Posted June 16, 200718 yr I bought some new birds two weeks ago, this is a picture of the one that wasn’t well. The day after I got them it didn’t look like it was going to make it, it was on the floor with its wings hanging down, trembling& wheezing. I left it for a day or so to settle from the stress of being at the sale & traveling. I just put it in this cage in the house near the fire. I treated it with Ivermectin & the wheezing stopped & put some antibiotic in its water. At first it just sat on its perch & rarely went for a feed. It now seems to have improved it feed more often & when it hears me, it now in the last few days jumps from perch to perch something it didn’t do at all, the strangest thing is that in two week it hasn’t made one sound. Maybe it has some lung damage from air sac mites, but maybe it’s just scared that if it makes a sound it will be outside in the cold with all the others. It is a Green rung bird so quite young & not too bad a looking bird, so I hope all goes well. An Opaline Grey Green Cock. Edited June 16, 200718 yr by Norm
June 17, 200718 yr Good to see he is better Norm. Sounds like you did all the right things to bring him back. He's a lovely bird
June 17, 200718 yr Hi Norm, it is good to hear that he's improving. A bird I got last weekend had a runny bum when I got her and then she didn't eat for a few days. She has come good now, being a young bird also, I believe she was stressed by the move and then got a dit depressed. You would never know by looking at her now that there was anything wrong. Feathers.
June 17, 200718 yr Author Thanks guys. I hope now that it’s just an amount of time, for whatever needs to heal; I don’t think I will loose it now. When it gets better I will try it with another bird, a hen & see how they go. It’s just so strange to me, that it doesn’t make any noise, it can hear the other birds close by, but doesn’t call out. It’s not deaf, as if we make a noise in the room it gets excited.
June 29, 200717 yr Author Well after about one month in solitary confinement, I decided to risk a young hen with him to see if that would make him perk up some more. Well that didn’t work, he was scared of her & she screeched at him & lunged at him a few times. He became a nervous wreck & got down on the floor with his wings out & panting hard. I left her for a few days, but it didn’t work, so I took her away, after she left he spent most of the day eating at the food dish. I think he may be a lost cause now, as I decided to have a closer look at his ring, I thought he was young, as it was Green like this years ring, but on closer inspection I think it was the last time Green was the colour so he may be something like 7 years old. My eyes aren’t like they used to be, even with my glasses, on the ring was KM which was on the old Kempsey Macleay ring, this club is no more & there is a new club starting up. As best I could work out, it had SBS in small writing across the ring, then XI maybe roman numerals, also across the ring then KM & a number, no year. So part of his problem may be that he is over the HILL. :yellowhead: A bit like me...they say once your over the hill it's real easy...it's all down hill from there ...(Laughing out loud). Edited July 1, 200717 yr by Norm
June 30, 200717 yr Hi Norm, he is a 2001 bird. One of the birds that I got from the country breeder is the same age, so right on the final edge of breeding age for a cock. I may or may not try him with a hen this year. If not he will go into retirement. Your hen may not be in breeding condition or past breeding season. One of mine that had a crusty brown cere nearly ripped off a cocks head, so I put her back in the aviary. Within a few days the cere was white/blue again. Feathers.
July 1, 200717 yr Maybe you should put him with a friendly male budgie, or introduce him to a girl really slowly, by putting her in a cage in the same room as him and then next to him, and then let him fly out with her and then put her in his cage. He might just be a really nervous fellow and need things done slowly.
July 1, 200717 yr Author He’s had a bad relapse today, I don’t hold too much hope for him, but he was like that when I got him, but with age against him, I’m not that hopeful.
July 2, 200717 yr Author One unnamed Budgie. He just suddenly got real bad & collapsed, I have never had a Budgie that was sick like him, he didn’t show any outward symptoms, like the runs etc I think he had lung damage. I think he was quite a nice looking bird [in the show sense] & that he had been kept to such an age, seems like he was valued. Just sad I couldn’t bring him back at least long enough to get some nice young from him. But we can’t win them all.
July 3, 200717 yr Sorry to hear that Norm Our birds carry many things in their systems that seem to come to the fore when under stress....like being caught, moved, sold and breeding. Also very hard to tell the age of a budgie at times too. I have just got a microscope which will aid in detecting problems within my flock, by testing of droppings. It's the "silent killers" that we need to know about to keep our birds healthy. But, as you say, this guy may well have been old. You did all you could. :angel1:
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