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Post by luvsanimals2 on Nov 23, 2013 16:40:55 GMT
cant wait to see ur new bird, miss greenley will be happy with other bird. will you be putting them together after the 30 day quarantine?
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Post by Pammy on Nov 23, 2013 18:09:30 GMT
I'm so curious to know how it's going, Kathi! You must be bird shopping right now!
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Post by nvparakeets on Nov 25, 2013 22:13:30 GMT
cant wait to see ur new bird, miss greenley will be happy with other bird. will you be putting them together after the 30 day quarantine? Hi Luvs,
Miss Greenley is ecstatic about Seirras arrival. Totally she is back to her normal "buzz saw" self. You asked if I'd be combining them in one cage after the 30 day quarantine. I have two reasons that I will not be doing that.
When I adopted Miss Beasley and Greens over 3 years ago I did put both birds in the same cage. But after a month or so it became a bad situation. The problem was that Miss Beasley dominated the everything including the toys, food, and entire cage. She wanted to be the center of Greens attention 24/7. Greenley couldn't play with any toy without Beasley attacking her, knocking her off her perches, aggressively. And after Beasley stole the toy, she wouldn't play with it, she'd stalk Greenley to the next toy, and beat her up again. I didn't like seeing that, so went out and bought an identical cage to put Beasly in it all by herself.
From that very day, Miss Greenly was SOOOOOOOO happy. Her behavior did a 180. All Greens wanted to do was play, and finally she could do that without being attacked constantly.
Greenley has thrived living solo. She spends her entire day playing with her favorite toys. She talks, sings, preens and is a HAPPY, HAPPY bird all by herself.
Miss Beasley however, after I removed her from Geens cage kinda seemed desperately depressed. Never hardly played...unable to entertain herself. It was sad to watch, but after a short while she began to entertain herself too, and did pretty good up until her illness began in June.
I do not want to rock Greenley's very happy solo life by invading her cage with another parakeet. She is THRIVING, she's a happy loner.
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Post by Sarah on Nov 26, 2013 0:46:49 GMT
I think that is very wise. I am glad that you have found the way to make your bird happiest, and that you take her emotional state into consideration when making your decisions
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Nov 26, 2013 1:13:06 GMT
ah i see. that is good
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Post by rdkntriker on Nov 26, 2013 1:44:43 GMT
I am happy for you
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Post by sabaton28 on Nov 27, 2013 6:52:28 GMT
Hey sorry to here about Miss Beasley. But on a side note I work at a animal clinic and you say she is still having diaherra. Well antibiotics can cause more diaherra once the infection is gone cause it wipes out all bacteria in the stomach even the good bacteria. She may just need a probiotic to get her back on her feet before throwing more stuff into here.
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Post by sabaton28 on Nov 27, 2013 6:55:05 GMT
Eew. Thanks for explaining. I hope none of us get that. Its possible I could. I work at a vet clinic
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Post by sabaton28 on Nov 27, 2013 7:00:55 GMT
Okay had to ready further into the post. Sorry to her about Mrs Beasley
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Post by Linda mist on Oct 3, 2014 18:04:35 GMT
I have bred budgies for years as I have a large aviary and really enjoy them. I am no expert on birds but have enough knowledge to keep them happy and healthy. I have one male budgie I bred last year, he is now a year old. I noticed him sitting quietly in the aviary about a month ago not chirping and flying around like all the other budgies do. Then he ended up on the floor of the aviary and appeared unable to fly. I spent a few days putting him up on a perch and he kept eating and looked totally normal. Well, I have him inside now, in a cage and realise he is completely blind! I have always disliked seeing birds in small cages as I feel like its similar to a person being put in a room in a wheelchair. After all birds fly and should be able to whenever they want. Just my opinion. He sits silently, eats from the seed container but barely moves. It is very sad to see and I am not sure what to do. If I took him to a vet, no doubt they would give drugs for him to take which obviously would not restore his sight and a huge amount of money for me to pay them. I believe vets prey on peoples emotions with their animals and they know most will dig deep into their pockets to help their pets. I am thinking if someone else has a blind budgie maybe my budgie could live with that one and they could help each other.
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Post by Pammy on Oct 4, 2014 3:25:54 GMT
I absolutely think getting him a friend would be a good idea. If you have other birds out in the aviary, maybe you could choose one that is usually pretty calm and gentle. Also, never move his stuff around, I know we generally do, to provide interest, but in the case of a blind bird, I'd leave everything where he can find it. Will he let you touch him, scratch his head, finger perch? Hopefully you can tame him and provide him with lots of affection. His life should still be a good one.
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Oct 4, 2014 15:32:27 GMT
Oh wow, that is crazy. A friend can help guide him to everything, just watch your flock for a suitable match.
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Post by menageriemom (Cyndi) on Oct 31, 2014 14:36:57 GMT
Hi Kathi Any news about your little friends? Did you get a new feathered friend?
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Post by Dawn on Jan 31, 2024 2:57:03 GMT
Oh my God I was following along with your post because my parakeet also suddenly went blind after or during administering antibiotics for parasites that we didn't even know that she had yet which by the way she didn't by her fecal test. My parakeet is also blind now and doesn't do much of anything and I feel horrible for her. She was given a different antibiotic than Baytril and also has had diarrhea for probably 2 months now. I don't know the cause of her blindness yet so I was trying to follow along your post to see what you found out and then I read the one about how she passed away. I totally broke down and cried for you. I am afraid it's going to happen to me as well sooner or later with my one and a half year old parakeet Trixie. I am so sorry for your loss.
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