My birds gona die..Help?

Question

my bird is realy fluffed up and it looks like its getting eaten from the outside in. Its butt looks realy bad not cleaned at all and its realy close to dying.Does anyone have any idea why?

And yea i knwo its isck but i check on my animals alot..

Answer 1

Go to the store and get some unflavored Pedia Lite (sp). Warm it up to about 107 degrees and give it to your bird. Just hold the bird and drop a drop at a time at the corner of it's mouth. It will take a few minutes but it is worth  it if you want to save your bird. You should try to get 10 - 12/cc's in him. It needs to be warm because in his state you will rob him of body heat with cold liquids.

Next get a trouble light and a bath towel. Put the trouble light with a 25 w bulb at one side of the cage. In a manner so as not to start a fire. Wrap the towel over the cage to hold the heat from the light bulb on one side of the cage. Leave the other side open that way it can get as warm as it wants or cool also. It needs the heat really bad right now. Go to the pet shop and purchase some medicine like Sulmet and put it in his water according to the directions. Keep feeding the Pedia Lite until you see the bird eating seed on it's own. I always like to give the  some millet spray they. They can't hardly refuse millet spray even when they are sick.

After the amount of time that the medicine says to treat for. (usually 5-7 days) you need to then pick up some Ornabac from the pet shop. This is a product that contains lactobacillious and vitamin B. This will get the good bacteria back to normal in the birds crop and intestines. I make it a habit to give all of my birds this product once a month. You can't give them too much. It just passes through their system.

My avian vet recommends Captain Morgans Spiced Rum at times like yours. Take a shot for yourself and then give the bird about four or five drops just like the Pedia lite, once a day. It will stimulate it's appetite.

I hope this helps. You have to be really observant when raising birds for this very reason. They hide their illness until it is so far gone it is hard for the average person to save their bird. By the time the average person sees that the bird is sick and figures out what to do, the bird is dead or almost dead. A avian vet probably wouldn't have any better success. Then you have went to the vet, spent $100-$150 for a dead bird that you have to come home and have a wake for. That why it is good to read about diseases. You have to be really, really observant and watch how much food it is eating and how much water it is drinking.

Free flying around the house lets our birds get into things that are not healthy for them. I performed a necropsy on a neighbors parakeet. it had eaten a shoe lace and impacted his crop and gizzard. He could eat it but he couldn't digest it.

It doesn't always make sense to run to the veterinarian with a sick bird. Especially when they are small inexpensive birds. I hope that somehow some of this might have helped.

Answer 2

You should take it to the vet instead of watching its butt, and letting it suffer. It probably has a parasite.

Answer 3

Your bird has not been able to keep clean ie.bath etc.and has been attacked by a "Blow Fly" which has laid it's eggs on your birds but,if the maggots have penetrated your bird then there is very little chance of  it surviving.

You should take it to a Avian vet   but if as the above then I am sorry but you will loose it.

Have you tried cleaning  your bird with a solution of Dettol or simular in warm water there may be a chance you could clean and save it.

Answer 4

the vets don't always help

iv'e had mice and rats in the past (pets) and it just makes them worse, because they've been taken out of the surrounding they no and getting stressed.

Give ur bird plenty of water and keep it warm.

Hope it gets better

Answer 5

Take it to the vet not Yahoo answers! DUH!

What is the 911 equivalent for animals? LOL

We need to get this bird in an ambulance.

If they cat suggests that it knows what to do...run away fast LOL

Answer 6

did it eat anything bad? aka maggots anything? have you checked it out to a Vet?