I notice yesterday that my cobalt baby was struggling and today he looked a fluffed, he still feels a big bird in my hand but his keel bone is sharp. I put him in the hospital cage for warmth and he is sitting under the light so he must need the heat.

I have put him on doxy but my gut tells me to put him on funglin meds BUT I thought I would try the doxy first. He does now have a pooy bum.

His crop was empty earlier so I cropped him with polyaide.

Edited September 3, 201014 yr by KAZ

Maybe he will get better.

 

How old is he?

o know nice baby to best off luck

is he still in baby cage splat

Was Gb until Iput him in the hospital cage, he was hatched middle of June so he is about 11 weeks. This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago.

Edited September 2, 201014 yr by splat

I just want to say...........that I had one like this. he wouldnt eat either and looked like a vulture. Hunched and dehydrated and skinny as. I was crop feeding him morning and night. One time I had a budgie show to go to and I was going to be gone all day. I looked at that pathetic creature and I said.....Okay, if you want to die, go ahead and die.

When I came home that night he was still with us and his crop was full of seed. He has gone on to win Best in Show on several occasions.

I hope the same happens for your little guy. I hope he turns the corner too

He doesn't look thin yet, he is still hand full but that keel bone is sharp as. I got Greg to hold him see what he thought and he agreed . Yes Kaz I hope he comes good.

Here is some pics of my sick boy, sorry about colur. He is much the same as yesterday.

Are you crop feeding him Splat ? With anything other than the polyaid ?

Yes Kaz, Passwell Hand rearing food.

is he is a small area (cage) with seed on the floor ?

 

PS Put some of that egg powder in his formula.

Edited September 3, 201014 yr by KAZ

is he is a small area (cage) with seed on the floor ?

 

PS Put some of that egg powder in his formula.

 

okay , I need some more of that, get my hint Kaz :question:

is he is a small area (cage) with seed on the floor ?

 

PS Put some of that egg powder in his formula.

 

okay , I need some more of that, get my hint Kaz :question:

 

I will bring some over when I come to melbourne in October.

is he is a small area (cage) with seed on the floor ?

 

PS Put some of that egg powder in his formula.

 

okay , I need some more of that, get my hint Kaz :question:

 

I will bring some over when I come to melbourne in October.

 

cool

Well My my bird is DEAD my fault, I am so annoyed with myself , have slamed the doors and everything, I just wished I ahd of left him alone, GOD i hate using that crop needle.

I had trouble getting it in, and so I tried again, I felt it go in right and I fed him but he died in my hands, this happened 2 years ago.

I am off the crop needle again. annoyed annoyed annoyed, I wish I could say something else but I can't.

I don't know what I did wrong because I I have cropped heaps of times.

It must of went into his lungs but he had no bubbles come out of his nostrils, I really wished I had of left him alone he may of made it, he was lively enough, now I have lost a really good bird. :question:

Very sorry to hear this mate. It may not have been about the crop feed. It may just have been him giving up, thats all ........ :question:

No it was the crop I think Kaz because he was lively as in the cage. God I am angry with myself.

No it was the crop I think Kaz because he was lively as in the cage. God I am angry with myself.

hey splat dont let it eat you i too have killed young trying to save them

now i just isolate and lots of seed on floor inch deep in a small cage egg n biskit and soft food my mix

if they live they live if not well that's their choice

weak bird

breeds weak birds so its really a good thing sometimes if you look at it that way

Edited September 3, 201014 yr by GenericBlue

Just like what happened with my baby hen when i tried to splint her splayed legs, ended up BREAKING her leg and had to euthanize her. Feel for ya

Thank you DEan, Yes I know how you felt too.

I have bben so angry with mysel all day, but when I went out to investagate him more hoping he would jump up and surprise me but no he is really gone, BUT his crop was totally empty so I really think he would of died adventually anyway, I just sped up the process.

Saving on the power bill. Well i have to look on the bright side of things

But besides the hen he was the best out of that nest. The whole lo were really good. So I am hoping the 5 in the nest now are just as good or even better

I'm sorry to hear this.

Thankyou Finnie, I was really upset over it for a few hours. Would have to be a good one.

From what I've been reading in the other thread about the downfalls, it always seems to be the good ones

 

At least it sounds like he has siblings with good potential.