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| 640.1 | Sorry.... | SOURCE::ADDY | You Gotta Love It | Mon Dec 30 1991 18:05 | 19 |
| I am so sorry about your "Bud"... it really hurts when one loses a pet.
Tissue box here I come...
I have min. knowledge but will share until someone else in NOTES pick
up on this.
First I believe a 'tiel can have a long life.. approx. 20 yrs or so.
I have read in BIRDTALK about female having that problem..which as
you know can result in death...signs I do not know if the weight
was a clue or not...did she seem to hug the bottom of the cage/sit
on perch both feet or one?
Hopfully someone will be able to fill in the answers for you..again
hang in...and someday find another new "feathered friend". They all
need love.
Caralyn
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| 640.2 | Birds in general.... | AVIAN::KIRSCHBAUM | On Wings of Fiberglas and Steel | Tue Dec 31 1991 13:14 | 25 |
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Birds are very tricky, because they "hide" all
diseases very well.
The trick is to watch your bird and know its
behaviour....If they vary that behaviour, take
them to you `avian' vet quickly.
In addition, as soon as you get a bird, you should
take it to an avian vet for a baseline check, so
that they will know when there is a varience.
I have my macaw checked twice a year by our vet,
just on general principals....once for a complete
`physical' and once just for a quick check-up.
Paranoia saves birds....
If you check thru KEYWORDS, there are several
notes refering to avian vets...
But, if you liked the `tiel by all means get
another....
-dick
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| 640.3 | | HYEND::C_DENOPOULOS | Me, ZugZug, Lana!! | Thu Jan 02 1992 18:27 | 15 |
| We had a bird treated for the exact same thing. She had laid 5 eggs
and looked like she was ready to lay another. But days and days went
by and no egg. We noticed that she wasn't producing any droppings
either. We figured she was egg-bound and took her to the vets. He
said it was an infection probably caused by an un-developed egg. We
treated her with medication for 10 days and she's fine now. I guess
the first thing to look for is ANYTHING different. For this particular
problem, the swelling in the abdominal section is very noticible.
WHen you said the bird was gaining weight, it was probably fluffing out
it's feathers to hide it's weightloss. When we first started with
birds we lost one that looked fine, then suddenly died. When it died
and the feathers "relaxed" the thing was as skinny as could be.
Chris D.
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| 640.4 | | 16913::PEDERSON_PA | i got caught in a gravity storm | Fri Jan 03 1992 14:48 | 12 |
| We have a male and female conure residing in the same
cage. We do not want them to breed. I was told that they
will not breed unless there is a nesting box in the cage.
Is this true? Will a female still lay eggs (unfertilized)
without a box available? I wouldn't want this problem to
happen....
They are currently going thru the courtship stage (locking
beaks and shaking to stimulate reguritation) but we don't
want them to mate.
pat
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| 640.5 | ex | SALSA::DEFRANCO | | Tue Jan 07 1992 16:50 | 9 |
| Bird Talk did an article on egg binding and said the best way to avoid
the problem is 1. good diet. 2. LOTS of calcium. Not that this will
solve all egg binding problems but it's a good place to start.
My finches lay eggs all the time even though they don't have a nest.
They also go through a large chunck of cuttle bone each week.
Jeanne
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