September 14, 200816 yr Teflon??? or household chemicals, scented candles, incense, perfume, vinal, carpet, pain etc etc could have caused it.
September 14, 200816 yr Personally I would go to a vet and find out. I spoke to a few people I know who have larger birds and they all said that it sounds like he choked on something but withou opening him up you will not know. I have heard that they can hide buttons, bits of earing etc... for days and then play with them one time and you have the issues. A lorikeet would not choke. Lorikeets filter through every single thing in their food and suck the juices out but will not eat anything remotly pulpy, solid or fibreous. You'll see even when they eat apples or their wet mix they'll push it around in their mouth and then shake the solid/more dense bits away.
September 14, 200816 yr okay. thanks everyones suggestions. I had plenty of food for him thanks Kaz and Libby. I may be young, but I am perfectly capable of looking after my birds. I have checked his food dish, and it had alot of food in it still. It was not cold in the room. I think he choked on something, thats what I thought from the start. I always research animals before I buy them. I am getting alot more money now, and I ALWAYS have time for my birds! I am homeschooled so that helps too. I think the best thing you can do to put your mind at ease is find out how much a necropy is on a bird like this and manybe you can find out answers if you haven't buried him yet. It honestly sounds like he may have had a stroke but you know I don't know. Anyways....please don't get upset with us many are trying to help with suggests. We know you are upset. Take time to mourn him and take a break from the forum, I did that when Pretty died, I was devestated hugs
September 14, 200816 yr A lorikeet would not choke. Lorikeets filter through every single thing in their food and suck the juices out but will not eat anything remotly pulpy, solid or fibreous. You'll see even when they eat apples or their wet mix they'll push it around in their mouth and then shake the solid/more dense bits away. Huh learn something new everyday
September 14, 200816 yr If you can afford it, I would find out how he died. That way you can put your mind at rest.
September 14, 200816 yr I would disagree with that actually (unless you have some sort of evidence or something), my lorikeets live in a community aviary and are often naughty and steal seed even though they have lorikeet food available to them, they also eat apples and other fruit and vegetables and while some does end up flicked all over the place the vast majority of it gets eaten
September 14, 200816 yr The evidence is at the bottom of their cage. The whole thing is covered in pulp. I don't deny they eat some stuff, but if it's not smooth and can be licked up and easily swallowed they will not eat it. All fruit is crushed then spat back out. In a communal aviary there is alot more space to flick food and disperse of the waste, but in my patio cage i see all that is dropped. - The mandarin from earlier today, all that is left is pulp and seeds. - The bottom of their cage, all that is dropped from apples and anything else eaten.
September 14, 200816 yr They have only been in the communal cage for about a month, prior to that they were indoors so I am well aware of how messy their cage would get, but it was all poop and not much food mess.
September 15, 200816 yr Just because they filter through their food and analyse it before they eat doesn't mean they can't choke. Anything that has a wind pipe can choke! For instance if it was playing with something and got a fright or fell over it could inhale it that easy. That's like saying humans can't choke because they chew their food before swallowing. From what I've heard Bird-paradise sounds like a competent bird owner and she was prepared to take her lorikeet to the vet. She said her dad was calling the vet while her lorikeet was fitting. Get a necropsy done and then you will know. He could have had a heart attack. Parrots get artherosclerosis (plaque in the coronary arteries) like humans do. Especially pet ones as they are not moving as much and eating lots. I think a deficiency in vit A does something in that area too. Strokes work in the same way heart attacks do, build up of plaque causes an infarction to a part of the brain resulting in death. What ever it was it was sudden as it woke him from sleep. He could possibly have had colic, but I think that would have taken much longer for him to die. He may not have been choking, as you described he was breathing at the end. I don't know if birds get them but he could have had a haemagiosarcoma that burst and caused him to bleed to death internally, pushing on his air sacs making it hard to breath. He could have had an aneurysm. All sorts Edited September 15, 200816 yr by Sailorwolf
September 15, 200816 yr Oh I'm sure anything with a windpipe can choke. I'm VERY highly doubting a lorikeet would however. What Bird Paradise has described of what happened to Nitro is a fit. They flap about, head goes back and rolls around side to side, wings flap(pulled behind them also), feet behind them and struggle to breath. I've seen many birds fit from galahs and butcher birds to budgies and each one goes through the exact same process of what I describe a an exorcist experience. They contort themselves into all sorts of positions and cry and do all very sad things It may not have been lack of food that caused it (many different things can cause these fits in birds) But by description is definatly a fit from experience of seeing so many. You did the best you could do Bird Paradise. Once they fit they don't have much time left and there isn't alot you can do unfortunatly I've only ever managed to save one bird after fitting from the numerous birds i've seen have them. So in refrence to yours and your dads fast actions you did the most you could, he was probably too far into the fitting stage to be saved :hap:
