My parakeet's feathers are clumped together around his head and his eyes. He has been puffing his feathers time to time and regurgitating sometimes. He has been acting a little strange lately. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with him and how I can treat him to get better?
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They sell a kind of bird medicine at the pet store that you put in the water dish. The thing with birds though is they will hide an illness really well as a sort of defense. Usually by the time you notice they are sick it's best to call a vet. Good luck
As yoho said please get that bird to a vet if you have not done so already. Since you mentioned him regurgitating. Especially since birds hide their illnesses so very well,
Good luck and I hope it is okay!!
I agree, get him to a vet. ASAP.
Birds need water to take a bath with every day, whether from a dish or a spray bottle. Definitely check with a vet to find out what you should be doing to help it.
I once had a parakeet that ate everything from his perch to the paint on the cage, even his own droppings occasionally. Check to see if this could be the case. Analyze your home and habits, especially any chemicals you might be using near him, or if you
Consider particles eaten off any toys or rope you might have hanging. He might have eaten something like rope hairs that are choking/gagging him just as it would a human.
If not discovered/improved in 48 hours, see a vet
or pet shop owner asap. They usually know a vet
who helps them when their pets are ill, and can
share their experiences.
God help and bless you and your parakeet. : )
OK, when your bird 'gurges' it is a sign of affection. He/She is trying to feed you. If you watch birds together, they will feed each other. It's the ultimate sign of bonding. As far as the feathers around his neck and head, as new feathers come in, they have a casing around the base of each feather. In the wild they 'preen' or scrape these casings off of each other. A bird by itself can preen it's own feathers as far as they can reach. They CANNOT reach their neck and head! I would check with a vet to be sure this is the situation and to learn how to preen for your bird. We do it here at the rescue for our guys. These casings can be very uncomfortable for birds. Daily bathing and/or misting is VERY important. http://www.LaziBirds.com
thank you for all the help. no, the birds aren't near a stove or a draft. we make sure to cover the cage at night. we put a water bowl in the cage but they never went in it, so we're trying to mist them every other day or so. no one smokes in our house and we don't fry anything much and we don't use chemicals around them if you count swiffering the floor. we had been working on one of the bathrooms in the house last week and couple weeks before. i heard since birds can get stressed from noise, that that was one of the reasons he was being strange. they are far away from the bathroom, but people coming and going. but i've cleaned the cage since then and it's pretty clean so far. and plus we give them bird vitamins, and it looks like the feathers on his head are growing back and he isn't fluffing his feathers a lot. i'll keep all your advice in mind. :-) thank you.
Our bird started violently throwing up today and then began pulling at his feathers. Does anyone have any advice?
Maybe he's under stress? Anything from the below feedback can be what he's going through. Any chemicals? Too hot or cold?
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