now...

one thing they have had in common is they didnt have a mate at the time....