Today I went shopping for food and decided to get my budgies some seed and iodine bells. I bought some budgie mix and canary seed to mix into it. Any way I got home and as I was unpacking what I bought from the supermarket. I hold up the iodine bells to show my budgies the new nibbley things that I had bought for them. Then I noticed all this blood on the cage bars. A little worried, I look closer and find a large puddle of blood on the little shelf I made for Saffy. Then I see more blood covering the cage bars and a huge amount on the perch. I automatically think "Oh no Saffy, what have you done this time" She usually snaps blood feathers and do little blood squirts around the cage but not this much!!! So I'm frantically trying to find her, and you know how sometimes it can be particularly hard to find a budgie in a big cage, with lots of other budgies.

Finally I find her slightly huddled on a corner perch creating a new blood puddle. I automatically whisk her up and out of the cage to inspect her. I initially thought it was a blood feather as she had blood all over her tail and some on her wings, but then I see her feet and they are covered in blood. She got some on her face too (probably caused she scratched her face or something). After inspecting what I suspect to be the site of injury, I took her into the bath room and ran her a nice warm bath in the sink. I sat her on the side of the basin, while I waited for the water to warm up. She had perked up heaps and promptly fell into the water and got a wet head. So i put her into the bath tub, while I waited for the sink water to warm up. Finally it did and I put her in it and tried to wash her feet. I eventually managed to do so and I think all the blood came from either what looked to be a cut on her foot, or a broken nail (her nail looked quite short). She wasn't too keen on the water bath. Once she was all clean, I took her back to my room. I decided that if she has lost a lot of blood the last thing she wants to be is wet and cold. So I turned on the hair dryer and set it on the lowest possible settings and blow dried her. She LOVED the hairdryer. She would turn around to get it on the best side and she just adored it. I didn't have to hold her, she just sat there. She had such a look of pure bliss on her face. And when she had enough she just jumped off my chair and went back to the cage.

So I gave the budgies some egg and biscuit food, with some pellets and a good dolloping of spinach and hopefully that should help build her blood and iron levels up a again.

Anyway she seems pretty good now.

It was only later that I found MORE blood on the floor, it was from before, but I hadn't seen it. It is like she was connected to the mains budgie blood supply or something, because I don't know how she fitted that all in her.

Emmett is being a good boyfriend and looking after her and smooching and preening and feeding and cuddling her.

Edited July 16, 200717 yr by Sailorwolf

I am glad you sorted it out in the end. They can give us quite a fright at times cant they :ausb:

I'm glad she's okay now! I HATE discovering blood in the aviary or one of the indoor cages, it's really scary! It's amazing how far the blood can get around.

Yeah, I had just done a major budgie clean out on Saturday too. I spent 7 hours cleaning out all the perches and wiping down the cage bars and the wall :ausb: and now I have to clean it again. I think she put it off until after I had cleaned it.

glad she is okay

oh boy !! that would have scared me too if l saw all that blood . l'm glad she is okay now .

Edited July 17, 200717 yr by birdluv

:budgiedance: Oh dear, glad she is okay now!