A friend of mine just emailed me..I'll include the part about the lorikeet here. I need some help as to what she can feed him, what she should do, etc. Direction to any forum/website about fledgling or young lorikeets would be appreciated.

She owns two budgies and her father has experience in handraising baby birds, actually in all kinds of animals..so once she knows basically what to do with him and how old he is then handfeeding won't be a problem.

 

"New prob is that I now have 3 birds and the 3rd isn't a budgie, but a baby lorikeet.. and boy is he quiet but I don't know how to feed him ( I tried suger water in a syringe and it worked)

I need to know which products are best for fledgling lorikeets. Can you do some research for me and ask some people in the forum?

So can you please reply I sooo need answers. He's asleep on my lap at the moment. I'll send some photos soon when he can sit still."

 

I'll post the photos once she sends them. I live about 40 minutes drive away from her..So please, any help as to what she should do, what to feed him, etc. Food won't be such a problem once she sends pictures so I know if he is still a baby and can't eat solids like fruit and seeds yet, I have handraising mixture that can be used for lorikeets, and she could just buy some from the petshop.

Anything she should do now??

If someone can help please reply as soon as possible.

Thanks very much.

Edited March 14, 200916 yr by Jen144

Lorikeet food from vet or petshop they should have like Wombaroo or something. Make sure she keeps him warm also very important.

Questions regarding health and support etc. of other animals besides budgies will be removed. However, feel free to post about your other pets with images etc.

 

I am not going to remove it but the best thing you can do for this bird is get it to an Avian Vet ASAP this is where your best help will be personal in person help will be better then any internet forum at this point.

 

Keep it in a cage, warm, covered on all sides and ring the vet, if the vet is closed run to the store and get lorikeet food as BP advised above and get him in when the avian vet opens so he can be examined for any illness, worms etc...

 

Good luck.

Mix honey water, that is, just to the taste, he will soon go through his body wait in that each day, plus cut apple for him into quarters, gently drag the apple under his beak, most likely hasn't tried that yet! he now has all he needs i believe. Normally they have been hit by a car. I nursed one for a week before he was ready to leave. After two days he started flying to my arm! They love being looked after by a kind person. Good Luck.

So why hasn't the issue about permits come up here yet?

Because we are all scared of DrNat

 

You'll notice I haven't replied yet, my only advice was going to be to take it to a wildlife carer but I figured that was stating the obvious after the other thread

So why hasn't the issue about permits come up here yet?

 

 

maybe because it was assumed that it was a pet lorikeet vs a wild?

Who knows...

He he. I like to stir.

Well for happiness sake I decide it is a pet! (besides if it is snuggled on their lap asleep then it probably is quite used to people).

Or he is too sick.

 

Please, please perform strict quarantine with these guys. Sick, wild lorikeets often have circovirus. It causes 'french moult' in young budgies and hangs around for a long time in the environment unless disinfected properly.

Also watch out for Chlamydia (psittacosis) which is endemic in our wild psittacine population.

 

I'm not going into the registration debate but I urge that if you do decide to keep it, to see an avian vet, keep strict quarantine and watch for signs of sickness.

Because we are all scared of DrNat :happy-dancing:

 

You'll notice I haven't replied yet, my only advice was going to be to take it to a wildlife carer but I figured that was stating the obvious after the other thread

 

I had a good chuckle when I read that.

You could become a wildlife carer and learn to do it yourself, if so inclined.

MB is a wildlife carer.

if the person rings 1800 ANIMAL then they will direct a wildlife carer to come and pick the bird up. The bird needs to be raised as if it's going to be released - which is what a wildlife carer will do.

Or he is too sick.

 

Please, please perform strict quarantine with these guys. Sick, wild lorikeets often have circovirus. It causes 'french moult' in young budgies and hangs around for a long time in the environment unless disinfected properly.

Also watch out for Chlamydia (psittacosis) which is endemic in our wild psittacine population.

 

I'm not going into the registration debate but I urge that if you do decide to keep it, to see an avian vet, keep strict quarantine and watch for signs of sickness.

 

Well. Update. I phoned her today to see how he was going, and apparently she has:

Fed him sugar water and fruit (mushed up) from a syringe. Treated him for mites and fleas.

And then put him in with her budgies!!

She reckoned they would be fine because he probably wouldn't have any diseases because he is young, and he's been treated for mites and fleas so it's all okay. I told her that was a veery bad move and that her budgies were at risk, but it is too late now. What really sucks though, is that one of the budgies is mine that I have temporarily given to her for a joint breeding program!

 

Here's hoping they will be okay...She's decided to keep him (and apparently it is illegal to release a lori into the wild whether or not you found him there in the first place, so she can't just let him go..but it's her choice and her parents are fine with her keeping it.)

 

So yes...when I do get my budgie back what should I do, if he carries/ has FM and passes it to her (and she doesn't catch it but becomes a carrier of it) she'd give it to all my others wouldn't she!!

Anyway, advice please.

Geez...

 

What do you do... She really should surrender it to a wildlife carer... but I won't get into that as others will...

 

As to your budgie. I'd be doing some serious quaratine when you get him back... Extend it to longer than normal, try and cover all bases and hope for the best I guess. Housing the Lori with her budgies is wrong in so many ways... not just because he may be carrying something... ... I'll leave it there...

I would warn her that he stands a good chance of having her budgies killed by a lorikeet. I can't see why it would be illegal for the bird to be re-released, does she know what type of lori it is as there are red and green collars around there.

That was a very bad move on her part. Like others ahve said they lori could be sick and give something to the budgies or it could kill them by attacking them. Not to mention it is not fair on either birds to be housed with each other, they have such different feeding and social needs, and also the fact that these birds are supposed to be breeding too! The babies would get killed >: ( .

Baby animals can get diseases, how does she think babies die? Infact babies are more at risk of diseases because of their immature immune systems. Tell her to separate them immediately, especially as she is putting your pet at risk, which I think is very selfish of her and she is not thinking of your needs. Tell her you will not breed your birds with her birds if she continues to house the lorikeet with the budgies. And when you get your bird back quarantine it.

Edited March 16, 200916 yr by Sailorwolf

Okay thanks all for the replies. I will be asking her for my bird back, and I'll quarantine her (the bird) for double the period of time and be extra careful?

I know, really dumb idea for her to keep them together. She does keep her birds in her room (she has perches along the walls) and their cage has the nest box-with no babies or eggs yet thankfully- and it is only for them to sleep in..though the lori has taken to sleeping in the nest...probably feels safer as it is just a fledgling.

 

Yeah I agree it probably would be a better idea for her to give it a wildlife carer, but she wants to keep it (and she found him) and both her parents are fine with it, so what can you do. It's her choice. I'm not mad at her, she didn't know and I have done similar when I just didn't realize how bad it was. But she really shouldn't have risked it with my bird, she can do it with her own but has no right to risk mine without even asking. Ah well..

 

So you can tell me what kind of lori? Don't quote me on it being illegal about releasing him, that's just what I heard from someone else who rescued one that had been hit by a car (it later escaped) so I'm not entirely sure about that. I think it is illegal becuase they don't want people buying lorikeets and then releasing them into the wild...

 

Edited March 16, 200916 yr by Jen144

I agree with everyone else about the lorikeet. Im not sure what type he is, I just want to say he is very nice and colourful isnt he.

She shouldn't have a nest box for her budgies to 'sleep in'. They don't do that... and by having it there just encourages them to breed, which unless she wants to and is prepared, is also not a good idea... As to the lori... it is a sweetie, but may kill her budgies... they shouldn't be housed together. Tell her that, and then she may separate them, she wouldn't want it to kill her birds.

Oh sorry you don't understand what I said. They live all day with free reign in her room, and the cage is for them to sleep in at night, I'm just saying the budgies and lori aren't kept locked up together in a cage. The nest was for them to breed..

So even in a whole room it may attack them? I just recently saw a picture of someone (could be on this forum actually) who had a lorikeet in with an aviary with the budgies so I assumed that would be okay?

It is not safe even in a whole room. Lorikeets are veryplayful and have very sharp beaks, my lorikeets have actually injured each other just trying to play. Even if it doesn't mean to it could kill or seriously injure a budgie without meaning to.

Maybe you should call 1800 ANIMAL and give her address to them, they will go to her house and ask for the bird.

You would be doing the lorikeet a favour.

At the risk of repeating myself i told you what to do ...the "bird lady of adelaide" gave me that information. If i knew you or your friend was going to imprison him I would not have spoken. Care for him then release. If he comes back ...cool... otherwise radicals like myself will consider those responsible as terrorists!!!

O'k, not terrorists but c'mon, lend a helping hand @ expect nothing...your reward will be ample, your memories forever...

I would warn her that he stands a good chance of having her budgies killed by a lorikeet. I can't see why it would be illegal for the bird to be re-released, does she know what type of lori it is as there are red and green collars around there.

 

We "babysat" a friend's rainbow lorikeets when they evacuated due to the fires. They have beaks like razor blades! She showed me a scar where one of her birds "playfully" bit her finger right down to the bone. There's no way we would have had them near the budgies if they were close enough to bite.

 

On the other hand, when one of our budgies escaped, he was found by someone who said the budgie seemed to have befriended the lorikeets and was hanging around with a flock of rainbows. We did recapture the budgie but he had caught some disease when he was on the loose.

 

I wouldn't take the chance of putting them in together.