Posted May 8, 200619 yr I have never seen a stronger will in a budgie than Chipper. I found Chipper on the ground on the 2nd fairway of the Golf course one day. At the time he looked okay but could not fly very far so I put him in my bag on a very hot day (about 30 degrees Cecilius) We played the rest of that nine holes and I but him in a dark box behind the bar of the club house while i played the second 9 holes. After the game I took him home and placed him in a quarantine cage while I checked him out. What a site. Chipper had scaly beak so bad you could not tell if he was a boy or girl. He had scale on his feet so bad he could not hold on to a perch and he had some deformed and missing toes. He also had a slight case of diarrhea. I treated him for 4 weeks with detol on his scale beak & feet & they healed. Through all this he kept chatting away to the other birds in separate cages. How he survived we will never know. This is a photo just before I let him go in the aviary with other birds. He now has a girlfriend and looks set for a long life. Charlie Edited August 27, 200816 yr by **Liv** spelling
May 8, 200619 yr I can see the remaining effects of scaly face. the beak is beginning to over grow. If you have some calcium perches, they will help to grind his beak back.
May 9, 200619 yr Author I can see the remaining effects of scaly face. the beak is beginning to over grow. If you have some calcium perches, they will help to grind his beak back. Thanks daz I ended up clipping the point off before I gave him some calcium to rub it on. Here is a photo with his new girl April. Charlie
