Came home yesterday to find one side of my birds face was extremely ruffled and not looking too good , I observed her and she was rubbing the side of the face extremely hard on the edge of the branch around her eye etc . It didn't look too good so I removed the branch . About an hour passed and she became extremely sick , started to vomit and lurched forward against a branch as she was having difficulty with balance & breathing as well as not opening her eyes. I thought this is it she's going to die never seen her so sick . She hadn't touched her food all day so I got her to nibble on some budgie grass seed and got her drinking water . I didn't think she would make through the night but to my surprise she did so and in the morning I hand fed her some more grass seed , spinach & millet . She pulled through today and started to look extremely good then she ate from her seed dish this afternoon and almost immediatly started to vomit , she ate some more millet & a little spinach and now's she's stablized again . Could it be the seed ? It's the same seed she's been eating from .

 

She was at the vet's for a check up 4 day's ago he gave me some multivitamins for her water & suggested I try and convert her to pellets again as I failed to convert her last time and she suffer's from over weight problems . Soon as I seen she was sick I changed her water back to normal & ditched the pellets . The vet did tell me not to over do it with the Vitamin sollution and I only put a extremely small amount inn .

 

Looking at her now she's pretty good . Weird ?

Don't count your eggs before they hatch.... Budgies are fantastic at hiding the fact that they are sick and will be sick on day and perfect the next but that is on the outside ....

 

In the check up what did the vet do ?

 

Poo swabs, Crop wash?

 

How is the vent looking ...

 

*** I can't believe that all these vets are trying to convert to pellets ***

Which avian vet in Melbourne did you see? I would be surprised if any of the ones I know of are trying to pressure you into pellets.

You didnt put pellets in place of seed and have no seed at all did you ?

Too, This is the same hen that is always sick ... Am i correct in that ? The green one ?

Yes this is the same bird ( Green One ) She's been okay for a couple of months . Vet said unfortunatly my birds on a downward spiral due to her obesity issue's fatty tumours etc etc and will probally crash soon due to her weight & it's about quality of life for her now .

 

The vet's just trying to get the weight off to help her and suggested the pellets over the seed , my bird just don't like em , actually throw's em out of the dish . No didn't just put pellets , put 80 % seed 20 % pellets .

 

I'm just wondering if I made a mistake with the multivitamin powder , ratio is 1/4 teaspoon to 1 litre of water but I just put a few granels on the end of a knife and droppped into the water for now - maybe too much and made her sick ?

 

Any thought's with regarding the scratching the side of her face around her eye , she was doing very heavily as something was annoying her , Ive seen her rub her head before & scratch but nothing like this she looked a mess .

 

Several droppings were nearly all water & one small dark green . Back to the vets see what he suggest's maybe a blood test althou he thinks she will have elevated properties within her blood due to liver problems contributed from her weight .

 

My poor little girl

 

Cheers Toohp

Edited November 28, 200816 yr by toohp

Have you noticed her drinking alot? If she ikes the taste of the stuff she might have drunk too much of it, especialy if she hasn't been eating well.

 

Personally I think pellets are a waste of money, you'd almost be better off rationing her food to a weighed, small amount per day

Mate not your fault at all with the multi vits .... even i have done that when i couldn't be bothered finding the spoon .....

 

She is just a not well bird and has been for quite some time now .....

I agree you must think about quality of life but

There is a point at which you have to say "is the treatment going to be worse than leaving her the way she is".

 

Recently after our elderly beloved cat had a series of strokes the vet informed us that the meat which was her main food was the cause of her stroke because it contained a bad preservative. When we got her as a kitten 20 years ago this was not known and it's only been recently discovered as a cause of stroke in animals fed it long term. The vet advised us that the best thing would be to take her off the meat and feed her something else. However when we tried to take her off the meat she refused to eat anything else and began to loose weight. In the end we had to make a choice between her starving to death or risking continuing to feed her the meat of her choice. We went with the meat, starvation was a guanrateed death, the meat was just a risk...

Apart from some budgie grass Ive hand fed her she hasn't eaten a thing for over a day . She's sleeping mostly now & doing a vomiting movement with her head type thing but nothing coming up . Just one very liquid dropping for all day ,she has been drinking but not excessive , she dosn't look as bad as the other day & she's extremely friendly towards me but I'll be surprised if she pulls through now if she dosn't eat anymore .