Vomiting Budge

[nessa66]

Hi all,

This is my first post! I joined to seek a bit of advice about my poor budge.

Background: Cookie is a 3 year old female budgie, she's on her own (no friends), and is fed on Harrison's high potency mash (recommended by the vet) with a sprinkling of Avipro (also recommended by the vet). We took her to the vet about 3/4 months ago now since she was always tired and sick-looking with some vomiting/regurgitating and not vocalising. He said that it was likely that this was due to poor nutrition- i.e. picking out only the tastiest seeds (the millet) and not getting enough nutrients. He also gave us medicine for a 'gut imbalance'.

We changed her food and she seemed much better, tweeting, whistling etc.

However, two weeks ago we caught her vomiting - flinging lots of vomit around - greeny sort of phelgmy consistency. After she finished throwing up she looked sad and ill. We took her to the vet, who did lots of tests. Said he was happy with how she was progressing, good feather condition, good poos etc. No sign of megabacteria or anything else. He recommended that we give her a five day course of the medicine again.

She seemed to get better, but today she's thrown up again. She's now sitting on the bottom of the cage, had a bit of a drink from a bowl we put down there and looking sad. Mum reckons that the food is bad for her (i disagree) or it's caused by her eating the sand off the sand sheets or it's too hot in the room.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Should we give her another course of medicine? (There's some left over still)

[Marianne Marlow]

Hi there

Can you post a picture of Cookie?

It may help members help you.

Is it too hot in the room, what us the temperature?

Is she fed any green stuff?

Marianne

[Bird Junky]

Hello A pet budgie needs a good budgie mix seed diet with
a mix of fresh fruit & veg. Hard boiled egg, mashed shell &
all. Iodine block, Cuttle bone & fresh water. Anything the
vet recommends foodwise comes with a present at xmas
from the local sales rep. There are three Vets in my family
so they pass the surplus bottles on to the rest of us.....B.J.

[Rachael Kellett]

Its not a diet I have heard of before for budgies, I would have to look into it but in my belief the best diet for a budgie is a good seed mix, cuttlefish, iodine block, and vegetables and some herbs. You should be able to find a list of safe veg for budgies here on the forum Also sandsheets aren't very good for budgies as they can cause sores on their feet. Sheets of newspaper are the best thing, easy to change and cheap to get

[Rachael Kellett]

Also forgot to add earlier that I have a sick budgie at the moment who has been vomiting and the vet advised me to only give her seed, a millet spray and her water. So no veggies or anything else until she is well

[barrieshutt]

Nessa , all vets promote their own products , all vets think baytril is the wonder drug, all vets cannot take a crop swab, in the first instance of any bird vomiting supply Thrico plus as per the sachet dilution rate, this is one disease that can wipe the stud out , isolate the bird and keep it warm.

Never accept anti biotics from a vet unless the crop swab was taken and an avian vet confirmen no crop disease was present.

The yeast build up in this disease will kill a bird if not treated correctly, anti biotics will feed a yeast infection.

Agood idea BJ , crushed and dried eggshells are used by most breeders in the UK