Not been a good day.

 

I just went out and checked on my aviary, and one of my birs has a bloodied wing. I checked all the others and there is no blood, so it does not look like a fight.

 

It looks like a flight feather has been coming out and he has pulled at in and got all bloodied. Looks worse as he is a recessive pied, and his wings are really white.

 

he is eating and flying well. i got him out of the aviary and looked at wing, made me even think that he may be a she when i looked at the cere, but he seems aright.

 

With Ozzy escaping i am not having a good day

It may have broken a blood feather, Dave.

Here's some good info for you, if not for now, for the future

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...d=37&artlang=en

 

Cheers karen

You think you've had a hard day.

 

I lost the Krang Bird. Picture in my Avatar on Thursday. He was dead when I got home. He had been sick for some months.

 

I checked the breeding pairs and found a chick 25 days old missing the top beak. The first bird I had to dispatched. Not a very good experience and I am still not over it.

 

Last night I came home to find 4 fertile eggs that I was given to me and was about to start hatching tomorrow all eaten by the fostered pair.

 

I have not had a great week. :ausb:

You think you've had a hard day.

 

I lost the Krang Bird. Picture in my Avatar on Thursday. He was dead when I got home. He had been sick for some months.

 

I checked the breeding pairs and found a chick 25 days old missing the top beak. The first bird I had to dispatched. Not a very good experience and I am still not over it.

 

Last night I came home to find 4 fertile eggs that I was given to me and was about to start hatching tomorrow all eaten by the fostered pair.

 

I have not had a great week.

Daz :hap: You have NOT had a good week......I am sorry about the Krang cock...I know how hard you have been trying to get him better.....and all the rest of what has happened leaves me with my jaw dropped !! :ausb: Couldn't get much worse, mate

How is your bird today Dave?

 

((hugs)) Daz :ausb:

he is good, eating as normal and flying around the aviary. But then, although bloodied, he was always like that

Give him a wash in warm water with a bit of Baby Shampoo. If you can get some Fido wash, a couple of drops will help with any lice problems.

Thanks daz. I was wondering whether i should wash him. Good advice - as awlays

okay, today was the first chance I have had to get in to Hugo. My injured bird. He was eating okay previously from what I had seen. I got him out today as he was not looking the best, and he looks like he is in a bad way. I have isolated him and given him a spray with some lice spray.

 

he seems distressed. i am concerned that washing him, or even over handling a bird that is not used to being handled will distress him more. below are some pics. thoughts????

 

The injured wing

 

the loss of feathers arounds his eyes, as well as the puffiness of the right eye in particular are a worry.

Edited July 2, 200718 yr by dmcminn

Is SHE eating Dave ? How thin ? Can you feel the keelbone. Looks like she may not have been eating well and looks a little dehydrated maybe. The blood on the wing in these photos looks fresh. Is it possible there is a broken bloodfeather that is still leaking blood. Blood feathers need immediate removal if you ever discover one...here is how to do it....

 

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...=152&artlang=en

Edited July 2, 200718 yr by **KAZ**

Poor budgie still looks distressed even after the shower.

I am yet to see Hugo (you think he is a she?) eat anythign today, but yesterday he was eating and flying normally without a care in the world. the eyes have only become puffy today

I spoke to Kaz on MSN and she gave me some great advice

 

I have removed the blood feather with tweezers, given him some calcivet in his egg and biscuit, given him some greens and grated carrot, and of course seed and water. He seems better.

 

here is the broken feather in question

 

Here is his little hospital cage setup

 

And here is the little guy.

 

I am still thinking he is a guy. Any feamle bird would ahve sqwarked and bitten me hard, but he was really well behaved - only a little squeak as I pulled the blood feather out. very well beahved.

 

 

Not out of the woods yet, but a big thank you to kaz who talked me through it. Many of us who are starting out need to learn a lot and fast, and people like Kaz offer so much, so thank you to all those helpful people

Judging by cere colour I would say a girl. Not all girls are evil, my baby girls are pretty good

glad he or she is getting better

by the look in the picture though esp the bottom one looks males

the picture is a bit blurry but it looks like a pretty deep pink?

yeah, bottom pictures are a bit tricky, but I'm going to go with the ones in focus.

Well he is looking better already. I still say he - pied's can be tricky - (Laughing out loud).

 

He is easting well, his right eye appears better, and he is definitely a lot more chirpy.

 

He will get to spend a couple of days in a hospital cage, then some time as an outpatient, before he returns to the wilds of the aviary.

Good news Dave. I would not return him / her to the aviary until there some more meat on its bones considering how thin and sick it got

Looks to me like she's been in a fight. She looks to be missing most of her flights on the right side. I agree that I would not put her back in the aviary until her eye heals completely. I've had a bird get a swollen eye just like that due to a fight. He went to the vet and ended up on antibiotics and a steroid injection to combat the inflammation and pain. Since she has been in the hospital cage, how has her appetite been? Do you have a gram scale where you can weigh her daily to make sure she is not losing weight? She is a pretty bird. How old is she?

 

Oh yeah, my hens generally don't bite hard - if they are inclined to bite at all. Normally they don't unless I have a medicine syringe in one hand and them in the other, LOL. That isn't always a reliable way to differentiate between the sexes.

i do not think she was in a fight, unless the other bird bit one of her feathers in half. i think the eye was swollen due to infection, stemming from the blood feather than I removed. I think she has been improving. the eye looks like it has stopped sweeling, there looks to be less blood on her wings now, and she seems generally happier. I was out today, but she seems to have been eating more. I will be changing cages with her tommorrow, so she is in a normal sized cage. That will be easier for me to assess her.

 

I have a set of scales and I will weigh her first thing in the morning.

 

In terms of her age, hard to tell. I only got her this year, probably around March. She is probably about 6 months old, that is a guess.

That budgie is definitely a girl.

not sure what happened to my latest update, but anyway....

 

Hugo, or her Hugoness as I am now calling her, seems ont he improve. She is eating more, today she even had a nibble of some spinach, she is eating millet, and I have put some vitamisn in ehr water to help her. She is definitely more active when she hears or sees other birds, but her fathers around her eyes are nto back up tos crath yet. Some more time in isolation of her own cage, eating nd buidling her health will benefit her i think.

 

Her hugoness, i am finally admitting that she is a girl, is back in the aviary. Her flight feathers have all regrown, and her sweeling has all gone down. She is much healthier. it is funny as she really bonded with one bird, and now she is back in the aviary, she is probably annoyign the *** out of her. She looks much healthier and i am very pleased with ehr recovery.

 

Pics will cme later.

okay, some new pics of "Her Hugoness". Still not convinced she is a girl - until she lays an egg - (Laughing out loud).

 

Hanging around

 

Sitting chatting to an imaginary friend