One of our Zebra finches was sitting in the base of its cage last night and when i opened the door it didn't move. So...

 

I put it inside in a hospital cage with a 40 watt light over it (although turned the light off as it was warm enough)

 

I noticed it's lower beak was protruding much past its upper beak, so after reading Liv's post on kitch I knew to trim it. I looked up how to do this on a finch site.

 

Unfortunately to get it back even close to the upper beak, it started to bleed, so I got the flour and stopped the bleeding, again info from this site.

 

Anyway about an hour or so after surgery it was feeding itself quite happily and this morning looks as if its back to its old self. It will stay in hostpital today, but if it look okay tonight I'll put it back with the others.

 

Thanks for all the great info on here, hopefully you may have saved a life!! :rofl:

good to hear :rofl:

Really great news and such an accomplishment when you succeed with good info.

In the future a better thing to use to stop bleeding is white pepper.

Edited January 15, 200916 yr by KAZ

Really great news and such an accomplishment when you succeed with good info.

In the future a better thing to use to stop bleeding is white pepper.

 

Thanks Kaz, I knew that but unfortunately all we have is peppercorns in a grinder, so I went for the four instead. Its on the list to buy though. :rofl:

YAY

IM SURE IT will be fine !

Well done Hills.

 

I read your post about what happened and all I could think was "this is what the forum should be for - to teach people how to respond when something goes wrong." Excellent work.

 

Hopefully people will learn what they should do initially, and then what they should so if things go wrong.

That's really good to hear. We are all glowing with pride now

Great news - that is what bbc is for

Cheers all, just to let you know he's back in the normal cage and looking completely better. Looks like he was weak from not being able to feed himself, but today had eaten a considerable amount of millet from one of Ernie & Ozzy's millet sprays and some diced apple while he was in the hospital cage.

 

The only problem is, when he's healthy he's really hard to catch so its going to be task to keep it trimmed.

 

I must admit it was comforting to know exactly what to do at each stage. I think I even made the boys feel reassured that he was in good hands.

 

Cheers

 

Dr Phil

Great!