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Post by budgiebudgie on Mar 24, 2015 22:02:07 GMT
Bimbo my lovely hen is now about four months old. Still so young. She's been a bit 'off' this evening, although husband says she was bright and very noisy all day (when I was at work). If anything, she seems tired tonight. I've put her cover on and she isn't protesting to come out.
She's doing quite a lot of purring - not just today but on and off for weeks. But she's doing it in particular this evening. It's like a low noise, and it sounds contented, but it could be discomfort or anything. I don't really know. It's like a low rumble. Not unpleasant- but, well, like a purr. Or a kind of gentle growl. Growl sounds aggressive though, and this noise isn't aggressive exactly. It's somewhere between purring and growling and groaning. But again, groan has all sorts of suggestions of pain and discomfort, and I don't think she is in discomfort. I certainly hope not. It's the possibility that she is, that has brought me here.
Can anyone tell me if this noise is a sign of anything? I'd be grateful. I think it might be tiredness. This would make sense. She was off colour yesterday with extremely watery poo, but I think this was because I offered her a saucer of water to have a flap in, but rather than take a bath she drank some of the water - two or three times. Her poo is normal again today, thankfully.
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Post by budgiebudgie on Mar 24, 2015 22:07:19 GMT
She's sat quietly on her swing, which she always goes to before she sleeps. She's slightly fluffed though and looking quite large. I hope she's all right. Her chest seems to be looking big. She was eating quite heartily earlier, perhaps this is why?
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Post by budgiebudgie on Mar 24, 2015 22:12:16 GMT
It's a sort of vibrating noise that seems to be coming from behind her beak. She doesn't move her beak when she does it. Should I worry?
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Post by Hezz on Mar 25, 2015 1:17:17 GMT
No; I answered your other post. I think she is more tired out and resting, rather than sickly. Budgies do fluff themselves when having a kip, often, standing on one leg only and chortling away to themselves. Birds don't have vocal chords like we do; their sounds come from what we call a syrinx, which is set much lower down in their bodies, at the junction of their bronci, the branches that leads off to each of the lungs, and consist of vibrating membranes. We also need our tongue to make specific sounds, but a bird doesn't, so has no need to move its' beak.
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