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okay so I have brought Boof in from the aviary to be cage mates with Buddy. They get along really well, Buddy is such a friendly little guy and Boof is still young and happy to have a friend that does not beat him up. Boof is also going through the worse case of molt that I have ever had on a Budgie so he is cranky and annoyed with the world.

 

I decide to clip Boofs wings and MB comes around to help me. During the little procedure he catches his foot on the clippers we see this remove it and is fine, put him back in the cage, go to put more stuff in the car and my sister tells me that Boof is bleeding. So I catch him clean it up, put blood stop on his foot, he also has blood all over his head so we figure that he has scratched it with his bleeding foot. Everything appears fine off to we to finish the aviary we are putting up at MBs...

 

I get home and there is blood all over the cage :D So I catch him again clean him up again, put more blood stop on his foot and it seems to be right, clean out the cage and go to bed...

 

I wake up at about midnight, for no reason, nothing woke me up but I just sat up in bed and thought "I have lost one"

 

So I go and do a head count, everyone outside is fine outside of being upset I put on all the lights and woke them up, everyone in Quarantine is fine outside of a turned over water bowl. I check the study, fine fine fine... get to Buddy and Boofs cage and it looks like a blood bath :D

 

So I grab them both as they are covered in Blood. I think that maybe they had a fight or something cause really there was blood everywhere, I start to clean them up, Buddy first cause he is easier, there was so much blood on the side of his face that he could not open one of his eyes...... Once he was done I gave him a warm dish of water to bath himself in and he was happy doing that as I start on Boof. I go straight for the foot but once clean can not really find anything that would cause this amount of blood, I look at the tea towel that he was wrapped in and it is getting more and more blood on it. Finally I attack his head and find a crop of blood feathers. About three where broken and bleeding right under his eye. I remove these three, try and bath the area a bit and add more blood stop. I then find another one on the top of his head that is also seeping so it to is removed and more blood stop applied.

 

Buddy at this stage is upside down in his dish of warm water screaming and having fun, Boof is so annoyed at me that I think he wants to take one of my fingers off and I am sitting on the floor of the bathroom just after 1am crying holding a fluffy bloody mess.

 

Boof started going limp and I really thought that he had bleed out in my hand. So I call the emergency number for the vet down the road from me. I get the nice one who I like he says that since there if no much difference between going to the clinic and coming to my house he would grab his stuff and meet me in about 20 mins. To keep Boof still and warm until then.

 

So I am still sitting on the floor in the bathroom (it has heating lights and one of the warmest rooms in the house) with a limp Boof in my hands and a now sort of depressed Buddy who was sitting on my wrist looking at his mate going "mum what’s going on why is he not getting up to play with me"

 

The vet rang the doorbell which my sister got up to answer and had no clue what was going on. They both found me and Boof was given about 4 injection. To tell you the truth at this stage I had sort of faded out. I remember people moving around me and my sister giving me something warm to drink.

 

Boof was set up with a heat pad and put in a small box the vet brought with him. The vet showed my sister how to give him another injection today, I was cleaned up and put to bed and Buddy was put in a cage next to Boof's heat box and the vet left with instructions for my sister to give him an injection when she got up and for him to bring him down to the surgery when I got him from work. (my sister is a diabetic so injections are nothing new to her)

 

He seemed a lot chipper today when I was doing the rounds but I will admit last night was one of the worse nights of my life. The vet said that Boof will have to always be watched during molt as this may happen again. I think he took about 4 or 5 other blood feathers out of the poor guy as well.

 

Last night is something that I do not want to ever have to live through again.....

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I am so sorry to hear of your bad night, it must have been like a nightmare. I hope that Boof recovers and it does not happen again. Things do not seem to be going well for your budgies. I will be thinking of you and praying that the problems with your budgies improve.

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Oh my gosh what a night, you poor thing :D

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OMG, AV wow what a night and good thinking on your part and how wonderful that the vet came right to your house, fingers crossed Boof is okay.

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OMG!!! what a night!! you have a very good vet that would come out at 1am!!

Well done for being so in-tune with your birds and acting so fast.

 

My thoughts are with you and Boof - I hope he will pull though.

 

My Lady nearly bled out once in my hand, she had ripped a flight blood feather and it was reduced to a really short spurting quill that i could barely grasp with the tweezers - Poor girl, it took her 3 days of heat and rest to recover from the blood loss, but she is fighting fit now :D

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Thanks deb the really strange thing is that tonight before I went to bed I thought "everything is going to be fine" The guys in Quarantine have really improved. None of the other guys seem infected. Breeding room is underway. you know things where really looking up....

 

Liv thanks, nice to know that with a little TLC they can get over these things. I was really impressed with the vet, now I just have to wait for the bill!

 

Thanks guys for the well wishes and thoughts

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What a terrible experience for you !! Hope all has settled down now and maybe today you will need a small nap to catch up.

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What a terrible experience for you !! Hope all has settled down now and maybe today you will need a small nap to catch up.

 

 

The floor under my desk looks nice! ;)

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Gezz Mate,

 

Hope it's all up hill from here you & your birds have gone through a lot

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Your telling me neat. But it does look good. The Quarantine guys are looking really well. The guys outside have come along and being really good. Harley is looking better then he has in years. My Breeding room is coming along well. So come about the 30th of Aug I can look at moving people into breeding cages and start breeding. Everyone will be off meds by that stage, Kadaj looks so well that I am happy to reset his Quarantine and the boys Micky and Brandon are also doing really well. Just got to get their girlfriends over the line and we are home and hosed. Sky is also 500% better. It's just then when things start looking up something like this happens and BANG I am back at the start again. But we are getting there. :hap:

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I am so pleased to hear some good news with your overall situation :hap:

Roll on 30th Aug :hap:

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Wow AV! I was reading that thinking Oh my god I did cut his foot bad! It was a relief when I realised it wasn't anything I had done but also very scary for Boof! I hope he recovers quickly.

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What a saga to go through. You poor thing. Lets hope it will only get better.

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Oh no... what a horrible night. I hope he recovers quickly and is back to his normal self in no time. Biggest hugs from me! Lucky you woke at 1am. :P

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He got a clean bill of health from the vet and now look really none the worse for it! All set up in his new cage which is nice and has more room for him and Buddy :P

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They're a worry aren't they :P . I'm glad he is much better and I'm sure he doesn't know what all the fuss was all about... but I'm sure you added a few more grey's to your scon!!! :D

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They're a worry aren't they :P . I'm glad he is much better and I'm sure he doesn't know what all the fuss was all about... but I'm sure you added a few more grey's to your scon!!! :D

 

 

yeah the reason i dye my hair is cause I have birds!

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They're a worry aren't they :D . I'm glad he is much better and I'm sure he doesn't know what all the fuss was all about... but I'm sure you added a few more grey's to your scon!!! :P

 

 

yeah the reason i dye my hair is cause I have birds!

 

 

me too :P

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LOL - I dye my hair for artificial intelligence :P

 

Serious note, glad things are okay :D

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Posted this in the wrong topic so double posting it here as well

 

Boof today, looking a little beaten up but trust me 100 times better then last night

 

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oh my.....what a fright full experience that you went through, l'm glad that everything is okay now.

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