Post by clt80 on May 17, 2014 12:55:15 GMT
Hi
i gave a home to a budgie last autumn and took another in from the RSPCA a few months ago and built an aviary. Earlier this week the RSPCA had a young budgie for rehoming so we also took it in, they said it was 3-6mth male. This morning he died. We noticed after we brought him home he had a bad underbite so we took him the vet and got his bottom beak trimmed. We also noticed his poop was sticking to his vent feathers, so my hubbie used a wet cloth to gently remove the waste. This morning he did go to his seeds and nibble, but did have his eyes closed a lot which was not a good sign. A couple of hours later he was at the bottom of his cage. We have just buried him in a box wrapped in cloth in the Garden. I know no one can tell me why he died, but being relatively new to keeping budgies I am hoping it is not something I've done. As I was putting him in his box, I noticed the long thin chest bone (keel bone?) was very prominent, almost as if it had no skin on it, and I'm wondering if my poor Bobby had starved to death due to his beak being trimmed? Has me getting his beak trimmed killed him? Was the poop sticking to his bottom a sign of illness? He could flutter about but couldn't really fly, was he too young and needed his mother to feed him?
i gave a home to a budgie last autumn and took another in from the RSPCA a few months ago and built an aviary. Earlier this week the RSPCA had a young budgie for rehoming so we also took it in, they said it was 3-6mth male. This morning he died. We noticed after we brought him home he had a bad underbite so we took him the vet and got his bottom beak trimmed. We also noticed his poop was sticking to his vent feathers, so my hubbie used a wet cloth to gently remove the waste. This morning he did go to his seeds and nibble, but did have his eyes closed a lot which was not a good sign. A couple of hours later he was at the bottom of his cage. We have just buried him in a box wrapped in cloth in the Garden. I know no one can tell me why he died, but being relatively new to keeping budgies I am hoping it is not something I've done. As I was putting him in his box, I noticed the long thin chest bone (keel bone?) was very prominent, almost as if it had no skin on it, and I'm wondering if my poor Bobby had starved to death due to his beak being trimmed? Has me getting his beak trimmed killed him? Was the poop sticking to his bottom a sign of illness? He could flutter about but couldn't really fly, was he too young and needed his mother to feed him?
