Some of my birds started to wave their tail feathers up down continously , it is more obvius when they spend some effort flying etc...

 

When closely looked , the reason seems to be the ritmic tightening muscles around the vent area , they still eat well , fly well , is this a sign of ilness ?

 

Both females and males do it .

 

Thanks in advance for all the responses .

Its called tail pumping and in most cases can be a sign of illness. You will have to assess each bird on an individual basis. Check them over for weight loss, poopy bottoms and signs of parasites.

if they are with other birds isolation might be handy :fingerscrossed: goodluck and keep us posted

There is a very obvious pumping motion of the brest with each breath and they are stretching their neck , if what I learned is correct the aim of this is straightening their trachea .

 

I guess this is a lower respitory infection , I started a treatment with tetracycline 3 days ago , there is a noticeable improvement on the birds , tail pumping is less .

 

The treatment will continue until Sunday but by the medic , they had diarrhea , I will add

boled potato and banana to their diet .

I just would like to report the status , I had lost 6 birds out of 30 effected , the rest is recovering well , like Kaz said the problems differed in each bird and I have had to learn many lessons as the vets around the city I leave have very minor experience on birds .

 

Now , my medicine inventory covers a wide range of diseases , hope I will not have to use them again .

 

I was not having a separate hospital cage with heating or lightening availability , so I had to begin the treatment in a room temparature of 16 C . Later , when I was able to create a temparature controlled enviorement around 30 C within hospital cages , there happened a real quick improvement , in a few hours they were more active and feeding themselves better .

 

One thing , I was sorry is a lack of crop needle as with this on hand I might had been able to save more birds , never the less I ordered some and will be ready to use in a week .

 

As I said , after bad experience with the vets around , I decided to learn more on the bird diseases , for now , I have no intension in budgerigar breeding , more likely my aim is to keep my flock healty and happy . I stoped the breeding until I feel myself confident in keeping budgies .

 

I will be glad if someone can suggest a detailed book for budgie health problems , their disagnosis and treatment .

 

Thanks in advance .