I'll bet you all thought I was going to show you how to shortcut quarantine, didnt you ? Admit it

 

Just a little post here as I was talking with a show breeding friend at the bird supplies store today. A girl she knew had bought a young apparently healthy budgie somewhere else and had put it straight with the existing bird. Within a short space of time the new bird was deathly ill and may not see the night out.

We often see on here the excuses people use to put birds together far too soon. Quarantine often lasts only as long as the owner can last in keeping the new bird from their exiting birds. It becomes a case of excitement and impatience for the budgie owner...to see their birds together. Often it has been said that the owners partner was the one that let the birds get together. Other excuses were the bird was calling out and stress. Pacing the cage. Another good one is "it looked fine"

BUT many, many of us have suffered the loss of birds in the early days when we didnt quarantine either, or do it for long enough. Those of us who have had these losses have learnt by it. We seem ...to the newbies, ...to be stubborn and rigid in our ways when professing the virtues of quarantining birds.

There are very good reasons for this.................

 

and hearing about this poor little bird earlier today just made me so very sad. Knowing it could have been very different. Knowing that the bird might have survived. At this point from all I know, the little one will not make it through the night.

Very very sad

Edited September 3, 200816 yr by KAZ

I'll bet you all thought I was going to show you how to shortcut quarantine, didnt you ? Admit it

 

Just a little post here as I was talking with a show breeding friend at the bird supplies store today. A girl she knew had bought a young apparently healthy budgie somewhere else and had put it straight with the existing bird. Within a short space of time the new bird was deathly ill and may not see the night out.

We often see on here the excuses people use to put birds together far too soon. Quarantine often lasts only as long as the owner can last in keeping the new bird from their exiting birds. It becomes a case of excitement and impatience for the budgie owner...to see their birds together. Often it has been said that the owners partner was the one that let the birds get together. Other excuses were the bird was calling out and stress. Pacing the cage. Another good one is "it looked fine"

BUT many, many of us have suffered the loss of birds in the early days when we didnt quarantine either, or do it for long enough. Those of us who have had these losses have learnt by it. We seem ...to the newbies, ...to be stubborn and rigid in our ways when professing the virtues of quarantining birds.

There are very good reasons for this.................

 

and hearing about this poor little bird earlier today just made me so very sad. Knowing it could have been very different. Knowing that the bird might have survived. At this point from all I know, the little one will not make it through the night.

Very very sad

 

 

thats not verry nice quarentine is a thing i do if im a little sus with a bird i wont always do it. but i mostly purchase birds from the same place all the time but i always check out the place i purchase birds from if it isnt as clean as me i wont purchase a bird from there i havnt had a problem with my birds dieing but maybe its just been because im lucky.

 

regards Joel

Well said Kaz... poor bird hey?!?! I read so many posts by members saying they broke quarantine, for what ever reason... and it's NOT always the newbies... QUARANTINE is a must, regardless of where you get the birds from and how they look. 30 days minimum for all birds. Better to be safe than sorry i say

There could be,2or3 reasons this bird,became crook.It may of been off colour,when brought.It may of been in with a

heap of other birds at the pet shop & caught some thing there,or her birds may be carrier of a bug that the bird may

not of been in contact with.When I buy birds,I put them into a breeding cage,in most cases,with a bird of mine,that way

I know it has been in contact with my birds,If either bird get crook,I have a fair chance of treating the problem or

bining the bird.The main thing is when buying a bird,is to no where it came from or if it looks the slitest of colour.

Do not buy.I guess most, that come on this forum,have only a hand full of birds & buy on a wim,see it have to buy it.

It wasnt a petshop bird but a breeders bird. May have been sold a little too young but wasnt quarantined from the existing bird.

good experience & points Kaz to bring up

It wasnt a petshop bird but a breeders bird. May have been sold a little too young but wasnt quarantined from the existing bird.

I would say if it was to young,quarantine was not the problem.

The was just to young.Was the breeder a first time breeder,

because he or she,should not sold the bird to young,to the breeder.

There are many reasons / excuses for not quarantining birds -

 

Reading all the members RIP's Lists in their signatures and stories of losing birds and all that Jazz - to me 30 - 90 days is nothing. I'd rather wait that time out and use precaution and treatments then to just add it to my avairy and Hope and pray it is okay! I have a great record at the moment No illness - No scaly faces - etc . I have learnt over the years to be patient and also too to look at where I am buying birds from - I have a local breeder here and i have stop selling my birds to him as He just looks them over and puts them in with the other birds

 

But It is a personal choice that we choose - I just know that I am making the right choice by putting the Health of my birds first!