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Post by ffiscool on Oct 31, 2021 18:29:53 GMT
Awww love it
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Post by mona on Oct 31, 2021 20:44:04 GMT
Welcome Gwen to your lovely forever home. Be prepared to have a lot of fun.. but don't turn the world upside down for the boys though.. 🙈
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Post by criswell on Oct 31, 2021 20:59:52 GMT
Gwen has really pretty colours. I don't think I've seen a budgie quite like her before.
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Post by Ira on Nov 1, 2021 18:36:27 GMT
She's still not eating. Sometimes if you hold a millet spray to her she will have about 2 bites and then ignore it, is completely ignoring her bowl even when presented with it, and spends most of her time in the cage plastered to the bars rather than even looking for food. I have currently gotten her to nibble a millet bud by putting it on top of my head where she's sitting... There's a bit of a limit to doing that though. I don't know if I'm going to have to break quarantine (knowing that she comes from a healthy, indoor flock) just so the flock instinct encourages her to eat. Theoretically she should come out of her shell, but I may have to spend 3.5 weeks putting millet on people's heads... She feels like she may have lost some weight, haven't weighed her yet, but she doesn't feel super skinny. I dunno. Thoughts? Marianne Marlow Hezz Not really had this experience before.
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Post by ariella on Nov 1, 2021 18:47:52 GMT
She’s gorgeous Ira and I love the name Gwen; it really suits her. Love the video call you had going between her and the boys. Hope she soon starts to eat so you can stop worrying about it. What did she eat at the breeders?
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Post by Ira on Nov 1, 2021 19:04:02 GMT
ariella That's the thing, she'd eat pretty much anything and was actually quite the glutton. She apparently raves over millet. And the breeder brought me some of her food to transition her diet with.
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Post by blueelephant on Nov 1, 2021 20:11:11 GMT
What a horror! Has she ever had the experience of being a sole budgie before? Or was she always with other birds while at the breeders and the pet shop? Can she hear the boys? It's hard to know really what to do for the best. Sounds like you are doing everything right to try and settle her in, same food etc. These little birds do worry us!
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Post by Ira on Nov 1, 2021 20:34:14 GMT
I think she's pretty much always had other birds of some variety around. So currently she's in a strange place with new people and no other birds, so I think she's being extra clingy.
She let me give her a really good scritch with all my fingertips at once though, she's such a softy.
She can hear the boys occasionally when they're calling for food and will sometimes answer. I don't know if maybe introducing one of them would help, and then proceed with quarantine for the pair of them, rather than take the risk with the whole flock. But then she might be uppity about sharing space, and I can't fit anything bigger than the travel cage into the downstairs room.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 1, 2021 20:52:59 GMT
It's really tough to say Ira. How are her droppings? can you weigh her today and see how much she is? She's been with you 4 days, so I would have expected her to eat by now. Has she been drinking?
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Post by jellybean on Nov 1, 2021 21:06:07 GMT
How long can budgies go without eating?
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 1, 2021 21:09:42 GMT
Not very long, but she is eating, just not on her own. How much have you been able to feed her since she came to stay with you Ira? How long can budgies go without eating?
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Post by Ira on Nov 1, 2021 21:27:49 GMT
Marianne Marlow I feel like I could comfortably count the amount of seeds I've seen her eat, and I can't find any evidence of her eating anything else. Though it is hard to tell with the millet spray if that has been picked at at all. She drank a few mouthfuls when I held the bowl out to her. Usually she's more interested in getting on top of a head and then just staring. She ate half a millet bobble whilst on top of my head, so that was a record. I spent ages picking the husks out afterwards. I don't mind having to do that to get her through, despite the inconvenience, but I also don't really want that to become her expectation of getting food. Her poos have a similar consistency to Yuki's first ones when they contain solid matter, which they don't consistently. She's not passing much at all. At least she's keeping fairly still and the room is warm. I have tiny syringes from giving antibiotics to the boys. I would if there's something I could syringe feed her that would at least have some calories in it. Though that's not an ideal solution either.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 1, 2021 21:31:03 GMT
So, if you think she is not eating because she is not used to being a lone budgie and you're sure she's healthy then perhaps your idea of introducing one of your budgies to her might be a good idea.
I wouldn't want her to starve. Which one of your bunch would be a good match for her?
Do you have one that doesn't currently have a best buddy that they would miss for a while?
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Post by skysmum on Nov 1, 2021 21:39:46 GMT
This is only my experience Ira, ive only ever had this problem with Hens. My Evie was the worst, she could get into positions that i thought would be impossible, upside down, inside out all sorts clambering everywhere, along with not eating much.
If she can hear or see the others this will make things worse ive found. I discovered that if i put a new hen in the front room of the house, 2 rooms away from the others and leave the radio on so that they can't hear the others they are much better.
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Post by Ira on Nov 1, 2021 21:52:39 GMT
This is only my experience Ira, ive only ever had this problem with Hens. My Evie was the worst, she could get into positions that i thought would be impossible, upside down, inside out all sorts clambering everywhere, along with not eating much. If she can hear or see the others this will make things worse ive found. I discovered that if i put a new hen in the front room of the house, 2 rooms away from the others and leave the radio on so that they can't hear the others they are much better. She's two floors away from them and can only hear them when they're being their absolute loudest, but I could try drowning that out with something. She's being very slow to come out of the stage of staying in one place, except for the moments when she's begging us to let her out so she can sit on our heads instead. At least I know it's not just her. Thanks skysmumMarianne Marlow It's hard to know about a good match. Munchy currently has a cage to himself and is the least bothered about moving to a new room, but is also the most likely to be bothered by a new bird if Gwen starts following him about. But he also does reasonably well with another bird one on one, such as mutual preening with Indie or sitting with Yuki, and is happy to get on with stuff himself if the other is uninterested in him. Yuki is naturally the most curious and might be okay with being somewhere knew if there's another bird there, but will miss Indie and will be unsettled by being in a new environment. Pippin's a total no-go. Indie might be okay, but it's hard to say. He's okayish with new places as long as another bird is there.
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