My Parakeet died a couple ours ago but why?

Question

I had a green parakeet and It always ate food and drank water. But today when I came home from work it seemed to be acting fine. I saw that there was no food so I gave it some food and I changed its water. Then I notice that my yellow parakeet was just eating and that the green one just stood there above the food canister thing. Then I put my hand inside and it actually let my hold it. It usually goes away or struggles. Then I took it to my room and It started fiddgiting and I thought it was getting better but it would fly, then a couple minutes passed and it starting tweaking and its neck bent back but it was still alive then I picked it up and it seemed fine until it finally seemed like it was doing some heavy breathing and shaking really fast. What could have caused this? My other Parakeet seems normal although now its alone

Answer 1

I had 9 parakeets at one  time ..one just died in the cage one day..... another was sick -took it to the vet & the vet said she didnt know what was wrong with it........she kept it overnight

& gave it antibiotics... I took it home the next day.. she did say

i could spend a fortune on the bird for different testings but that it would be very expensive & not worth it. They pick up diseases like humans, no telling what was wrong with your bird

Answer 2

It can be hard to tell, because birds are very good at hiding symptoms.  Standing over a food dish without eating is a very bad sign.  Do you have any cats?  If so, it's possible the bird was affected by a bacteria present in cats, which can causes the same symptoms.

I recommend you take the other parakeet out of the cage and into something else while you clean the cage out thoroughly, to ensure there's nothing in there to make him sick.  Clean out the food and water dish as well.

Answer 3

I'm so sorry about your bird.  I don't know what might have caused it maybe some type of infection or perhaps old age.  It sounds like you tried everything you could do.