I haven't been around for a while. I've moved my budgies home for the summer, so they are all in smaller cages now, much to the disgust of all the occupants. I have had to split them up into 3 cages.

Before moving for the summer I took Arkady to the vet as he had been gaining weight lately and refusing to fly and he was generally less active. I caught him and palpated his wing, immediate squawking and attempted destruction of my finger. So off to the vet he went. The vet palpated him and weighed him and everything. He is unsure as to why Arkady has a sore wing, so he prescribed some anti-inflammatories, which started to work as within 2 days Arks began singing an flirting with toys . The result of his weighing was not so good though, prepare for it.... 70g!!!!!! The Fatty!!! He'd been getting fat because he didn't want to fly because his wing hurt. The vets main prescription was healthy food and plenty of exercise!!!! with that many exclamation marks after it too. Unfortunately this all comes at a time that I had to move them into smaller cages, so the little fat will not get as much exercise.

When I said that whenever I take them out of the cage all they do is sit on top and blob, he said thati should chase them around a bit, but of cause to stop if they get too stressed.

Anyway. I was standing there watching them snooze and I couldn't help but take a picture of the fatty, who because of his bulk was almost drooping over the perch.

 

 

 

My favourite: he looks like a tennisball

 

While I was at it I also took some pictures of some of the others:

 

This is the little baby from Saffy and Emmett. He's gone all bratty in the past few weeks so he has his wings clipped to tame him up a bit before he goes

 

This is one of our little canaries; Edmund, she was named mistakenly as a male, to go with Baldric, which has now been corrected after she started to make a nest out of her food bowl.

 

Nikio:

 

I had a little play with the colours here to see, whether I could get her violet to stand out

 

Here the flash went silly, so I just played around a bit for fun

Edited November 27, 200717 yr by Sailorwolf

I haven't been around for a while. I've moved my budgies home for the summer, so they are all in smaller cages now, much to the disgust of all the occupants. I have had to split them up into 3 cages.

Before moving for the summer I took Arkady to the vet as he had been gaining weight lately and refusing to fly and he was generally less active. I caught him and palpated his wing, immediate squawking and attempted destruction of my finger. So off to the vet he went. The vet palpated him and weighed him and everything. He is unsure as to why Arkady has a sore wing, so he prescribed some anti-inflammatories, which started to work as within 2 days Arks began singing an flirting with toys . The result of his weighing was not so good though, prepare for it.... 70g!!!!!! The Fatty!!! He'd been getting fat because he didn't want to fly because his wing hurt. The vets main prescription was healthy food and plenty of exercise!!!! with that many exclamation marks after it too. Unfortunately this all comes at a time that I had to move them into smaller cages, so the little fat will not get as much exercise.

When I said that whenever I take them out of the cage all they do is sit on top and blob, he said thati should chase them around a bit, but of cause to stop if they get too stressed.

Anyway. I was standing there watching them snooze and I couldn't help but take a picture of the fatty, who because of his bulk was almost drooping over the perch.

 

 

 

My favourite: he looks like a tennisball

 

While I was at it I also took some pictures of some of the others:

 

This is the little baby from Saffy and Emmett. He's gone all bratty in the past few weeks so he has his wings clipped to tame him up a bit before he goes

 

This is one of our little canaries; Edmund, she was named mistakenly as a male, to go with Baldric, which has now been corrected after she started to make a nest out of her food bowl.

 

Nikio:

 

I had a little play with the colours here to see, whether I could get her violet to stand out

 

Here the flash went silly, so I just played around a bit for fun

 

 

OMG he's huge! (Laughing out loud). Biggest budgie I've ever seen. Poor bugger! Once his wing heals up he'll be right. It will fall off him and you'll have to enter him into the biggest looser show (Laughing out loud)

I have never seen a budgie that fat before !! He looks like a blimp !! Hope you can get him a bit slimmer

I hope so too. Don't want him to get sick or anything

But he is a cute ball :fear

 

I have one female who is 70g, but she has a hormonal problem and my vet said she won't live for too long . She didn't even loose weight after being on diet and eating some hormon pills. So I decided to stop giving it to her and leave her with the rest of the birds, so at least she is happy

wow, l have never seen a budgie that chubby before :fear

he is still a cutie.

Zebra: Yeah I think at least she'll get to live out the rest of her life happy

Birdluv: He doesn't look so fat when he sits up though hehe

Zebra: Yeah I think at least she'll get to live out the rest of her life happy

Birdluv: He doesn't look so fat when he sits up though hehe

 

Yes, she looks happy with the rest. She is the one in my siggy on left. One of my babies

 

I hope your boy will lose some weight, I'm sure he will feel more comfortable then

Wow!!! :budgiedance: And i thought Ozzie was a little chunky budge at 50g. :hap:

i want him! i want him! i want him! haha he is an absoloutly adorable little(big) guy haha he can be a new role model we can dub him "fat boy not so slim!" hehe and you're definatly right he does looklike a tennis ball :budgiedance: about to go face first by the looks of it too but what a great snap!

...Just more budgie to love (Laughing out loud)