Feathery Parrotlet  I've had Bruce, a parrotlet for almost two years. Over the past summer he seemed to have been pulling or losing a good amount of his feathers. We tried ...

baby bird pink eye and sneez  i have a baby cockatiel (popet), who is 12 weeks old, since we have had popet he has been sneezing, however a week ago he begain shuting his right eye....

Two conures dead wihin twelve hours, help me understand.  I had a Red Mask and Jenday who were perfectly fine when I went to work yesterday. When I came home for work and the gym welve hours later, they were ...

Sun Conure Wing Twitch  I've had a sun conure for just under a month now, I got her from a breeder. She is almost 4 months old (she was born May 2, 2010). She has this strange ...

lovebird sick?  my lovebird is only about 5-7 months old. he walks around slightly puffed up. our house is not heated and we live in australia (temperature is about 17 ...

Budgie has turned up feathers   I found a Budgie in my garden four weeks ago and she has been very quite. but has now started to scratch and pluck at her feathers her feathers are turned ...

Swelling on B&G Macaw jaw?  I have a 5 year old Blue and Gold Macaw, and I just noticed an area on the back of his mandible below his ears that is about the size of a penny and swollen/...

Goffin with bald spot on chest  Bald spot on Goffin

botulism in duck  i think my duck my have botulism, how do i treat her

Alexandrine Parrot discoloration  I have noticed a discoloration on my Alexandrine Parrot's head, what could cause this? It has happened twice now.

Pet sitting for a Green Cheek Conure that plucks...  Hi, I'm pet sitting for a green cheek conure that has a history of plucking. I've had her at my house for 4 days now and she'll be with me for another ...

Rhododendrons branches safe?  Rhododendrons - Are they poisonous or can birds chew their branches? Thank you.

Help! peachface lovebird sick  my lovebird's tail is bobbing up and down when breathing. and there is a slight swell in the tummy. her stool is watery(excess urine) and sometimes have ...

budgie  My budgie is about three and a half years old. Over the past week I have noticed the feathers around her right eye have been worn away so her skin is visible....

Lorikeet with lame feet  My healthy Rainbow Lorikeet bird has just been given to my parents and it has now gone lame- feet curled up,this also happened to my Brother's bird, same ...

african grey help !"!!  i have a 2 year old african grey i have owned him since he was 3 months old, but the past 2 days he dusnt seem rite, hes playing and talking like his normal ...

cold/virus from humans?  Can my Meyers parrot catch a cold or virus from the humans he is in contact with?

Green Tongue  My pet Budgie has a green tongue at first I thought it could be green wood or dye or something but there's none of that around his cage and he also has ...

Maroon Bellied Conure ate several sand size plastic parts  Hello Avian Experts, My 2.5 yr old maroon bellied conure ate a few little parts from a clip in my hair. They are about the size of sand. It thought I ...

Biting foot  my Budgie constantly bites his foot an I can I don't know why.

Barfing bird  hi my names adnan my dusky headed conure is in perfect condition but hes afraid of being left alone in a room and screams really loud and he or she knows ...

my hen pretends to lay eggs  About a month ago,my Rhode island red,who layed an egg a day,stoped producing eggs. Every day,she goes through the motions of crowing before the act,siting ...

budgie foot problem  My budgie do not exert much pressure on its effected foot.And two claws have no nails..it also seem to be lethargy and week.plz tell me the cause and treatment?...

parakeet harmed wing  i hava 2 parakeets that roam freely in apartment. one has wings cut short when purshased. parakeet flew and harmed wing with box and started bleeding. what ...

my african grey has been picking his feathers  and now there all gone he has a red lump that is getting bigger what can this be?

parakeet has tumor  hello, I wrote in before asking about why my keet that stays on the bottom of cage with very little chirping and so on. I did take her to a vet, and she ...

general maintanence and general question  Hi Doctor
I am 4rom mumbai i want to ask some general quetions.I blow the food husk everyday and feed it clean kitchen tap water,is that ok or i feed ...

Parakeet foot problem  My parakeet is always on one foot and when he walks he tries not to put much pressure on his bad foot. One of his nails looks greenish on the bad foot....

tiel split lower beak.......  My female tiel managed to seperate the wire ring holding her swing & wire pierced her lower jaw & went into mouth. Took her to vet & she was treated; she'...

puffy bird  is it normal for my cockatiel to puff up a little bit when she is sleeping?

Parakeet Acting Wierd!  Hello, My parakeet is 3 years old, and has always been friendly.Would go on my finger, and always be on the perch, and woulden't mind my hand in the cage,...

my b & g started sneezing and his nose has a little blood,   I just bought an 8 month old b & g macaw. He has been with us for about 7 hours. He just started grinding his beak and sneezing. We just looked at him ...

my bird need a medicine   my budjie is always sleeping and it looks tired and don't sings or make a sound , what to do ? is he dying ?


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What shall I do to make a Parakeet/budgie to prevent dying?  My very beloved parakeet just died today and I do NOT want my other lonely parakeet to die.How could I tell if it's sick or if it's gonna die?


~Mina...

African Grey Slightly Bald Underneath Wings  Not sure if this is normal, he has a bit of bald underneath the wings, 'armpit' sort of area. Skin just looks pink not sore.

Help my green cheeks tail seems to be disintegrating  I came home one day and noticed the end of my green cheeks tail was bent and messed up. I naturally thought she got her tail caught in the bars of her ...

Africa Gray questions  Found an African Gray on my doorstep about 3 days ago. It's people friendly and you can feed it by hand. But it seems to have a hurt leg, it won't fully ...

budgies attacking  Hi, I am from Mumbai,India. I have three budgies in the same cage, 2 female and 1 male. The problem is that one female is continously attacking the other....

maintance of love birds  doctor i am from mumbai as u know i had written before i want to ask some general questions i evrytime insert an calcium block and every 8 months i mix ...

Swollen Face?  Today, my cockatiel hit into a window. I thought he was dead, but he just knocked himself out. I put him back in his cage, so he could rest, when he woke ...

baby parakeet that can't sit on perch  My granddaughter is adopting a brain damaged baby parakeet, 3 months old. He cannot sit on as perch and sleeps in his food bowl. Pet smart is giving him ...

sudden loss of toe  My hawkhead parrot's foot was caught in her the loose strings of her tent last week. Today she lost half of her toe. What do I do?

Male Sun Conure becomeing "sexually frustrated"?  Hello i am getting a 4 month old male sun conure. My little sister has a female parrotlet she is about 3 or 4 years old. And i would like to know if the ...

Caique Severe Itching - Excessive Grooming  Hi to everyone,

Thank you in advance for taking time to answer this question.

I have a 1 and a half year old caique and only recently he has suddenly ...

Jenday Conure Tail Twitching  I have a beautiful and happy approximately 18 month old Jenday Conure (called Fish) who is the shine in my world. He (I never got him sexed, but always ...

budgie feather cyst   My 2 year old blue parakeet, Baby has a feather cyst on his left wing by the primary fearthers. His vet has had me put a warm compress and neosporin on ...

light pink and slightly swollen eye rings  Hi, when i went to check on my green cheek conure and my jenday this morning I realized my Jenday's eye rings were slightly swollen on the bottom and were ...

Budgie Disease  Drear sir,
my budgie's dropping is seem to be normal but stick on vent feathers and produce greenish appearence.She has loss of appetite,over growth ...

medicines 4 sick love birds  hi doctor i am 4rom mumbai i have atleast 5 pair of love birds just 5 months ago my4 love birds died in continously 4 days the symptoms were that their ...

strange sound  I have a 6 yr old timneh African gray. He started making some strange noise a few weeks ago. I have not worried about it because he hasn't been acting ...

Male eclectus chest lump.  My 12 month old male eclectus parrot has developed a sack-like lump on his breast. It's quite large, and I only noticed it today when he was in the shower ...

conure losing his tail feathers  I have a green cheek conure that I have had for about 2 months that has lost about 3 or 4 of his tail feathers. He is about 2 1/2 years old and was attacked ...

Disease  Dear sir,
my budgie vent is greenish and her claws nails are long.she is seem to be masticated something in her beak. what would be the diagnosis?And ...

Abnormal feather growth and bald spots on 23 yr old Nanday Conure  I have owned a Nanday conure for 23 years named Larry Bird. His exact age is unknown because he was in my friend's cherry tree before he decided he had ...

Budgee Distended Chest  The bird is acting normal except for a sudden swelling of her chest. What would cause this in an otherwise healthy bird?

crusted skin  my budgie charlie has crusted skin around his nose and beak is that normal?

my parakeet swollen part of the adomen  why does my female parakeet havent laid any eggs yet she is only swollen

runny eyes and nasal discharge  My 7 month amazon has been given Dexametazone , Tobramicine eye drops vor an eye swelling problem.

It also has watery discharge from both nostrils....

Sudden Beak Growth  I have a Love Bird that had a portion of it's lower beak suddenly start growing. The part was between the back of the beak and the tip. An area about 3/...

Red feathers on breast of African Grey Congo  I've surfed and surfed and have yet to find a good explanation for these pink feathers that are randomly appearing on my AGC's front and back. The region ...

my african grey neck has become swollen   i have a 2 year old male african grey. he has just started to pull his feathers out and his neck has started to swell on the right side can you help

parakeet with hurt foot  my parakeet can't seem to bend one foot around his perch. It is not discolored or deformed. The toes stick out straight and he seems unhappy.

Amazon - Bad Day's  I have a yellow shouldered amazon and he (or she) is about 3.5 years old. My wife and I both raised him and he has bonded strongly to me. He normally ...

Bird Poo  My bird has not been sexed yet. Recently she (as we believe she is a she) made a poop that had blood in it. It was almost encapsulated. She had only ...

Baby green parrot attacked by dog  My baby green parrot (about a month old and I'm not sure exactly what kind it is) just got attacked by my little dog (chihuahua size). I checked the parrot ...

swollen love bird leg  My love bird had string tied around her foot from the nesting the swelling went down a little but not all the way there is a black thing around her leg ...

Handfeeding Question  I was just wondering how often a one month old sun conure's crop should empty? I recently had a vet visit in which they told me my bird was at the perfect ...

Feather Loss  We have a Seven year old Kakariki who has lost all his body plumage and only has grey down covering him. His head and neck and tail are unaffected. We ...

Feeding my Ecleptus  I am getting a young ecleptus in a couple of weeks, and have been told to feed him Harrisons lifetime pellet food, high potiency. Is that instead of any ...

Mini Seizure or not?  Hello. We are the proud owners of a peach faced love bird, aged 13 years. Sunny (the bird) has been healthy for a long time. Then, a week ago he had a ...

moulting ?  hello, today i noticed my cockatiel attempting to fly but not doing ti soo well it seems like hes lost his flight feathers on one wing he is moulting soo ...

Gender of Quaker parrot?  How can you tell the gender of your quaker parrot?

why is my lorikeet rubing or scraching his head or pluchuing feathers  do u think its molting its 18 months female

possible tumor  My cockatiel has a growth on left wing- about 1/2 inch around- no blood- doesnt pick at it- took to a Vet and was told I could have surgery done but since ...

Possible actual cause of death in my aged (31 yr old)cocketiel  Around a quarter to one in the morning(7/18/10), I went into the kitchen of my home to grab a snack from the refrigerator. As I passed the cage of our ...

One month old baby sun conure sneezing frequently  Hi, I purchased my baby sun conure from a breeder over 2 weeks ago. He was at the time 2 weeks old and seemingly healthy, he did sneeze maybe once or twice ...

Cooked beans safe for birds?  Please could you tell me specifically what beans are safe for parrots. We have a conure, we have been giving him lima beans, broad beans, green beans,...

Camicide on birds?  My two canaries have air sac mites; something I'm sure they came with from the pet shop. They have both been treated with Ivermectin. I wanted to use the ...

gas bubbles in lorikeet droppings  Hello,
I have a pair of rainbow lorikeets which have been having gas bubbles in their droppings. I have spoken and taken my birds to an avian vet and ...

my female budgie has dark circles  why does my budgie have dark circles around her eyes?

Itchy Peach Faced Lovebird, Blood on Feather  I have a 5 1/2 year old peach faced lovebird. He was hatched from my in-laws birds, so we've had him his entire life. He does not have a cage mate and ...

growth under bird's nostril  my parakeet has just developed a growth on her right nostril? it is dark in colour and is around 2mm in length. it doesn't appear to be affecting her at ...

cockatiel infection  my cockatiel(sunny) has a red bubble on her back and i dont know if it is a infection or if it is just a bug on or in her the bubble is again red and looks ...

hey  my sis droped the bird cage wen she was cleaning and we had a parrot in the cage and it looks like hes hurt on his but. he didn't loose any tail fethers ...

My budgie has awkard vomiting  Name of budgie: JJ
Age: @5-6 months old
Where and when did I get JJ: Local bird shop on 5 June 2010
* We don't have any avian vet here in Hong Kong
...

zebra finch feathers  I have a male zebra finch he is missin feathers right abover his tail under his wings and has white crusty stuff on his beak what should i do?

pink raised lump under my parrots beak  im writing to ask about a pink raised lump under my parrots beak with a black spot on it can hyou help pls

love birds beak   one of my love birds have developed a black patch on its beak, It seems perfectly healthy apart from this, so would just like to know it this is something ...

green urates, eating poop, watery green suronding poop  my cockatiel eating her poop for a while and now has greenish urates and urine sorounding her poop we drove up to my grand parents for the summer on tuseday ...

Pigeon has cloudy small spot on his eyeball  Hello :-) I have a white pigeon with grey spots.His name is Spotty, and I noticed that he blinks his left eye a lot. So I looked at his left eye close ...

Sun conure losing gray feathers  Our 10 year old sun conure lost all her breast and tummy and under her wing gray feathers literally over night. She is totally bare in those spots and ...

parrots male or female?  how can i tell if my quaker parrots is a male or female

Open Chest Wound.  My African Grey, Female, 6 years old fell from her perch onto the tile floor and a small cut was observed on her chest. She stopped bleeding however never ...

Darker chest  Our cockatiel is 16 years old and has been very healthy. I have just noticed the appearance of the feathers on his chest to have turned a darker shade ...

Vomiting in 75 year old Amazon Yellow Head  My 75 year old parrot has been vomiting once every morning. it is white with white seed looking particles in it.

Picking problem?  I have a cockatiel that is about 15 years old. For the last year he has been picking underneath his right wing! Sometimes he will pick himself bloody to ...

My cockatiel has a growth on his wing  Wilbur, my 18 year old cockatiel, randomly fell off his perch back in December and bent a feather out of place on his left wing.

There was no blood,...

Canary with Clipped Toe Nails  We recently clipped our Canary's toenails (a groomer did actually) and now whenever he hops to a perch he falls off of it. He's been sitting on the lowest ...

blood blister on leg  My 9 month old sun conure has blood blister on his leg at joint. don't know how it happened but think my lovebird bit him. the love bird has been put in ...

lorikeet scratching head a lot  i have noticed that my rainbow lorikeet has been scratching her head a lot could there be a problen or is that normal she is other wise happy and active....

broken off bottom mandible  4 days ago my mustached Parakeet's bottom mandible broke,or I should say fell off. (No sign of decay, etc.) There is still about 1/8" left on the bird....

Old Lilac Crown constantly squaking  Our old Lilac Crown has begun squaking for extended periods (hours) during the day. This has been going on for at least a couple of months. She acts ...

Parakeet has runny poop, clusters around bottom  I’ve had my parakeet for a little over 7 years now. Lately I’ve noticed that his poop has been very runny. Sometimes it clusters around his bottom and ...

swollen soft stomach  Could my bird have liver disease? She has been swollen for about 2 weeks now. I have felt her and there seems to be no eggs in her stomach. She does have ...

Canary not laying  My canary hen is 2 years she laid last breeding season this year she has not laid and not even built a nest like she does. I wormed and treated her for ...

Can an external trauma cause tumor/cancer in birds?  My 20-yr old green cheek conure just passed last weekend. He had a very large tumor near liver or spleen that was pushing all of his digestive system in ...

Ringneck  What does it mean if a Ringneck scratch his beak constantly and sneasing what can i do about this?

Parrot Nose Bleeding  My friend adopted an 8 month old blue quaker parrot one week ago. She brought him to the vet to get him checked out and to have a blood test done. The ...

my female finch  hi there i have a pair of little white finches and my female had a small bald patch behind her head (back of neck area)they are in a good sized cage with ...

I Need Help!!  I have an Alexandrian parrot - a female parrot, shes about three and half years old and she has been plucking her tail blood feather since young ,when ...

Caique - Black Rings around eyes  Hi - Firstly, thank you in advance for taking the time to answer my question.

I have a 1 and a half year old white bellied caique; when I first got ...

Budgie face and feather looks scruffy  My Budgie is one year old, and for the past week, I noticed the top of her head seems rough and her feathers are sticking out and looks like sticks, and ...

One of 2 pet budgies died - we're worried about the other one!  Four years ago we bought a pair of baby budgies, a male and female. 5 days ago, the female died and we're not exactly sure why. She displayed no symptoms ...

Bird mites!  I just got two pairs of zebra finches two months ago. The birds all share the same cage. One of the females has a bald spot right above her beak. And ...

CITRON COCKATOO WITH A BALD SPOT ON HER FACE  I have a 9 year old female citron cockatoo. Shes always had great feathers and no plucking problem. she recently started molting. she has had so many new ...

Lethargic 13 year-old parrotlet  We have a 13 year-old parrotlet with an enlarged liver as seen on an x-ray. Our vet or we are not willing to get more invasive to find out the cause, so ...

Twitching feet  Hi, My budgie (girl) has just started this evening making a twitching motion with her feet. Its as if she is lifting each one up and contracting it in ...

Trying to feed his owner  I have an African Grey that I recently inherited from a family member and over the past couple of days he has been trying to feed me everytime I attempt ...

Budgie Constipation  Hello, about two days ago I noticed my five-year-old budgie showing signs of constipation (constantly puffed up, picking and scratching at his vent with ...

Lovebird liver problems  My lovebird was diagnosed a little less than a month ago with having liver problems, my avian vet took some liquid from my bird's belly (cause it was enlarged)...

4 month old indian ringneck with swollen vent  I have a 4 month old Indian ring neck (hatch date Feb. 1 2010) I got him 04/26/2010 I have had him for about six week now. and this morning I noticed ...

Sudden change in behavior.  I have two Lovebirds, one Fischer and one Peach Faced... siblings. Given to me last Christmas as hatchlings, we hand fed them, and they've been great ...

Unformed eggs and passing of blood  OUr 4 year old cocktiel laid what appeared to be an unformed egg in a stream of blood a couple of days ago. Today she has passed another stream of blood ...

will my cockateil die if I take his mate away  I have a cage at my house with two cockateils in it one is my friends and one is mine she wants to take one of them to her house and they are really attached ...

foot fracture, bruise  I accidently stepped on my parrot while shaving and didn't know he was there. He made a loud screech. Nothing seemed to be broken except for my heart....

Parrolet switch to pellets  I have taken your advice and is in the process of switching my parrolet over to pellets. i don't want her to starve BUT...it has been a week and she is ...

My friends former pet died. Wanna know the cause.  Hello what does it mean when a Zebra Finch loses its feathers and develops pink bumps on its skin? What could be the cause of it?

Flem from mouth  I have a green cheek that has never traveled nor has ever had flem come from mouth. She is 3. I drove her to my moms and on the way, yellow flem was forming ...

Sunday Conure bald head, bottom, and legs!  I have a Sunday Conure. I am not sure of the gender. When I purchased the bird from a breeder, she clipped the wings too short, so when the bird would ...

canary pulling out feathers and his eye is like it is infected please help  hi i don't really no much about my 8year old daughter was bought 2 male canarys for christmas as a present. at first they were fine but recently they have ...

both nostrils blocked in my cockatiel  hello, i recently noticed both my cockatiels nostrils are fully covered over, it looks like the skin has grown over them. He is still eating and whistling ...

conversion chart  i am just wondering what the cockatial to human years is

Improve Feather quality in Umbrella Cockatoo  My Cockatoo Taz is 6 months old. He eats well and spends a lot of time outside the cage. However I feel he is not as healthy as the other cocokatoos I ...

Wall paint safe for birds  I have bought a house and it needs painting. I plan to paint before I bring in the birds (parrots). Is there a paint/brand you would recommend that is ...

Lathargic male parakeet  My Male parakeet (blue nose) has been lethargic but still has a good appetite. When he's not eating or drinking he's on the bottom perch quiet sleeping ...

can't seem to keep feathers on body  Hi, I have had a blue parrolett since it was a baby about three-four years now. In the last year, she continues to appear like she is molting. her feathers ...

hen that is not eating or drinking, what should I do?  hen that is not eating or drinking, what should I do?

Cockatiel with paralyzed legs  We have had our cockatiel, Sheila, for 12 years. She is very small, about 75 grams when healthy. She is not a cronic egg layer, but she did have egg ...

Indian Ringneck Parakeet balance problems  I have a Indian Ringneck who is between 25 and 30 years old. She rarely sits on the bottom of her cage but has chosen to do so for the past few hours. Along ...

toucans  Can toucans survive in a non-tropical environment

small red bump  My 14 year old Blue and gold macaws has devloped a small pinkish red bump in the white part of his face. He has no other symptoms but it still worries ...

Closed eyes and loud breathing??  Hi, I have an eclectus parrot that I am worried about. About 3 days ago she was vomiting, she ate very little, her droppings were dark color and both ...

My Canary still not singing  I have a red factor canary and he has been molting since the end of February. It is now May. He still has a few white needles on his head which I believe ...

Red belly parrot  my red belly parrot spits up every once in awhile what causes that

Hahn's Macaw possible PDD?  I wrote in recently about acquiring a 5-6 year old Hahn's Macaw. I have brought him in to the avian vet for an exam and he was tested for PBFD, Polyoma,...

sick parakeet  hello, I have a 5 years old parakeet who lives with a mate (mate is healthy). for last month he became quite sick. he looks tired, always sits like a ...

Kill termites and wood ants, but safe for birds?  We need to do something to kill the termites and wood ants in our house. What is safe to use? We are told we need to spray in the attic and outside, then ...

squeaky breathing  I have a budgie about 8 yrs. old. Lately she has been squeaking while she flies and sometimes when she's just sitting but at night,periodically, I hear ...

rainbow lorikeet (Chester) has a lump near his bum.  There is a lump under my rainbow lorikeets body near his bum and a little to the left. Just wondering if they can have a egg stuck like budgies can, or ...

can you breed a severe macaw and a yellow collard macaw togather?  just wondering if you can breed a severe macaw and a yellow collard macaw?

Conure with dislocated leg  I was recently made aware of an injured conure through a posting on a classified listing site. The owner stated in the ad that her bird was injured and ...

Ill Lilac Crowned Amazon, sudden feet paralysis, not eliminating  Our lilac crowned amazon, who has been completely healthy for the past 22 years started sitting on the bottom of her cage Friday.

She suddenly lost ...

Pigeon is at the vet   Hello :-) We have a flock of piegons who come to our backyard every day and we feed them and give them water and seed and we love them a lot. A few days ...

Tempurature  We just bought a huge cage to put on our screen porch so our Senegal parrot can enjoy the Spring & Summer. We cover him up at night, but I worry that ...

Stool stuck to parakeet's underside  I'm wondering if the bird is sick. He has stool stuck to her underside. She seems to be eating fine, but never drinks much water. She puffs up alot and ...

pigeons eating dust?  My pigeons eat lots of dust particles, cement and they even start pecking in the garden. even their droplings are very watery, their cage is also wet all ...

A grey pigeon who doesn't seem well  Hello, how are you going? A while ago, my white dove got a bacterial infection and then he disappeared half way through his course of tablets :-( Now I ...

Peach-Face Parrot - small white growth on edge of beak  We have a peach-face parrot. He has been very healthy to date and is around 5-6 years old.

Just this week a small white growth appeared - this is located ...

Bored with food  I have a 5 month old male quaker called Bailey. I have recently noticed that he has started to eat less and less of the food he is given each day. He has ...

Bird Foot Chewing  My bird has started to chew his foot. He will take it and shake it and pick (what I think is skin) off and it's swollen at the joint and just started this....

small bump on caiques upper eyelid  My 1 year old caique has a pink bump on his upper eyelid, and I have been reading around that if your bird is on an all seed diet it may get this, Sammy ...

Baby budgie with splayed leg  Hi, how should i treat a 3 week old baby budgie with one splayed leg ?

Broken leg  My Ring Necked parrot has broken his leg what to do with him.

Panama amazon doing really big poos  Hi I have a amazon, she is 8 years old and I have had her for that time, suddenly this week she has started to do really big poos, as big or bigger than ...

african grey hen has a lump under the skin below her cere  hi my african grey has a lump under her cere its not open its under the skin and i cant bring her to the vet yet as she is sitting on eggs but its seems ...

Swtiching Harrison's Types  My Sun Conure was originally on High Potency for about six months, but when we bought a new one, they only had Adult Lifetime. I'd like to switch him back ...

Sudden behavioral changes in my Green Cheeked Amazon  My Green Cheeked Amazon (Mexican Red-Headed Amazon) recently terrified me by acting bizarrely, suddenly out of character. He was sitting calmly on the ...

about my b&g macaw  i have got a nine month old blue and gold macaw and i have noticed that the outside bit of its throat looks a little bit red what could it be any answers...

cockatiel stops talking  Hi, I've had a male cockatiel since he was 2 months old. He's now just about a year old. He had been talkng for about 7 months. Just a handful of words ...

lovebird leg paralysis  Hello, I have a peachface lovebird and lately (I noticed this 2 days ago) his legs got paralysed. It happened practically overnight, I didn't see any ...

animax for sun conure  i would like to know if you should prescribe animax/panolog for a sun conure

Sun conure vs. mouse..  Can a mouse get into the bird cage and actually hurt the bird? Would the bird try to defend itself against the mouse or is he a sitting duck?

broken leg sunconure  my sunconure had broken his right leg within a few days of this i had got the leg set the splint was on for 2weeks. will his leg ever be the same again ...

Fungus   My bird (lovebird) was adopted from our bird club he was very sick when we got him and no one wanted him so my husband and I took him. His nares are huge ...

What does this mean? Lump  My female budgie has a lump under her belly and near her but. What does this mean?

shock, fungus possible  I work in a pet shop and I'm concerned about a cockatail that has been in our care for two weeks. He is the sweetest bird ever, until about a week ago ...

Diamond Dove losing feathers around neck  Hello, Thank you for any help you can provide my family. We have recently purchased two Diamond Doves approx. two months ago. Today we noticed that ...

there is a bald patch on my female zebra finch and it's a bit green.  My female zebra fich has a bald patch around her back and neck.it'a little green. what should i do. i put a mixture of clean water and aloe gel on the ...

there's a red bump on my parakeets foot  My parakeet bit my other parakeets foot and then this red bump showed up. I'm not sure if i should be worried. should i or will it heal??

Pigeon has feathers missing on neck  Hello, how are you going? :-) We have a flock of pigeons who visit our backyard every day, and we feed them and give them water and love them all a lot....

Pinkish bump on Parakeet's base of tail  My parakeet has a rather large bump on the top side of her body, near the beginning of the tail. She's been seemingly fine for the past year that she ...

Parakeet red right nostril  Hi, I noticed that my parakeet seems to have something red-ish in his right nostril, it doesn't seem to bother him much but he hasn't been as energetic ...

Abscesses on legs and wing  I would appreciate very much if you could provide the diagnosis (or the best possible guess) and regimen (instructions of treatment) based on the attached ...

Female lovebird has seizures  my lovebird has always been with her mate. now i watch and her seizures tend to be more when she goes to bottom of cage and the male wants to get on her....

Motion Sickness  I have a 7 month old umbrella cockatoo who gets car sick and always throws up. Each car ride, he is now throwing up sooner. Is there any medication I ...

pulling out feathers  why is my ringneck baby +- 7months old pulling out her tail feathers, she has a large cage, she has toys to play with we put the radio on for her during ...

My new white dove is doing really well. What's the best things to feed him?  Hello, how are you going? :-) I wrote recently about my new white dove who came to me from an animal shelter. He was abused terribly by his previous owners....

bondi, parakeet, won't sit on eggs  Our female parakeet, 1.5 yrs old, has been breeding daily with our male parakeet, 1.5yrs old.
Bondi, female, has laid 2 eggs in 3 days.

She will not ...

sneezing green check  my one yr old green check sneezes every once in a while, big wet ones. nothing around her nares are are any different then they have always been. and she ...

Baby Green Cheek Conures have lumps on beak  Hi there, I have two baby green cheek conures (5 weeks old) that have a little lump of skin on both sides of the base of their beak. Both the babies have ...

Golden Sun Conure feather plucking mate  I have a breeding pair of Golden Sun Conures. The male Sunnie is being plucked by his partner. They are currently sitting on 3 eggs and cannot separate ...

sudden death of my conure  2months ago my jenday conure died he was 10. he was on top of his cage on his play gym i noticed him breathing hard then it became slower and he died on ...

biting  I have a 10 year old Timneh africian parrot. She has always been social (she is often out of her cage more than in her cage).
She has starting biting ...

Sun Conure Laying Eggs  I have a sun conure with a mate, and she has just laid her 3rd egg which is normal for her . I noticed that this time when she's sitting on her eggs she'...

please help hurt cockateil  My wife was getting our cockateil food this moring and left his cage open and he got out. I didn,t know she was feeding him and he flew into the living ...

Goose with broken beak  Dear Sir/Madam

Our goose broke the tip of his bottom jaw off on a fence while attacking a straying dog.

He does not seem to be able to grip the tips ...

Cold Food  Is it dangerous to feed adult birds their cooked food directly from the fridge? They seem to prefer it cold rather than room temp. My sun conure loves ...

Little Fluffy Feather on chest  I have two quakers in the same cage. They both seem to get along fine, however, one of them has a little bald spot on his chest. I have seen fluffy feathers ...

Diet: question:  I run an a small parrot rescue out of my home and a good 90% of the birds that I see come in with a completely messed up diet. None, so far have ever really ...

Broken and bleeding legs of a parrot  How to treat an broken legs with bleeding of a parrot?
Can we use human antibiotics(beta dine cream,etc)?
Which other antibiotic should be used for such ...

Sun conure hurt :(  I have a sun conure, i found it bleeding in the feet day before. It has a broken finger and i leg dispositioned. I belive either the cat or mouse hurt ...

Green wing macaw- breathing  Hi there, I am an 18 year old girl and I work at a pet store and a few days ago I found one of our 9 month old sun conures at the bottom of his cage on ...

indian ringneck quiet  I have a 5 month old Indian Ringneck! the guy told me he was a male, but he hasn,t got the ring on its neck so i take it its female. I feed him fruit and ...

Skinny Cockatiel   My cockatiel has all of its feathers, it eats fine, is about 7-9mons old, it has some problems whistling, it walks really slow as if it had no strength ...

Parrot Feather Condition  I recently was given a 4 year old parrot who is a chronic plucker on her stomach only. Her stomach only has her white undercoat which she doesn't mess ...

Redness and Feather Loss  I have a Pionus and she is 4 years old. About a week ago it started getting red around her nostrils and it quickly spread to the skin around her eyes. She ...

my parrots tongue  i noticed today my african parrot has a red area at the back of it tongue. He seem well in himself and eating normally

cockatiel pimple on where beak meets cheek  There is a little fleshy looking pimple where my birds beak meets her cheek...and it's getting bigger, do you know what it could be?

parakeet with bloated stomach  What does it mean if you have gotten a new bird and it looks as if it has a bubbled or bloated looking stomach?

please help me!!  My parakeet has long white things growing out of his legs and around the sides of his beak what is wrong with him what can I do?

34 year old blue crowned conure may have tumor?  Hello,
Flapjack, our 34 year old blue crowned conure has been in our family since my father purchased him as a baby from a pet store. He was born in ...

green cheek conure strange behaviour  Hi my Crimson Rosella died 3 days ago, I had only had her for a month and ever since she passed my green cheek conure has really changed. I also have a ...

Scaley Face Mites  I have 7 parakeets with scaley face mites, to take them all to the vet i have to pay $45 for each of them and that is not including the medicine. I need ...

Head tremor  My parakeet does this really odd thing with her head when she is close to my face. She will have the head tremors, looks like she is shaking but only her ...

Budgie has swelling on tummy and back  Pet caged budgerigar approx 3 years old has developed large swelling on front of tummy and back. Tail feather is constantly positioned downwards. Bird ...

quaker parrot bleeding  do birds have periods if not why would she have blood on her behind

feather loss  hi, my 4yr old African Grey (m) is always bald at the back of his neck, you cant see his skin , but his long feathers are gone leaving like soft down underneath....

my congo african grey started plucking her feathers!  hello, I have a female congo African Grey "Obbi" which is 5 months old, she started plucking her feathers under her left wing.What should I do?

Parakeet  I've had these two parakeets and one recently dies. The other i noticed that it has a huge swollen belly and no feathers there or around its butt. It is ...

African Grey no feathers around eyes  I got a 14 week old african grey today I am a little concerned about the fact that she has no feathers around her eyes. I was thinking maybe a plucking ...

xylitol safe for birds?  Is the sweetener xylitol safe for all birds? (Appears to be safe for chickens) I'm specifically interested in feeding xylitol sweetened foods to corvids-...

Runny cere, rapid loss of feathers under wings and around the cere  I am pretty sure this is an emergency, but I live in a small town and cannot find a bird vet. I tried contacting one of the general vets here, but they ...

bumble foot gangreen?  i have a baby cockatiel that was always a little clumsy and would fall out of the breeding box i had placed for its parents, so one day i woke up and saw ...

bald patches in green cheeked conure  i recently got a green cheeked conure who i was told is 2 years old.When i got him he had downy feathers on his chest which are still there with no sign ...

Reason for male lorikeet's death.  My male rainbow lorikeet of about 2-3 years just died on Friday night but we don't know what had caused it. We found it lying at the base of the cage but ...

Sneezing crusts  I was playing with my 8 month old male budgie when I realized it had crusts around it's nose. While I was examining him he did a wet sneeze in my face....

wing holding  I clipped my budgies wings by myself. I clipped the first six feathers and did it all correctly. But now my budgie is holding his left wing up and seems ...

african grey not drinking water  Hi ive just got a pair of african greys and they dont seem to be drinking any water is their anything i can do

ive had the pair for two weeks now

cheers...

african gray hen   hi i have noticed over the last few weeks that my african gray hen has a bright pink bottom thats open a bit iv seen this as shes going in to the nest ...

Rainbow Lorikeet with a swollen and split tongue  Hi, We are feeding some Rainbow Lorikeets apple on our balcony. One of the regular ones appears to be having trouble eating and it looks like it has a ...

Returning a conure  If I return a green cheeked conure to the pet store I purchased it from within the 14 day return policy, will the conure suffer any emotional trauma? I'...

Foot biting  My Quaker has always been an energetic naughty bird until recently he has been biting his feet till they bleed, now he's just like a cute stuffed toy puffed ...

my parrot is starting to pluck feathers  Hello, my African Grey has started to pluck some feathers.I see it sometimes put his head under his wings and start to pluck, but only the really small ...

wheezing lory  I have an 11 year old rainbow lory. He is extremly active and has a great appitite , His stool seems normal and he seems to be in good health, but I notice ...

bald cockatiel  my cockatiel has a bald patch on the back of his head and has dry skins on the back of his head

how an I know if my grey african is sick?  My grey African who I just bought this week was always playing and shouting until today, he just shouts when he wants some food. and he isn't eating when ...

Timneh Grey - Standing crouched trying to look flat  Hello, I've had my bird 22 years and I've never seen him do this: He's crouched on his perch with his wings out slightly, he looks like he is trying to ...

something is wrong with my canary elphie  on 3-13-10 she was almost eaten by my cat and she started pooping clear then it went back to normal the vet said she was okay but she wont sing anymore ...

Parrotlet diarrhea  Hi my parrotlet has recently developed a diarrhea. I haven't changed her diet and she feeds on a seed based diet. I change her cage frequently, has fresh ...

hepatomegaly due to AL intoxicity  my AGP was recowered from AL toxicity but his liver have some degree of enlargement.please help me what i must to do?

My tiel has a bald spot on her head and the skin is very red!  I took my tiel into the pet store I bought her at to have a routine wing/and nail trim. Her nostrils had been very dark/black for a few days, and I tried ...

dodwn feathers  I have a blue and gold macaw who is 8 years old. In the last week or so he has really started looking like crap. I shower him often but not so much in ...

foot sores   My Grey Cheek parakeet (55 grams) tends to get sores on the bottom of her feet. I have changed to all rope perches of various sizes which are replaced ...

my chicken  my chicken has a bald rad spot by his butt what should i do.

crusty area at corners of beak  My blue ringneck parrot "Sky" has crusty areas at the corners of her mouth. what causes this?

My new Parakeet is not doing any activity  Hi, I got 2 new parakeets. I have all sorts of toys in their cage. Its been 2 days and I cant see them playing or doing any activity. One of the parakeet,...

anti-biotic cream safe for cockateils  My lutino cockateil that i just got about 6 months ago is scratching her eye to the point where it bleeds. I give her lots of baths and it seems to help ...

To pluck or not to pluck  My african grey seems to be in an alful long molt - going on 3 weeks. Also seems to over preen himself at times. He gets about 2 "heavy" spray mist every ...

cockatiel leg amputated  hello, last night my cockatiel had a night fright, dont know why but he lost all of his flight feathers from his left wing. He then tryed to fly out ...

Rainbow Lorikeet  I have a fantastically friendly and energetic Rainbow Lorikeet who'd about 3 years old. He's always happy and energetic and seems very healthy except lately ...

cockatiel   why my cockatiel opens hes beack like hes gasping for air

Strange Sound.  Hi i have an Alexandarine parakeet couple, today i fed them with tomatoes they ate it very anxiously and after four hours of eating they started making ...

Warm food transition to cold food and egg laying  "I have an 11 year old Umbrella Cockatoo that I rescued. She bonded to me immediately. She was on a poor diet and a feather plucker. I have changed ...

scruffy, disheveled feathers on blue-headed pionus  I recently adopted a 6-year old female blue-headed pionus parrot. She came from what seemed to be a knowledgeable home, where she had been one of about ...

Falling off perch in sleep  Our rainbow lorikeet has recently started falling off his perch while sleeping. also as of late it looks like he's mis- judged the small leap from his ...

Why did my parrot die?  I found my parrot at the bottom of the cage in the middle of the night. He was fine the day before, eating normally and drinking water. I am very careful ...

Concerned about my birds beak  I have a two year old female budgie bird.She may have mites or a fungus and it's affecting her beak.Her beak is growing improperly and is crusty.There'...

Sick Bird/ Treatment Ideas?  My bird is puffed up and appears to be breathing heavily. I have put a heat pad over her cage and changed her water and food. I didn't know what this may ...

Paper shredding  My B&G macaw lately shreds the newpapers lining the bottom of his cage - why? Never did it before. He is about 15 yrs old.

My Lovebirds legs aarent working anymore.  Hi, About a week ago, I noticed my lovebird (Roadrunner), holding up one of his legs. It was almost as it was paralyzed. I picked him up, and he didnt ...

parakeet  why would an older parakeet walk with a tilted head and stay on bottom of cage?

Green Quakers Parrots Beak and my Conure bird??  I was wondering?
What is the cause of a green quaker parrot's beak that is growing fast?
I might be getting that kind of bird from someone and would ...

Does my bird have a tumor or is preganet?  My female parakeet's anal area/ lower belly has been enlarged for approximately six weeks now. It seems to be a pinkish color and dry. However she is very ...

nose bleed  Also, he is a very picky eater. He generally eats mainly "junk" food (the seeds) and pushes his pellets out of his bowl. Could the deformity and nose bleeds ...

nose bleed - nanday conure  We have a Nanday Conure. The bird was purchased in May 2009 and is just over a year old. He appears to have a deformed nostril, the left is a lot larger ...

I got two love bird and I think they are sick.  One love bird (Lucy) puffs her feathersoff and walks sluggish. She, churp to making a purring sound and it to quit. I've notice red spots on the gold ...

my lovebird is idle  hi, i brought home a pair of love bird.the male is very active however the female just sits with her head turned back towards her back and puts her beak ...

Elderly nanday with swollen ankle, arthritis?  Okay so i just rescued an elderly nanday from an old couple that are having health problems of their own.

The bird is alert but walks funny, has a ...

Twitching Baby African Grey  My African grey that I just bought is 3 months old and I noticed that he is twitching his head almost every 10 seconds . Do you think it is a normal reaction ...

Parakeet Lost Flight Feathers on One Side - should I clip the other?  Hello, I recently boarded my parakeet during a molt and when I picked him up, I found he had lost all of his flight feathers on one side. I read that ...

Cockatiel losing lots of wing feathers.  Hi, I've had my cockatiel, Dusty for 9 years now and just at 4 am (Which was about half an hour ago as I'm typing this) I woke up to hearing him fall in ...

parrots cause MS?  is it true that birds can cause or carry multiple sclerosis?

ringneck flying awkwardly, seems confused  Today I came home and my female ringneck was exhibiting odd behavior. She is usually an excellent flier and very alert (not hand tame at all), but today ...

Drinking Water  I have a 10 month old Meyers parrot. I used to see him drink when we first got him, especially in the morning when he ate his breakfast. Now I almost never ...

My Sick birdy! Please help! I love her!  My pet Zebra Finch is all fluffed up. She is losing feathers under her wings and her skin is red and blotchy! Please help! What should i do??

My bird had a red bump on the cere  My parakeet has a small bump on her cere and it was not on it yesterday. It has a crust in it and I think that she kinda got hurt on something. If you ...

Attacking Conure  My friend recently gave me her pet conure because she was attacking her. Now she is attacking for no apparent reason. I can see her pupils become enlarged ...

ways around Goffin Cockatoo mating behavior  I have received advice in the past regarding how to avoid parrot mating behavior. We never had the problem with our African Grey but we now have a Cockatoo ...

Sick African Grey  Hi, I recently took in an African Grey. The previous owner told me he is a plucker. Soon I realized though that the bird is not actually plucking his ...

cockatiel chirping  what is wrong when my cockatiel will not stop chirping and not close its mouth

Death of 20+ year old Amazon  My female Amazon died suddenly and unexpectently on Sunday. She was fine all morning - then flew off her cage, landed on the floor and fell over - I immediately ...

Food from craw chest  15 year old cockatiel has food coming from his chest. What can I do?

Lutino Ring neck parakeet lost her voice  I have a lutino ring neck parakeet about 4 or 5 years old that suddenly seems to have lost her voice. The bird has always had a high pitched rapid squalking ...

my parakeet white flakes  he scatching and white flakes r falling

how to take toby to the vet  hello there its me again ok im taking toby to the vet on tuesday but how?? because i dont have a travel cage and the cage his living in is to heavy to ...

tail feathers skewed, limping..   Yesterday morning my YN Amazon bit my thumb, I dropped him.. he fell to the floor, I immediately noticed his tail feathers were off to the side. When I ...

sits in the same place all day mostly with his eyes shut  my parrot has gone quiet still talks but not as much and he's not as lively. he tends to sit on his perch in the corner off his cage with his eyes shut ...

Cocketiel looks ruffled and hunched back much of the time  My female cockatiel looks puffed up and often looks like she has a hunchback, even tho she can then look smooth and sleek. Her dropping is very watery....

6mnth old African Grey parrot, lost use of one led and is limping  hiya, I have an african grey parrot, and i noticed she starting to tilt to one side and began walkingweird, so i took her to an avain specialist in bedford ...

Low-e and Argon Gas windows  I am considering replacing several windows in my house. I have 3 parrots located close to 2 of the windows with plants in front of the windows to provide ...

my cockatiel has an itchy butt  just today our cockatiel started scratching his pooper on the bars of his cage. we left to go have dinner at a relative's and he was STILL itching it! we ...

my budgie is wheezing  Hello their my s not dangeriouslyill atleast i hope not... ok first i will talk about why i didnt take him to vet yet my parents said its very cold outside ...

Injured parrot/love bird  I would be grateful if you advice me how to treat the injured leg of female parrot/ lovebird while trying to fly in the room. Her leg and stomach part ...

Blue Front Amazon - female - excessive molt  My 15 yr old BF Amazon is molting excessively and continuously since November (all over her body). She has never done this before. Could there be a medical ...

Dry Beak  It is winter and we are running the heat (dry) alot. My conure's beak seems to be dry on both the top and bottom ends. Is this normal or should I treat ...

Parakeet, Eye a little pink and swollen  I have a parakeet who is between 2-3 years old. I just noticed that one of it's eyes is a bit pink and swollen. He tries to close that eye very often, so ...

Brown spot under one eye of my parakeet  Hi! I am wondering about a brown spot that appeared a few days ago under one eye of my parakeet. Do you know reason. Thank you.

Sunconure died  We had a sunconure who died early hours of the morning on Feb 10, 2010. Last night she seemed to suffer seizure like twitching. She would scream when ...

a serious problem with a leg and diarrhea  Hello, My female budgie has this problem with her leg as shown on the enclosed photo. Unfortunately, I was too late to discover this problem only yesterday ...

Do lorikeets recover from the death of a mate?  Dear Sir/Madam,

Last Friday while driving on a freeway, our car's windscreen hit a low-flying lorikeet (green body, abour 25 cm). Its mate was flying ...

Feather loss  Hi, My pet budgie is loosing her feathers and her skin is all red and itchy. Her feet are also itchy and dry. We spray her with bird mite and lice spray ...

regurgetate  y do my female senegal parrot regurgete's her food back up after she's eats then eats it again?

cockatoo feather anatomy  We have a new cockatoo we adopted from a rescue. Although he is an over-preener, I've never seen him pluck. However, I noticed that there is a bare area ...

Nanday constantly ruffles feathers and is losing some.  I just brought my nanday conure home and within a few days he has been ruffling his feathers every few minutes so they are always up and I am notiving ...

My grey started biting his feet  my grey had a bleeding wound on his foot when I got up the morning of the 6th july 09 I took him to his avian vet they put him in a collar and gave him ...

sun conure died suddenly  Cleaned my sun conures cage last night. She was active and walking on the floor and chatting as she usually does. When I came home from work tonight,...

lovebird perch sitting  My lovebird has started falling off of his perch. He can stand on it sometimes, but loses his balance. And I've noticed that he has begun to shiver as ...

Dizziness, poor balance and dull eyes  Hello there, I hope you can help me as this question is not specifically about a parrot.

BACKGROUND:
We live in Melbourne Australia and about 2 months ...

Cockatiel beak tumors  Have a cockatiel about 5 years old, has black bubble like growth on the edges of his beak (both sides).
They grow to about 3mm then drop off...any ideas?...

I need advice please. I really don't know what to do.  about a month ago I got a five month old sun conure, Sunny. She was the most perfect pet, a family member in a short time. We loved her so much. She was ...

lovebird weak neck  I'm looking into adopting a 3 year old lovebird that the owner describes as having a weak neck. He says that when the bird hatched he had a shaky neck ...

Lovebird standing on one foot  Our lovebird is suddenly all fluffed up and standing on only one foot. He is not as social as usual, and is biting us - he usually just nibbles on our ...

Sick bird  Hello, how are you going? my name is Christina and I live in Australia. I have a beautiful white pigeon called Whitie, who is really tame. He is actually ...

My Lorikeet Is Vomiting White Liquidy Stuff?  My Rainbow Lorikeet Stitch-is vomiting White liquidy stuff. He hasnt eaten anything besides his normal food n he has drank some water. he is not very ...

Parakeet  My parakeet has been acting strange usally it is always singing and playful but latley he has been quiet just sitting and wont eat hes also been losing ...

Our parrot just stopped talking.  All of a sudden,our parrot has stopped talking or making any noice for the past 1 month.But it is seems to be very active except that when it tries to ...

Lovebird Developed a Bump on Face Next To Beak  Our Peach-Faced Lovebird had developed a pronounced bump on his face just to the side of the upper part of his beak and below his eye. In the area where ...

lost voice  My cuckatoo umbrella lost his voice Monday and today, Friday, he almost sounds like he is coughing. Could it be something serious?

Cockatiel has large blood blister on wing  We adopted this cockatiel about 4 years ago, and at that time they thought he was about 12 years old. A few years ago he developed this little bump/blister ...

Small bald spot on Eclectus chick's head  My 8 week old (approx) h/r male Eclectus chick has a dry bald spot on the top of his head. Is this a disease?

He is having 4 feed's a day, and he isn'...

vet said that one of my hens has Marek's   The vet said that one of my hens has Marek's disease! She is well in herself but a bit lame, she is eating well, still laying and enjoying herself. Wanders ...

Canary broken/swollen leg joint   Hi, my canary has a swollen leg because it is red and everytime she tries to walk on both legs she has trouble with her right leg and favors her left ...

Pipin is too quiet and keeps sleeping  Pipin the Quaker does not seem like himself the last 2 days. Does not talk or chirp and keeps sleeping.
Nose in feathers often.
Eats and drinks but ...

My red rump grasskeet has patchy molt on chest  My grasskeet is an opaline red rump female, a year old, not eggbound, green with orange on the head and some yellowish on the back. She's molting on her ...

Moluccan cockatoo bump  My Moluccan Cockatoo Honey has a bump on his back right next to his spine and near his hips that has been there for at least a month or two. He is at least ...

my baby macaw can't squak  Mo Jo was given to us out of a neglectful home. He has shown lots of progress over the last week as far as walking and talking to me. He really listens ...

Re - occuring respiratory infection due to some lung damage  Hello, I have a cockatiel that about ten years ago ate something she shouldn't have done and it made her very sick. The vet at the time injected her with ...

there is no bird vet where i m living and i having 3 lovebirds . and i f my bird get sick what should i do .   but there is dog vet can they check the lovebirds

feathers being pulled out by female hen from her own chest.  we notice the other day that the hen was pulling out its own feathers on its back side, we took to the vet were he gave some sort of drops to the area,...

Sun Conure Who Gained Weight Laid An Egg 1/3 size of normal  Hi there, I wrote about a month ago regarding my 5.5 year old Sun Conure who had gained approx 10-13g last month. She went from 107g end of November up ...

My parakeet feather loss and wing problem  I have two parakeets. One is only a couple months old. It is losing quite a bit of weight, is holding his right wing down below the other, and losing ...

ringneck lost feathers  We have a ringneck and for the last year, he is losing his feathers. He still talks, eat fearly well, but look terrible. He plugged all his feathers, except ...

my 2 ringnecks yawn a lot is it sick?  my 2 indian ringecks have been yawning a lot and have been quite since 2 days, they haven't even said a word
is this worrying?
could this be deadly?...

Feather discoloration   My peach front conure is 8 months old and his once green feathers are now turning a dark color…almost black…not all but several on his head and back. Help?...

huge bump under my birds tail  My bird has a huge bump sticking out from under her tail. its red and there is a yellowish discharge from it. What exactly is it? and how do I help her ...

Stomach bulge  I just bought a 9 week old green cheek conure. I am handfeeding him formula. When his tummy fills up it is on his right side only, the size of a small ...

Lovebirds  I have 2 1 year old lovebirds and I just noticed that one is feeding the other like if it was a baby. What does that mean? Thank you,

Zebra Finch with Swollen Eye  Hi have two male zebra finches who over the year I have had them have gotten along pretty well. One day while cleaning out the cage I noticed that the ...

Swollen cheek on Cockatoo  My Umbrella Cockatoo has a swelling on the left side of her face just behind her beak. One of the vets at our regular practice, not an Avian expert, (our ...

Redish eye ring on black-capped conure  Hi. One of my conure's eye rings, which are usually bright white, is slightly red-pink. The eye itself appears to be normal, and the bird does not exhibit ...

No feathers on chest  Hi my Male Indian ringneck lost all of his feathers on his chest about 1 year now...all he has are those grey white feathers and he recently had 1 or 2 ...

Mysterious Red Bump  My african grey parrot (14 years old) develpoed a red bump on her face near her eye. It appears to have happened overnight. The bump resembles a pimple ...

Wild Orange fronted conure...not eating seeds  How do I get my newly adopted wild orange fronted conure to eat bird seed? All he wants to eat is fruit. I've noticed his feces is runny. I found this ...

parrakeets claws  my parakeet cant seem to grasp with her claws,she lays on the bottom of cage on her stomach i put her food and water there for her and she continues to ...

male eclectus parrot  what are the 2 brown spots on his beak a symtom of?

How do you correctly clip the flight feathers of a budgie?   I have a new budgie and wish to clip the flight feathers? How do I do this correctly?

lovebird is losing all of his feathers  hello,
My lovebird has recently been going bald. His leg recently went lame but we fixed it by massaging it daily and has made a healthy recovery, but ...

Green check conure  My green check conure is 1 years old. He is supposedly a male. He has a habit of lifting his back feathers up and he tries to push his rear end up against ...

injured cockatiel  My cockatiel flew into a table and hit her chest and hurt her foot. She was laying on the bottom of the bird cage breathing heavily. What do you think ...

feathers missing  i have a 2 yr old green cheek conure just recently we have noticed that on the top of his head and back of neck he has lost some feathers , but it seems ...

Blue and Gold Macaw won't or can't extend one wing out  We have been noticing the past couple of days that our Blue and Gold will not fully extend his Right Wing. What could be the issue? He eats, sleeps, plays ...

Will feeding this kind of diet help overly hormonal lovebirds?  I've done most everything that I can to avoid hormonal surges in my two lovebird hens but at certain times of the year, even with limiting their daylight ...

Vets are at a loss on what is wrong with Macaw  We have a 9-month-old Severe Macaw named Homer. About six weeks ago, Homer tore a whole in his body at his keel bone. He should not have survived the ordeal ...

shallow breathing  several weeks ago one green cheek conure of a pair in a topper cage was observed in the late afternoon after a normal morning to to have shallow rapid ...

Double Yellow Headed Amazon Losing his feathers  Our double yellow headed amazon parrot has begun losing his colorful tail feathers and the feathers on his chest are all fine white and fluffy. He is ...

xmas tree branch?  can a xmas tree branch harm one bird but not 2 others?

budgie health  For the last cople of days i have noticed that my budgies feathers on top of his head and top of his beak are fluffed up constantly I havent noticed this ...

Sun conure biting  Hi,

I have an 19 month old sun conure named Petey. He has been the most wonderful pet I have ever had the pleasure of owning.
Petey has reached sexual ...

what is better nutritional wise for conures zupreem or roudybush?  I have a 10 month old yellow sided green cheek and in 8 weeks im picking up another green cheek as a new addition to the family. I have the option to tell ...

My African grey parrot is sick. and his buddy a citron cockatoo is being ver agressive  I dont know if it is an emergencey, but my african grey who is 6 months old started to sneeze 3 days ago and lost his apetite yesturday and is now very ...

Rosella has lost upper beak in a bird-attack.  Please could you advise me whether it is "in my golden mantle's best interests" to provide her with a prosthetic beak after she has been attacked and has ...

Baby green cheek conure not standing.  Hi, I have a baby green cheek conure who is 17 days old now. I have noticed that ever since it was hatched, its legs have been totally spread out like ...

Cockatiel wing injury  My 16 year old cockatiel injured his wing approximately a month ago when he got startled and flew while on top of his cage (his wings are clipped). The ...

brown lump on nose  My male has a brown lump on his nose...he still can breath, but one hole is 75% covered, any suggestions?

feather loss  My peach faced love bird continues to loss his feathers. I do not see him pulling them out. He is totaly bare skinned around his chest and around his ...

Seizures in Green Cheek Conures  A few days ago, my youngest Green Cheek Conure started to have seizures shortly after putting the birds to bed for the night. Due to the extent and number ...

one month old alexendria parakeet  i have bought an alexendria parakeet ...
he is 3 weeks and 4 days old now
he was a very hyper active bird
he use 2 jumb around and play all day long
...

My lovebird has what seems to be a cut/scrape on her right nostril...  just yesterday i found what seems to be a cut or a scrape ON my female lovebirds right nostril. I don't know how she got it. What I'm worried about is ...

Sun Conure Died  My Friends Sun Conure, Tiki, died today. She was sitting in her loft when she heard a thump. She went into her room, where Tiki lives, she saw him on the ...

Noisey neighbor Cockatoo  My neighbor has a pet Cockatoo which she leaves in a cage in her back yard. It is really noisey in the late afternoon until dark ( two to three hours every ...

Open Sore on Underside near leg  My parrotlet has an open sore on her underside near her leg. She is approximately 13 years old and has never had any illness. She is still eating, drinking,...

diet for my bird  my bird doesn't like fruits,can I give him boiled vegetables. (email removed, we do not post email addresses.)

green wing macaw inner clear eyelid not opening  The inner eyelid on my mccaw will close and gets stuck halfway when comming back. Also when he closes his eye completely and trys to re-open it the top ...

bird bitting feet  my blue and gold macaw has a problem with chewing his claws around his nails.. i have taken him to the vet many of times. he as had antibotics, pain meds ...

Janday Conure's toe turning black  My 9 month old Janday Conure got her toe tangled in some string, and it was a while before anyone noticed. Her toenail was somehow chipped off, and now ...

love bird has her head down  My peach faced love bird's head is always tilted downward towards her chest. The only time her head is upright is when I pick her up and pet her.

swollen eyes   my cockatiel's eyes are swollen from flying into a door, what can I do to make it better?

greenwing macaw scratching his own face  My greenwing macaw is 5 months old and he has been scratching his own face quite often and it is beginning to worry me. I bathe him every other day with ...

Macaw has a lump  My macaw seems to have a small lump, the size of a marble or small grape on its right breast. It is under the feathers and is not affecting their growth....

Panting?!  Okay-my step-mom's bird is an Umbrella Cockatoo, AnnaBelle, and she is......10 years old....she will either sit on her perch/stand thing, or sit on my ...

lovebird itching to death,to the point of hurt itself  Please help I got a love bird from a lady it was in a tiny cage and had been fed only wild bird seed,plus she smoked, I got him in big cage but cant get ...

Budgie hurt foot   I have a baby budgie, maybe 7 weeks old, he hasn't even got all his feathers yet, and is still partly covered in down. When I got him, at age 5 weeks, he ...

Lethargic female cockatiel  Our one year old female cockatiel seems as though she is very tired all the time and is not eating like she used to. She seems very miserable and her breathing ...

Wet/moist tongue and/or mouth & Fecal Question  Should a parrot have a moist tongue/mouth/throat besides after drinkig or consuming moist foods? My Sun Conure likes to pick/preen my face and I can often ...

Prolapsed rear from last egg layed  I have gently pushed her prolapsed area back in but it comes out when she poops ..she is 15 and healthy otherwise.....what is the long term???? will it ...

cockatiel laid egg and wount eat  My Cockatiel laid her first egg today but she isnt eating or drinking .Why and how can I make her?also she only laid one egg.

Cockatiel has something in corner of his eye  IT looks like a seed hull in the corner of his eye! His other eye is normal. No other signs of sickness? He has molted 2 times in the last 3 months,...

general medicines for sick lovebirds  can you tell me the general medicines for sick lovebirds by giving name of medicines and for what disease

scratching  my son was given a cockatiel and in the last few days he has started to scratch the feathers out from around his eyes, we are wondering if it stress from ...

Should you cover your parrots cage at night for it to sleep?  Should you cover your parrots cage at night for it to be able to sleep. I get conflicting responses from everyone in my area and especially from local ...

lighting  im using repti-glo light with 6700k colour temperture 98cri is this rating safe for birds

baby parrot has Swollen yellow belly with sneezing and nasal discharge.  I am seeking medical here in Chennai India but it's hard to find good care. I purchased a weeks old baby Alexandrian Indian parrot from someone who i suspect ...

Sun Conure - seizures  I currently have my sun conure - 18yrs old - I believe he had a seizure yesterday - he is at an emergency hospital and is staying overnite - they said ...

Gas heaters and sneezing  I have had my parakeet for 5 years but she has been staying with my grandparents the entire time because the heating situation was not the best in our ...

feather shedding  Why would my 8 week old baby lorikeets be losing their flight feathers?

Hen has not laid an egg all year.  My cockatiel hen has not laid any eggs this year,last year was her first breeding year and she raised one chick. I often see her and her partner mating....

Sun Conure Weight Gain Egg or Seasonal FOLLOW-UP  Hello I am writing again in regards to my Sun Conure gaining weight unexplainably. Since I last wrote on the 22nd she has gone up to 119-120g but is still ...

my lovebird is itching and lose hair  can i put cortizone cream on my lovebird he is itching?

My Conure seems itchy  For the last two days or so my conure has been itching his nares and the side of his head a lot. He'll itch and itch until i have to tell him to stop ...

macaw bird missing feathers  i just got amacaw bird andalotof his featers are missing i like to know why?

Sun conure Sneezing   Hi I just got my sun conure just a week ago and he is just 4month's old and He is sneezing not alot but maybe about three time's aday what I seen anyway ...

plucking so hard bleeds badly  Hi, we have recently been given a 6 yr old quaker, just prior to getting him he had picked at himself and caused couple minute, small scabbs,(left upped ...

Why is my Conure slowing losing feathers around his eyes & nose?  Dear Doctor,
My Jenday Conure Saki is slowing losing his tiny feathers around his eyes and nose. We've had him for 10 months and this problem is slowly ...

bare spots  Is there supposed to be a bare spot underneath my parakeets wing?

Gray under birds eye.  Hi, my lovebird is mainly yellow with a pink face. She's what they call an African lovebird. If she's starting to gray under her eye, does that mean she'...

Cockatiel loss of voice  Hello, my cockatiel Charlie all of a sudden lost his voice and sounds like a small broken whitsle when he tries to speak. He has also lost all of the feathers ...

projectile vomiting in a conure  I was a given a bird about 7 months ago...fine and healthy...supposedly he is a conure. Today, 12/22/09 he has projectiled vomited 3x..once on me , twice ...

Specks on eyes  Hello, My Mexican Red-headed amazon parrot has these specks on both of his/her eyes. They tend to get worse as the years progress. Will this be a large ...

How do you give antibiotic to a cockatiel  The vet put my cockatiel on antibiotics and gave me a sirenge to use (no needle). Its small but still to big to fit in her mouth and everytime I try to ...

Unexplainable weight gain in Sun Conure-seasonal or egg?  I have a 5 and a half year old Sun Conure who I have writtn for advice regarding a few times this year in relation to bubbles in droppings, and other strange ...

cockatiel with loose stool  Hi I took my cockatiels stool to the vets and they sent it away and said nothing came up eg. parasites or deiseases , why else do you think she has diahrea ...

Parotlets  Hi, I have had a Parotlet for about 2 weeks and she has just started sneezing? She is 4 months old so I am aware of the molting stage but the sneezing ...

broken wing  my parakeet was playing with our other bird and the big bird bit her. Now my parakeet is favoring on of his wings and lifting it up alot. He can still ...

Parakeet has growth on top of foot  my parakeet is over 8 years old, and recently (for about the last 3 weeks) he's been unable to get down to the bottom of his cage and back up.
He seems ...

Eclectus rooster killed its chicks  Hello, I am a breeder of Eclectus parrots with two pairs. We also have one pair of Red heads. I have been doing this for about 10 years and have had great ...

Sun Conure Health question  My sun conure is sneezing a little too often and a little water comes out from his nose. Today, he was really mad and he bit the cage bars really hard....

Broken Leg  My eclectics parrot was accidently stepped on a month ago and badly broke her leg. She was taken in for microscopic surgery which was unsuccessful. Her ...

Clogged nostril  I have a 12 year old quaker parrot with a clogged nostril. It looks like skin has actually grown up and over the nose hole. I tried to soften the skin ...

sore on my love birds bum  i have just noticed my love bird has a sore on his bum underneath where his wings fold over on top..it looks like he has either plucked the feathers out ...

Our sun conure died today.  Our 17 year old sun conure looked and acted as healthy as ever until today.

When we returned home from work, he was loudly having difficulty breathing,...

flght feather shedding  Why is my young eclectus shedding off its flight feathers?

Painting  I am about to paint my house and am wondering if it will effect my Sun and Nanday Conures in any way. Is it ok to paint with them in the same room with ...

Sore leg.  My budgie has a sore leg. He can still walk on it and climb up the cage to his perch, but not as well as he used to. He doesnt stay up on the perch for ...

kakariki with bad eyes  hello, we own a believed to be female kakariki and lately we noticed her eyes have been missing feathers around them and the skin looking a little raw,...

Sneezing parakeet  My parakeet sneezed today right before he went to bed. When I looked at his nostral there was some wetness but it wasn't dripping or anything. The reason ...

Toe sensitive  Hi, my budgie is very sensitive toe one foot and I've noticed that one of the toes on that foot is curled round and she sits on it and when I try to look ...

love bird sleeps with tail in water  i bought a love bird a few months ago and was told it was a female as i presumed my other one is a male . i have a nesting box in their cage and put some ...

Behaviour of an elderly African lovebird  My female lovebird is now 11 years old. She has entered a continuous cycle of trying (unsuccessfully) to lay eggs... followed by a period of plucking ...

growth on beak of budgie  We have a budgie who is about 3 years old she has a growth on on the r/hand side of her beak that is about 2 mm in size (3/16 th. of a inch)it looks like ...

Bitting feet  Hi, My female budgie keeps bitiing my male budgies feet and my male budgie runs away after and my female budgie refuses to leave him and tries to lay under ...

My budgie has a lump under his wing  The lump developed a couple of weeks ago, it looks more like a large blister. The lump is soft and seems to be filled with fluid. My budgie is eating ...

Chewing tail feathers and ones on the top of its back   Why is my parrot starting to chew its tail feathers and its back feathers it only really does it at the night, when i am bed. I cover it up every night,...

my lovebird is plucking its feathers  hi i have got two lovebirds...ther bout 1 year and half years old....
i am not sure if ther male or female....

but one of them has been plucking its ...

zebra finch  My finch has been puffy for the last two months. Last night it could not fly but today it can but is still puffed up.I am wandering what might be causing ...

opening up mouth wide and moving head  3 yr old amazon parrot has been opening her mouth up and bobbing her head frequently. She is sneezing also. Could she have congestion and unable to breath ...

Sunshine Factor Red Palm Oil on Amazon's Pellets  Dr. B, I usually answer questions, and now I have one of my own. I have two Red-Lored Amazons over 30 years old, and was wondering if I can use the Red ...

my lovebird had a bald spot under her eye, and now it is swollen  my lovebird has been keeping one of her eyes closed off and on for awhile, slowly it began to start becoming bald, now it is bald under her eye, and it ...

African parrot has one eye closed  Hi my african parrot whos over 30 years old has suddenly got one of his eye's closed. can you please let me know why or what i can do to solve this? unfortunetly ...

My Parrot has a swollen eye  Three days ago my parrot's eye has became swollen and pink, and hes unable to see through his eye. HE keeps scratching it and barely opens the eye. I think ...

Black lump  Just noticed our lovebird has a black lump under her wing. She is only 8 months old and it doesn't seem to hurt her much? What should we do?

How much/often to feed adult Sun Conure  I have heard conflicting info regarding how much and how often parrots should be fed. I have a 5 year old female Sun Conure who eats mostly Harrisons HP ...

lorikeet weight problem  My male lorikeet isn't putting much weight on, he's 16 months old and eats wet and dry mix, fruit, bread.

My young sun conure has one swollen nostril  My male sun conure (almost 9 mos) has one slightly swollen, pink, clear discharging nostril. He is acting normal but I am still concerned because of the ...

panting shallow breathing  what does it mean when our cockatoo pants and breaths shallow

Marek's disease  can Marek's disease be passed to an inside pet bird?

parakeet's eye  I went to check on my birds this morning and noticed that one of my parakeets has developed a black ring around her eye, it was not there yesterday. I ...

my ring neck fell into caroil   my ring neck fell into car oil what can i clean him with please help me

Amazon with poor balance  We have a 8 year old Yellow-naped Amazon. Over the past year he has shown signs of decreasing balance. He still eats just fine, is fully feathered, and ...

Injured foot  I closed my baby's (Timneh Grey)toe in a drawer this morning. I'm not sure it's broken, she has full grip but it's at a slight angle. She's favoring ...

Hacking cough  Our Nayday parrot just started coughing. Its almost sounds like a smokers cough. He was given to us about a week ago he is about 3yrs old. When we got ...

toenails  how much of my 6 month old scarlet macaws toenails do i cut?

my bird died mystryesly  my parekeet was fine this morning polaying with his wife but when i got home he was dead but there was no signh of ingury the only thing was when i was ...

my lovebird is losing its feathers on his chest  my lovebird is plucking his/hers hairs on its chest and has been for a good few months now it looks sore a little

what should i do

Twisted feather Quaker  I have a 25 or 26ish year old Quaker Parrot named Willie (William Penn). He has a twisted feater under his wing closest to his back. He tried to pull it ...

My parakeet has red spots on his cere.  My parakeet is less then a year old, and i believe he is a boy, as his cere has had a tinge of blue to it since I bought him. This morning I noticed some ...

Feeding of a 7-week old ringneck  I have a baby ringneck parakeet (about 7/8 weeks) and I'm feeding him baby parrot food. I want to know when i should start giving him fruit,pellets etc....

my yellow ring neck as pulled its feathers out and carnt fly no more it falls to the floor   i got him about 2 years ago he came in a very small cage he had no feathers then i got him a new cage treated him for mites bought him new toys and that ...

cockatiel with lumps on face  my bird has suddenly appeared with 2lumps on either side of its beak under it eyes there has been no changes in the birds lifestyle and it shares a cage ...

Why did my bird die?  My bird flew away 3 days ago, he was missing for a whole day, but a family and found him being attacked by there cat they saved and took care of him, but ...

parakeet can't stand or walk  My parakeet is 9 years old and suddenly he can not stand or walk, but he can fly. He lays on his stomach on the bottom of his cage, I guess because his ...

african grey eyes  hi there i was wonderning if you could help me.
my cag has on a few occasions in the past had heavey breathing, it seemed almost laboured breathing which ...

Sick African Grey  My boyfriends parrot has just been taken ill. It is shaking and can't use its left leg and sounds like its choking.

The vet said to leave him in the ...

Canary stopped singing  My canary was the most beautiful singer ever. He is 6-7 years old. This summer he just stopped singing and making any noise of any kind.

He is fine....

Thin Sun Conure  I have two sun conures. One whose about 2 and a half years old, and the other whose about a year and a half.

The older one is a typical healthy, happy ...

stress bars  i recently bought a nanday conure about 2 weeks ago i named Mango..when my boyfriend and i got him we took him to our local exotic bird center to have ...

Plucking until she bleeds  My 16 1/2 year old halfmoon conure has been plucking her feathers for about 5 years.Seems like it started after she laid her first eggs. She lets the ...

Parakeet acting strange!  My parakeet is on the bottom of the cage turning it's head around and around. I also noticed on the side of it's head the feather are missing and there ...

lovebird  my female lovebird has what appears to be a swollen neck-swelling around her chest area----should i be concerned?

Budgie  My budgie on his head there seems to be no feather ( patched like circle ) . I wonder what is that if you could help .

Lovebird Question  my lovebird lost it's feathers on it's butt and lower abdomen, and the abdomen is large. it looks like there's eggs in her belly. is this normal?

Side effects of Oxymav B  My bird had a chronic respiratory infection that has cleared up with Oxymav B. The course will finish in the next few days but now the faeces are very ...

feather dysplasia  I recently had my cockatiel to the vet for feather plucking and itching.

He did a biospy and the results shown that my Charley has feather dysplasia....

My 3 1/2 yr. lovebird is favoring one foot!  She hold up her one foot alot. I am not sure if this is normal, and what could cause this? I would like to help her to relieve some of the pain. Is there ...

I think my bird is sick  its making little soft growling noises. its eyes are glossy and droopy. and its not resting on one leg. its very scary. when i pet it it doesn't seem to ...

sneezing  i have a pair of sun conure a male and female. my male was sneezing first now my female is sneezing i saw some discharge come from her nose. they are sitting ...

Red tip feathers on the belly  Hi my name is sam, I have a four year old parakeet name Bluebarry. He has a beautiful blue belly, but when I got home I saw that he had purpleish-red ...

Parakeet's bottom of feet and tails are turning black  I have four parakeets, and two in each cage. Two girls are in one cage and the two boys are in another cage. My two girl parakeets seem to have the end ...

35 year old Yellow Nape Amazon Parrot  My 35 year old Yellow Nape passed away today.
Just recently within the past 5-8 months he seen the vet for upper infection, told the vet he was throwing ...

Should I get my male budgie a friend?  My female parakeet passed away three days ago. Her and my male parakeet were very close. They were never sexually active, but they preened each other, regurgitated ...

feathers above beak  I have a quaker that is about 2 years old, got him about a month ago. The feathers above his beak have come out and it looks like a small hole. His beak ...

health regarding parrot  since last two days my parrot is not feeling are,feeling cold might be ,suggest me how to protect.

Grey feathers are brown and weak eye  I recently rescued (5 months ago)an african grey(he is around 5 years old). At times, toward the evening his right eye seems to close (not his left), is ...

Adding another "TOO"  A quick background on my situation.

I presently have an umbrella cockatoo "Angel". She (or possibly he) not sure of gender,
is 8 years old. I have ...

arthritis (budgies)  I have a beautiful 5 year old boy budgie that has just started to get arthritis in his legs & is unable to walk or stand up & weighs 55g which im trying ...

Swollen Stomach  My Green-Naped has a swollen stomach. His color has changed from Green to a Dark Blue/Black. What could be the problem?

weird flap of skin on parakeet beak.  There is a little pink string like flap of skin right on the corner of my female parakeet's beak. What is it!!??

indian ringneck parakeet gender  how to tell the sex of the birds

parekeet broken leg and wing.  my parakeet broke her leg and wing about five years ago when she was attacked by a wiener dog. she was nursed back to health and lived happily until now ...

Cockatiel with a soiled vent  Hi there, We have an apx. 9 yr old female cockatiel (apx, because she flew into our farm, we've had her 9 years) She's always been healthy except an incident ...

3 year old sun conure - blad spot on head  We have 2 sun conures approx 3.5 years old (purchased June 2009) who share a cage. One suddenly developed small bald spot on head. We do not see him being ...

sick cockatoo  my cockatoo is always sleeping & not talking or screaming , it looks like he regurgitates & clear fluid comes out, he is eating & drinking a little , & his ...

Very long toe nail  I have just been passed an amazon and one of its toe nails is curled around against its toe. Does the blood supply run throughout a nail when it gets to ...

My parekeet  i think my English parekeet is sick he puffs up his fethers and looks like if he felt very cold and doesnt do anyhting else other than sleep and look sad!...

Losing LoveBird Feathers around neck sin can see neck skin  My lovebird is losing feather around it's neck, and it's cold outside. Is this normal,or should I be concerned? She is not a baby, and is a Peach-Faced ...

feathers  Hello I am slightly concerned about my black headed caique as she has a small patch on her back where she has been picking her feathers, I have just treated ...

Do conures get pimples/blemishes?  I have 4 conures, my youngest one is a Nan-Gen, she's only 6 months old...and I just noticed today has what looks like a blemish just under her right eye....

bird twiching legs  bird twitched its feet and head kept itching, and unfortunatly she passed to quickly for us to take it to the vet do you know what happend????/

paint fumes  I have to paint a room in my home. My bird is in the next room. What should I do?

Something is wrong with my mother in laws B & G  Hi My mother in laws B&G is five years old. she just obtained her from a previous owner about 5-6 weeks ago. She is in her 80's, so the family helps ...

Sunshine Factor and multi vitamins too?  can i give my indian ringneck parakeet bird Sunshine Factor plus Avitron multi vitamins?

eggs and behavior  My lovebird is a lone female, and she used to be quite nice, but then she laid a large number of eggs on her cage floor and now bites any thing that comes ...

Carbon Steel Wok safe for birds?  I understand that use of non-stick cookware can emit dangerous fumes for my cockateil. I found a "carbon steel" wok, which has "natural non-stick" qualities....

My new budgie is sneezing and doesn't seem well  My new budgie that I got a couple weeks ago has been doing small sneezes occasionally (I'm not sure they're sneezes, they're very small puffs). And starting ...

poop stuck on butt  My bird is a rescue, I have had him for some time now. He has been very healthy and great except for the occasional bite. I noticed today he had poop stuck ...

help my budgie please.  I let my budgie out of her cage and she burt her leg on the radior and flew in the wall and hurt her head were do i take her when you have to pay and we ...

My Quaker Parrot has Scratched his Face  A few days ago I noticed my quaker parrot's feathers were not laying down properly just to the right of his ear/below his eye. I took a closer look and ...

30 Year old Cockatiel suffering  My Cockatiel is over 30 years old and is now showing his age.The last 6 months he holds his left claw of the perch and is shaking a little. Is he in pain?...

New cockatiel not eating, gasping, puffed up  I have just adopted a normal male cockatiel from a previous owner who was not giving him much attention. We have had him for two weeks now, he seemed in ...

my parakeet is so weak I think its dying.  my parakeet is so weak she cannot use her feet or legs and can not eat the seeds because she can't use her feet. She can barely move at all and can't stand ...

Guinea fowl - pink swollen eyelid  Hi, I have a Guinea fowl that has been lethargic for a few days, with the eyelid of one eye swollen and pinkish.

The eye is closed most of the time ...

scared bird african grey  my african grey will not accept anything new in his cage, either toy or food, if i do put anything in he huddles in the corner shaking. i am trying to ...

My blue and Gold Macaw is scratching his eyes   He is really scratching his eyes with his toe nails and around the eyes you can see red through his white feathers. His one eye is cloudy but was like ...

Millet only English Budgie (parakeet)  My English Budgie is almost a year old. I got him on Christmas 2008 as a baby, just a few weeks old. He's a social happy birdie. Loves every one of ...

Brown feather spots  My green parakeet is getting brown feather spots on her chest. Should I be concerned?

deformed legs in Sun  what can be done for a sun conure that has deformed legs we have handfed this bird from day one and have worked hard to get the legs to work the way they ...

mexican red head parot wing  my birds wing in drooped and the fethers are missing in an area. he is eating, but he is not acting like himself. a friends says he got his wing cought ...

Gold Cap Conure biting  Recently my Gold Cap Conure has started a few bad habits and I don't know what to do. First he started wanting FEET. We would be able to pick him up, then ...

afican red bellied parrot  mean of propuleion

my parrot - training problem  if i have a new parrot and i opened his cage he will go and dont come back ?

sudden one eye shut on my burkit   My bird is possibly 15 years old . Less than 14 days I noticed one eye close and as if he has a catarat in the left eye. He appears less active but still ...

Unfertillized eggs in the cage  Good Afternoon, My African Grey (21 yrs old) has laid her first few eggs. We removed the first because it was broken. She has had 2 eggs in the cage and ...

cockatoo sore eye  in the past 3 days my cockatoo has a sore eye that keeps it closed. i don't know what he has done, but is there anything i can give him?

green cheek broken leg  My green cheek broke his leg when my son accidentally stepped on him. The break was down by his foot at the joint. The avian vet splinted his leg. He ...

dizzy off balance conure  My Green Cheeked Conure was flying around the house and when he finally stopped we set him on the side of a bowl to have a bath. He seemed very off balance ...

What do i do if my Coaktail Eye is fully shut ?  I have a Coaktail name Pancha she has one eye shut like if she would have a pink eye or something but we want to no if there any drops i can buy to put ...

Surgery to remove abscess in conure abdomen   My bird is scheduled to have surgery on Friday oct,23,2009. He recently had liver failure due to poor diet. We have since fixed his diet and gave him 30 ...

easter rosella molting?  is it normal if an eastern rosella's feathers on its neck and upper head falls out?
he's about 8 years old now, and has molted over the years, but never ...

African grey parrot   Hi i have got African grey parrot is just been plucking his feathers and he got some patches as i can see the skin and his been not putting on weight ...

Nanday Conure voice changed  Hi, I have a 23 month old nanday conure. His voice has become more like he has a sore throat. He does not have runny nostrils or any changes in his poo....

parrot plucking  hi i have a male african grey hes almost 4 years old and hes started picking the feathers around his chest area to the point where he has gone bald. I ...

Peachface plucking until he bleeds  My peachface, Joey, is plucking himself until he bleeds. He has a bald spot by his neck and now he is plucking his skin. We are very concerned with him....

My Green Cheek Conure freaked out and started flying into things  My 9 year old green cheek conure Kiwi, started blinking rapidly and then breathing heavily. Kiwi was on my boyfriend at the time when he notified me of ...

Parakeet has unusual "tick"!?!  We adopted a parakeet (Lil' Joe) from a neighbors friend a couple years back. The woman claimed the bird was 12 years old though it seemed more like a ...

Once Green feathers getting dark  My lovebird sonny's feather's have been changing. They aren't as bright anymore and are getting darker on some spots. Is this an indication of illness?...

One legged bird laying down?  I just adopted two handicapped birds. I have had them for 9 days now. Harper has one leg and Tennessee can not grip well with her two feet.

Harper ...

My Budgie has a red sore under her wing  My Budgie has a red sore underneath her right wing. It's hard to tell whether she's in discomfort or not as she is generally quite noisy, but she does ...

budgie parakeet self injury?  I woke up this morning to find blood all over the cage of my two male parakeets. They acted perfectly normal, they are eating and drinking and chirping,...

African Grey Feather Picker  Help !!!! I have an 16 year old African Grey that started picking her feathers during my separation and Divorce - I had to leave her with a friend for ...

Hahn's mini Macaw red spots  I have a 3 year old hahns mini macaw and I noticed this evening that she has red sores spots under her wings and on the inner part of her leg, what could ...

My Eclectus Parrot, Buddy  What types of fruits are eclectus parrots allowed to eat? Are they allowed to eat nectranes??? or plums? or prunes? If my parrot poops only a little should ...

Blue crown conure with sfuffy nose and watery eyes  Our blue crown flew away a few years ago and we were lucky enough to find him the next morning. We think he crashed into the large building we found him ...

sun conure eye ring developing dark patches  Our sun conure appears to be in good health, but his formerly all-white eye rings have turned dark gray on the frontal portions of both eye rings, covering ...

yellow naped amazon, 25 years old   My parrot has been making a crying noise since yesterday and his feathers are fluffed. He is usually very talkative. He is eating just fine and has energy....

Lovebird's Thinning Feathers Around Eyes  I have a Lovebird whos feathers around his eyes appear to be a bit thin... I wasn't sure I really noticed it at first (or if his feathers just look thinner ...

parrots  why does a parrot fall off his perch while sleeping

Sun Conure with Splayed Legs  We have rescued a Sun Conure from an elderly couple who could no longer care for her. The bird is obviously suffering from splayed legs. She looks like ...

parakeet with swollen nares  My female parakeet has swollen nares that have been growing larger over the past few months. She is able to breath, and acts typical. It looks like it ...

Toe swollen Green Check Conure  Hi i have a green check conure and the breeder place the band ring when it was 8 weeks old through the foot. now the middle long toe is Swollen and the ...

sneez  my sun conoure has been sneezing. sometimes a flued comes.. so can u give me some advice?? i,m worried n i love my pet

over medicated?  My budgie was having breathing problems so I brought it to a avian vet. she was there for 3 days....they gave her zithromax 0.04 and itraconazole 0.25 ...

colour of droppings for a lorikeet  Hello,
I have a rainbow lorikeet whos urine sometimes looks a bit yellowy but other times it is clear. Could the yellow of the urine be due to the colour ...

Finch illness   my finch is puffed up but is eating and sleeping well,is it sick? i think its a zebra finch.

Need to find this out about my parrot ASAP  Please help me on this...my Solomon Island Eclectus parrot is having watery eyes, watery bowels, her breathing seems slow and deep and she is not eating ...

Conure sudden death  My 2 year old conure was happy and appeared normal and healthy, then suddenly went into her cage and started having respiratory distress. She died within ...

Sick Chicken  My chicken is having trouble breathing, and it has white eyes. my other chicken died, but we did not see any symptoms that the sick alive bird is having....

My Lovebird has plucked out all its feathers  About a year back, my lovebird started nibbling (not plucking) off its flight feathers due to which it could not fly anymore. I took it to a vet who took ...

my Sun Conure hit the wall  My bird was a little stressed today by some birds outside. I started to play with, he and I always joke to play something small in the air and he tries ...

My albino ringneck dove is acting weird, and has become.. puffy.  My name's Kirsten, and I've had an albino ringneck dove for just over two years (he's male, his name's Casper). Lately, Casper has been acting very strange,...

Timneh african grey  why ia my bird sleeping all the time? that's all she is doing do birds get colds or the flu maybe even pms? she is a young female by herself?

My double yellow-headed amazon making strange sounds  I have a five year old double yellow-headed amazon that has started making a gasping almost grunting sound within the past couple of months. (Also flaps ...

parakeet sick or injured  last month i bought a nest box my female parakeet acted interested in the nest box weeks go by and she is just sitting in the nest box i thought shes just ...

Crazy Glue.... Once Dried is it Toxic for Cockatiel?  I have a cockatiel. The plastic cage tray bottom just broke. Can I repair the cracked plastic with crazy glue, let the glue cure for 12 hours and then ...

my parakeet is showing illness symptoms  its resting with its head tucked under its wing,not eating,cloudy eyes, its sitting and the bottom of its cage and is not talking even what should i do...

Sick Alexandrin Parakeet  Weak, loose stools, vomiting; vet said high bacteria count; She went round of anitbiotics the first of Setpemter and got better. Same sickness again; keeping ...

parakeet scratching  Woke up the birds this morning to find one had scratched the side of her head till it bled. She also had rubbed it on the rope swing. I see a small hole ...

Beak problems in a Cockatiel  We have owned a grey cockatiel for about 8 years and his beak has alway been abnormal in that the lower beak grows up over his upper beak. He manages ...

My parrot is coughing in morning   My parrot has made coughing noises, not like I would short breathy ones two days in the morning and a couple times during the day.

He is chewing on ...

bump between nose and eyes  my red crown parrot is getting a bump between his nose and eye. what could it be?

Cockatiel with swolen, milky, mucouy eye  I noticed today that my 15 yr old tiel umour was keeping her left eye closed all day, and this evening when she opened it noticed that it was swollen and ...

clogged  how do i treat a clogged nostril on a mealy amazon bird he's having a hard time breathing he makes a wheezing sound. how do i know what it is?

Blue Crown Conure drinks alot of water  I have a Blue Crown Conure that is 16 years old and I have moved quite a bit the past 5 years, at least 3 times. I have had him since he was 4 weeks old,...

2 week Guinea keet with eyelid unopened  Is there anything I can do about this baby keet with an eyelid not opened? Eye underneath looks fine.

air sac mites  I have a budgie about 4 years old...She seems to be having trouble breathing...I would like to no if she could get air sac mite from my kids cockatiel?...

Dried poop stuck to the feet of 1.5 month parakeets  The 3 parakeets are about 1 and 1 half month old and their poop is so crusted on their claws that they can't get out of the housing nest. I tried to clean ...

my birds wings swollen  Hi my bird has a picking feather disorder and he always opens a hole on his stomach and I doctor it with sterile gauze and neosporin well I had his wound ...

Did my parrot have a stroke?  I have a double yellow headed Amazon parrot and recently it has broken it's leg. He has a cast on and it's been about two weeks and the vet says it will ...

swollen chest/throat  my bird, green cheek conure, has a swollen chest/throat. idk what it is and at first i thought it was bloating but idk anymore. i thought it went away ...

bird scratching  HI, My parakeet, Little Stevie is molting right now and he keeps scratching his face. The feathers around his eye are in disaray. I do not see any discharge ...

My bird and a cat  my bird got attacked by a cat. my parakeet wasnt harmed but it's tail feathers are gone and so is a huge spot on it's back is gone. Will it be okay? Will ...

Best Food for Birds  I have a cockatoo, major mitchell, budgie & ringneck they are currently all on seeds & wanting to put them on pellets, i am worried they wont eat it, also ...

sun conure crop  i have a sun conure and he is about 1 year old. his crop has been swolen or full all day today and i have put some broad spectrum antibiotics in his water ...

White skin around one eye is slightly pink on our conure  The white skin around our conures right eye has gone slightly pink and sore looking.

She does not react if we gently stroke her head and work gently ...

babies dying   we have a large avery of non related cockateils, and have babies hatching regularly, but they all seem to die around 2-3 weeks . They appear properly formed,...

My lovebirds keeps on laying too much eggs.  I have 2 peachface lovebirds. 1 male 1 female. 1 of them have laid 5 eggs already I separated them already,but 1 of them keep laying eggs. I'm not sure ...

Lutino loverbird  My lutino loverbird she sometimes Sit at the bottom of cage and she always Wheezing alot when we aproach her.

parakeet beak starts growing   This is my second parakeet, that at age 7 his beak started growing longer. Bird has been in the same cage and place since he was 1 and everything was ...

sick african grey  I took my parrot in on september 18th because she really wasn't eating much and not talking at all. She also was weak and sleeping alot during the day-...

baby conure (6 1/2 weeks) being hand fed - won't eat  My baby brown throated conure has stopped eating and I can't figure out why.

strange bump  i have a green cheeked conure and he's about six months old i believe. he grew this bump on his lower belly between his legs that i had never noticed before....

Over breeding.  Good day,

We are from SA. My sister got a Chattering Lory called Angel. The problem is that Angel is laying 2-3 eggs a month. This is worring as ...

8 month old love bird wont eat seeds only bird formula  Hi i have a 8 month old love bird that i have been raising since he was small. He was attack in his avairy and his mother died so i have been feeding ...

Poop sticks to feathers.  why does my parakeets poop stick to her feathers?
I have a parkeet and for the last week sometimes her poop sticks to her feathers. It happens a couple ...

i painted my goffin cockatoo cage   will zinc in paint hurt my bird

bird not himself  Our rainbow lorikeet is usually very very vocal, social and mischievious but lately he had been very quiet and sits with his feathers ruffled and his head ...

beak spot, soiled feathers on vent  My parakeet has a spot on her beak and droppings around vent. Otherwise seems fine. Always has been less active than the second bird.

Growth on Leg of Parotlet  Our female parrotlet has had a growth on the back part of her leg for as long as we've had her. The growth doesn't seem to bother her - she still puts ...

Pink Skin  My double yellow amazon parrot has pink/reddish skin. About a month ago we moved my bird outside due to lack of space inside. And the nights have gotten ...

Scratching  Hen budgie, about 4-5 years old, continually scratching, now missing feathers, treated with out of date "Bird Mite & Lice Spray" containing 0.5g/L pryethrins,...

Wart like bumps on dove beaks and feet ,  I have white doves, I noticed on more then 1 of my doves wart like bumps,some on their feet and some on their beaks .
They are dark in color and make ...

Quaker parrot missing feathers  I found a quaker parrot that seems to be a juvenile, it has no feather on its bellly or underneath it's wings, the skin underneath her swings seems very ...

A frog sound cough  Is there any home remedy I can do for my Yellow Crown Amazon parrot? On a fix income. Thanks Lisa

General Questions Lorikeet  Hello, I own a rainbow lorikeet and want to ask some questions.
- I took the Lorikeet for a full check up the vet said that the x ray showed the spleen ...

cockatiels rear end  i just got my cockatiel out of his cage then all of a sudden i noticed red so i looked again it was his rear end it looks like bleedind and open kinda ...

Ill Alexandrine parakeet  My bird is having unusual water-like droppings. She lacks energy( can not fly or walk) Please suggest the right diet for her.

My Cockatiel Harvey has no leg  My cockatiels live inside and outside my house. The other night I was woken up by screeches and wing flapping in the bird cage outside. I went out there ...

cockatiel 10yr.old female in otherwise good health  Trixie was seen looking ill, then we noticed that her left wing was drooping. We did see an exotic vet, new to our town. Two x-rays were taken of the same ...

Lump On Budgie's Back  Hi i have recently found a lump on my budgies back, he tends to bite it sometimes & i dont know what it is i have enclosed a picture

Cockatoo Malting  Hi i have had my cockatoo for over 6 years now, every winter he sheds his feathers on his chest, it usually takes a few months for them to re appear, i ...

egg laying  Hello,
My conure has just laid one egg two days ago and another one today
I am not really sure how I should handle this....can you maybe direct ...

Swollen milky eye  My bird princess parrot has one swollen puffy milky eye & I'm not sure what this problem is?

cockatiel sneezing  my cockatiel has been sneezing alot i dont know if she is sick.

Pine shavings  We have been given two different opinions on using pine shavings for the bottom of the birds cages. The breeder highley recommends it and said it is all ...

paralysis of leg in love birds  I have a pair of Lutino peach face love birds. Off late the female bird have developed paralysis in her right leg. how should i treat the bird ? we do ...

Foot infection?  I have an African Grey parrot about 7 months old. Her right foot became a dark yellow, almost crusty looking discoloration that discolores all 4 toes. it ...

gouldian fledgling foot problem  i have a gouldian that has left the nest, it's big toe as i would call it is pushed forward on both feet, seem to have balance issues. is there anything ...

my eclectus had her eye pecked out by her mate about 8 years ago  as it has been a number of years there is no drainage and she does not to seem she is in pain the lid does not close and she is blind in that eye. is ...

Fed bird raisins  I fed my new Sun and Nanday Conures a few raisins that people eat, not the ones you buy at the pet store for birds. I had read about the salt and sugar ...

Spine issue on our 4mo old Green Wing  We have only had our GW for 2 weeks she is now 4 months old. We noticed she has a hump on her back that is more towards the right side, which we did not ...

White spots in mouth of Amazon parrot  Hello, I have a yellow naped amazon and he is a year and a half old. Yesterday I noticed that he has these white spots or bumps in his mouth on the top ...

Inflamed ovary(?) in a peach-faced lovebird  My 4-year-old female peach-faced lovebird used to lay a clutch of 4 eggs every month or so, but they were always infertile (she lives happily with her ...

Amazon constantly cleaning - ?? his beak  My AMazon was sick about 3-4 weeks ago.. His foot was tore open and the avian vet put him on Baytril, pain meds and pain cream. His foot is just about ...

Quaker Parrot eye Injury  Please Help! We found a 2 month old Quaker parrot on the road. Apparently, it was hit by a car or something. The right side of the bird was injured. We ...

Beak discoloration and blue feet?  I'm just wondering if something may be wrong with my parakeet. He's seven years old now and has never had an issue until lately. I've noticed that his ...

my conure was attacked...  My conure was attacked by a basset hound, chiuahhah/corgi mix, a shitzu/chiuahhah mix and by a cat... After the attack she slept with me for hours... This ...

African grey-milky white urine  My bird's urine is milky white, but he is eating and acting normal. Should I be concerned?

A baby parakeet cant walk well  One of our parakeet couples had its babies about 2/3 months agao. And and the second youngest decided to come out of its nest as soon as it could walk....

Is my parakeet sick?  My bird's butt is bright red and the feathers around it are missing. If my bird is sick is there anything I can do to help her?

leo - budgie dying?  my pet budgie is acting really weird. she flew into a wall sideways! currently she rolling around on the cage floor,flappng wings, squacking/gurguling ...

Quaker Parrot seizure?  Recently my 12 year old quaker sort of slipped off his perch, his feet/toes were balled up like fists (so he couldn't perch), and was breathing heavy. By ...

Sun Conure laying eggs  When must the Sun Conure eggs be fertilized to breed successfully?

budgie area above nostrils...  my budgie has wat looks like a wound above her nostrils not a fluid but what apears to be blood....at first i thought she opened it on her perch when scratching ...

Plucking & Staying Bare  A bird I am about to rescue has plucked all of her chest feathers (her wings and tail feathers are beautiul).
I was told she is a Green Winged ...

Squamous Metaplasia  My Pionus parrot has been diagnosed with squamous metaplasia, believed to be caused by Vitamin A defiency. Her diet has been changed to Harrison's High ...

limping african grey  Hi, i have a 14month yr old male afrcian parrot , healthy, happy, eats fine and plays with us. He 'banged his right foot/leg on flying and now seems to ...

brown thrasher bird looks sick  i'm a bird and animal lover and i feed the birds in my backyard daily. i have a very large flock of different birds that come and feed. i have notice for ...

indian ringneck  my indian ringneck has just been sick and ate it again? is this a way of digesting his food or am i doing something wrong. He screems if he doesnt have ...

parakeet sleep and behavior  Right now, I have two parakeets. At night, they tend to grab on to the front of the cage and hang there instead if sleeping on the stick. they usually ...

Green Cheek Conure molting and sleeping more  Hello, I have a Green Cheek Conure and he is molting. He is doing his normal picking feathers, itching, fluffed up, and sleeping a little more than normal....

Relocation   We are planning on relocating to HI and that is a 16-17hrs flight. I have an Alexandrine Parakeet that I would love to bring along but, I'm not sure if ...

Puffy Chest  I have jsut aquired a new Greenwing Macaw into our family, I am told he is 2 years old, and seems to be perfectly happy, great plumage and coloring, outgoing ...

Parrot Disease Transmission Question  Hello, I have an African Grey parrot, and recently acquired 3 orphaned Rouen ducklings as indoor pets. I have kept the birds separate for fear of disease ...

What should i do  My lovebird was very tired, lethargic, and puffed up. she has no respitory problems. we took her to a vet, and we got antibiotics. Is this typical with ...

Broken wing  A young scaley breasted loriket was found in our yard this morning and it is obvious that he has a broken wing. He is not stressed, has eaten some flower ...

Ringworm in Birds  Can a conure get ringworm from humans and/or mammals?

Metronidazole for gas and bubbles in droppings?  I'm writing once again about my 5 year old Sun Conure. I seen a board certified vet last week and nothing was found to be wrong according to fecal tests,...

i stepped on my budgie  just recently i stepped on my budgie by accident and now she is limping on one foot and its seems that she doesn't have the ability to move her injured ...

2wk old sun conure legs  my 2wk old sun conure legs r to far apart n isnt staying right. i also have another 18 days he is ok with all for right now. she is also sitting on 1 last ...

out side avairy in winter  Can parakeets and finches be housed together in a large outside avairy throught the year in Maryland?

cough and colds of my chattering lory  hi there! i have my 7 months chattering lory. several months ago, i observed that she has a cough and colds. i think she has difficulty in breathing.. please ...

Eye-bump on my Green Cheeked Conure  My green cheeked conure has a bump on her eye... it looks like an extended part of her eyelid (the white part around her eye), but we're not too sure. If ...

Rudy chewing his foot  Rudy my 12 year old Amazon cut his foot 5 days ago and refuses to let it heal. He is actually possessed with tearing it apart. I have nursed him all week ...

Will a bird recover on it's own from a red nose due to smelling cooked onions?  I don't use teflon pans but recently I was cooking onions and noticed the next day that my birds nose was irritated. His nose looked worse as it was very ...

Cockatiel unable to perch   For the past few days, my pet cockatiel has been unable to wrap his feet around the perch and balance on it. He climbs up the cage (which is made of hardware ...

parrot scratching the area around his eye, keeps it shut. he is weak cant stand  I have a green parrot and just today he started scratching the area around his eye in the morning. he then kept his eye shut, it seemed abit pinkish when ...

my budgie  will my budgie die if its near a gas heater?

runny poop and drinking lots of water  We just bought a 11 month old greed gold macaw - 2 days ago. She seems happy but I noticed she drinks lots of water - every 30 minutes - long drinks and ...

tip of beak seams to be separating  my macaw's beak at the tip is sensitive when i looked at it it looks like a thin layer is separating from the underside. can i trim the beak or should ...

What cage size fits a conure?  What cage size fits one sun conure?
Would a 18x18 fit?

Parakeet Seizure  Our parakeet, Buttercup (8 months old), shares a cage with our other parakeet, Lucky. At 1:30am this morning, we were woken up by very loud, anxious chirping....

starting a hobby boarding center in my home  I have been wanting to start boarding for a while now, but I have some concerns. My first concern is disease. I own four parrots, a hahns macaw, two ...

Plucking Feathers  I was searching the web to find out why our conure is plucking and came across this website. I noticed a similar problem and would like to find out more ...

About breeding  My pair of birds seem to be ready to breed but the female counterpart is not responding. Can you help with some medicine to stimulate breeding in my pair....

my parakeet has a fever?  My boy parakeet that is estimated 8 month's old has been sneezing a little for the past 2 days also when i pet him i notice that his body temperature is ...

Broken Leg  What do I do, I think my bird has a broken leg
He is flying fine out of his cage but not walking fine.
What can I do to help him, he is a budgie.
thanks!...

my new love bird  she is gasping 4 air and making a funny noise is she scared

pulling feathers  hi my african gray is about 6 month old he has started to pull out his red feathers is this normal

How to take care of a baby chick?  When you have a baby chick that your raising what would be some tips you would give me and some cautions that help me out on taking care of a baby chick?...

sick lorikeet...unable to find help  About 4 days ago my rainbow lorikeet, Charlie became very quiet and would spend his days sleeping. When i awoke today,he was at the bottom of his cage ...

New parakeet won't eat  It's the second day of my parakeet's arrival and it won't eat or drink, it won't even eat a grape cut in half. I've made sure it is as comfortable as possible,...

Crawling bird  My newly bought parakeet (baby, 6 weeks)
was fine wen we got him, he was climbing but kept falling.
So, he fell once and started limping and not walking ...

possible Giardia  I have a male cockatail. He's been feather picking. He's been to the vet three times.They took blood and checked the feces. It's not getting better. He ...

Scared Rare Parakeet  I just got a parakeet today and it was one of the more shy ones in the store. When I brought it home, I set up its cage just right so it would be happy,...

parakeet illness  I have nine parakeets, but two of them are developing scabby skin around eyes and beeks. They also have very long beeks turning to the side. I have everything ...

White-ish yellow lumps on budgie's toes  My 11 month old English budgie has odd "bumps" on her toes of one foot.
White-ish/yellow lumps/growths.
Two lumps as shown in pics, and one on a back ...

Lovebird struggling to walk  My lovebird started walking hesitantly on Saturday, instead of her usual running and active behavior. Climbing up and down her cage was done hesitantly ...

Darker Toenail  Why is my Cockatiel's toenail Darker than the others? Just Wondering if this is bad.

my cockatiels  my female cockatiel laid eggs her and my male sat on them for 30 days and they didnt hatch out what can i give them to fertiles them

very sick bird! Avian vet too far!  We used to keep are cage door open and are bird would freely walk around. A couple of months ago she started acting strange so we closed the cage door....

cockatiel  Our 6 year old, female cockatiel has developed a soft bump in the middle of her lower back. It feels like it has fluid in it and is about the size of ...

HELP! Deformed egg stuck to bottom of budgie  HELP!!!!! I have a parakeet that has laid one egg and has what looks like a lot of poop and possibably deformed egg stuck to her bottom. What should I ...

my 4 year old parrot has pulled feathers out and swarks when i leave the room  hello i have brought a conure parrot and was told he pulled his feathers out because he got put in with anouther bird,we have only had him a day and he ...

sick parakeet  my parakeet is sleeping alot-sitting in bottom of cage-has ruffle feathers-doesnt make alot of noise and his poo is light green.hes been like this for ...

Urine drying yellow/green  Hello, I have been having problems with my Sun Conure for months now and am going to see a board certified vet in less than two weeks. My current biggest ...

Adding Spirulina to food & Sunshine Factor  I have an Alexandrine Ringneck on Harrison's diet and in addition I use organic red palm oil, Sunshine Factor ?

My questions is:
How often can ...

Paralyzed parakeet  Hello, i have 4 baby parakeets. one of them a blue budgie none of them are clipped and they are free to fly around fro 4 years i had them. rarely they ...

Parakeet won't sit on egg and only laid three???  Hi, my female parakeet is over two years old and has layed three eggs in this clutch. The first two eggs broke but she layed the third egg in a nesting ...

Eclectus plucking  Hello, I have a ten year old female eclectus who has just starting plucking in the last month. I am very concerned, I read here that maybe I should change ...

i think my parakeet killed my cocatiel can you tell me what happend?  I was sleeping and i heard a loud screetching sound as well as some feather flapping , and then i heard my birds hit the floor. When i looked they were ...

Skin Mutilation  Hello Dr. B,

Thank you for your reply. I am in the process of having heavy metals tested, but x-rays have never been proposed? what would I be looking ...

Ill chicken.  Hi, i have noticed that recently my chicken has not been it's self. It's feathers have been puffed out and she is constantly hunched over. Over the last ...

What should I feed a molting green cheeked conure?  Hi. I have a green cheeked conure which I got a little over a month ago. He is molting and I would like to know what I should feed him. I read he should ...

Sun Conure has a tiny white dot towards the front of her eye  My Female Sun Conure named Cleo has a tiny white dot towards the front of her right eye. It is kind of hard to notice, and I do not know if I should be ...

Sun Conure constantly "flipping" his wing  We just got our very young sun conure about 2-3 weeks ago. hes a fun guy, loves coming out and sitting with us. give him all the right foods, toys, etc....

Parakeet 's Right eye bulging out  Her right eye looks like it is bulging from the socket and she started acting like she didnt have good balance this has only happened the last three days ...

No Avian Specialist  What does one do when there is no specialist for a parakeet? I know my parakeet is dangerously ill with a lame foot, sleeping on the bottom of the cage,...

open wound on the side and back of my budgie's neck  why has my budgie got an unexplained open wound on the side and back of her neck? it looks like it is healing nicely then all of a sudden it looks a mess ...

Skin Mutilation  Hello, I have been to every avian vet recommended, and some who weren't. I have had thousands of dollars in tests done, which the vets concluded are all ...

budgie  Hey My budgie. was scratching itself and its scratched its one eye. which is really RED rite now and was bleeding what shud i doo
:'(?

blue and gold macaw with hurt eye  I have two blue and gold macaws and last night they were playing on top of one of the cages. Then one screamed so I checked to see what was going on and ...

parakeet dies suddenly  my daughters parakeet that she has had for a few months suddenly died in its cage. the bird was seemingly healthy and growing more friendly everyday. we ...

nose holes  I have just recently found out that cockatiels live only 5-10 years. I have noticed that one of our bird's nose holes is starting to close up. Is this ...

Brown Spots  My love bird is getting brown spots that look like freckles on its beak. What does this indicate?

Human Baby Food For Parrot?  My friend and I are having a discussion. She feeds her Parrot human baby food (vegetables, fruits, cereal). She does add fresh vegetables, beans and fruit ...

Mitred Conure losing feathers  I have a Mitred Conure that's almost 2 years old. Ricky is losing feathers in a quarter sized bald spot on the left side of his neck right over where his ...

I dont think my parakeet is getting sleep  Well i put a light blue cover on her every night....and i wake up very early and she seems to be awake...it was 6o clock in he morning and i think the ...

My bird has a swollen wing!  I have three baby birds that where abandoned by their mother and we started to give them some baby bird food and some vitamins, because they were very ...

Budgie with a sore foot  I have just noticed recently that my pet budgie cannot bend his right foot. He can still fly and stand on his perch. When he does stand on his perch ...

Baby bird with lump/cyst on wing  Hi. About 2.5 weeks ago we found a featherless baby bird at the base of a tree. After waiting about 8 hours to see if his mother would return we took ...

Lovebirds & feathers!  I have 2 lovebirds, 1 is fine the other male bird has lost quite a few feathers and I have tried skin & plumage treatments as well as vitamins but it has ...

quaker parrott  After matting how long till she lays an egg?

red faced parrot finches- feather loss  i have a few red faced parrot finches, two of the birds have been losing feathers, is this a moult, or do to birds fighing. many thanks, mike cooper

What could be Wrong with my cockatiel?  For the last 5 months or So he has had growth issues with hes wing feathers, its on the elbow (top) of hes wing, one side has a lump and if i take a look ...

Cockatiel Picking Problem  Hello,

I have taken my bird to my local avian vet several times for this problem, and each time I walk away with a bill for at least a hundred dollars ...

Feather pulling  We purchased a 5 month old male parakeet about 10 days ago we purchased a female parakeet about 4 months old yesterday 7/23/09. Thay seemed to get along ...

wing clipping??  i live in guatemala and my parrot(red-lored amazon) is 3 mo. old. our home is open, do you think it is necessary to clip his wings. he goes out and sits ...

Prozac for feather plucker  How safe is Prozac for my 8yr old grey, She has been plucking for about 6mnths. She has now been fitted with an e-collar.

Diet is perfect and no skin ...

plucking and odd behavoir  My male scarlet 3 years old. I went to feed him yesterday and he was doing his little cry like im out of food and dying. So I went over to fill his bowl ...

Do I really need a vet?  My bird is quiet and he isn't eating as much food. Could this just be because it is hot now and not cold like it used to be? Do they eat less food when ...

mealy parrot 9mons ols  my mealy parrot has a swollen left eye to the point of closed not eating and today he started to spit up clear liquid

my baby rainbow lorikeets are regurgitating food while i feed it  my 4 week old baby lorikeets are regurgitating a little bit of their food between each spoon full i give them they seem to be alright they have been doing ...

cockatiel not taking weaning process well?  i have three cockatiel chicks that are the offspring of two lovely cockatiels i have had for a long time. they hatched around april 28th, 2009. i had ...

Missing neck feathers  Our parakeet, Tweety, of about 7 years of age has no feathers around his neck and under his wings. We believe a cage mate may have done it, but we have ...

treatment for injured ringneck  other ringnecks attacked this bird and have biten its face is there something we can bath it with we have removed it from avairy there is no avian vet ...

Our Grey is laying unfertilized eggs  Our "male" grey is 18 years old and laid an egg on Friday. The pet store said to take it away and we did. Today there is another one. Will this hurt ...

Cokatiel pecking own feet   I HAVE A MALE COCKATIEL WHO OCCASSIONLLY PECKS HIS OWN FEET. HE DOES NOT LIVE IN A CAGE BUT HAS A LARGE ARE TO PLAY AND A GYM SET, FAKE TREE BRANCHES,...

Female budgerigar sleeps all day but is eating well  Hello, I have a five year old female budgeriar here in Australia. She had a bad moult with a lot of spikey new feathers and was very unwell during this....

African Grey Congo has a cold  I've had my Venus for 14yrs. She is a very happy healthy parrot. She has a discharge from her nose. She does not show any signs of distress and her behavior ...

Cages  I own a King powder coat cage. In transit, during a move, some bars were scratched. Not wanting rust I painted them with trials of various special enamels....

gorilla glue?  I made my bird a ladder, out of wood we use for our chimenea. I used gorilla glue, not thinking..and now im wondering if that might not be good for the ...

Very Rough Crusty Cere/Beak and Legs  Do you think my parakeet has mites?

She has a very rough crusty Cere/Beak and her legs are also rough scaley callius like. She is not as hyper as before,...

cockatoo bleedeing  my female 6 year old cockatoo is bleeding, almost like a period, what can i do?

Help! Why did my two lovebirds die?!  They were acting normal.. tweeting, eating, sleeping happy etc and then they both died suddenly 2 days apart.
Here's some info that may help with the ...

Beautiful Cockateil baby died  I bought my Cockateil last week i imagine that he was about 8 weeks old he was hand reared, last night he regurgitated his seed and it looked undigested,...

Beak Clicking  My bird will sometimes (most of the time) just sit where ever she is and click her beak, constantly. It gets to be very annoying when the room is silent....

sore eye in my cockateil  one of my birds eyes is larger than the other one and looks sore and red what can I do to help him thanks Edwina

falling off her stick  my parrot keeps loosing balance and falling off her stick three times a day.

cockatoo  My cockatoo seems to be scratching around her face .and losing feathers around her face.
We have had her since xmas and she doesn't seem to be very old...

budgie arthritis?  i think my pet budgie has arthritis. it hurts her to bend her foot and her foot is really pale compared to the other one. the grip is worse too! Also, whenever ...

Help my two masked lovebirds died!!  I'm so upset and I want to know what was wrong..
Firstly my lovebirds were young like 4-8 yrs old.
My male lovebird (bluey)died Wed 8 Jan then the female ...

Sun conure baby had crooked neck, normal?  I want to know if it is normal that one of my babies bird sun conures they turned 3 weeks old, noticed one of baby had crooked neck and all way back on ...

Lovebird Makes Weird noises and takes a large poop  My adorable lovebird Figo, made some weird noises or two minutes like clicking noise like figo was having some breathing problems, I tried to give him ...

can i give my conure wine for him to talk  i have a peach conure and my moms parents used to give thier parrots wine for them to talk should i do it

can i give my conure wine for him to talk  i have a peach conure and my moms parents used to give thier parrots wine for them to talk should i do it

Can my bird be allergic to water?  When I try giving my bird a bath I use a luke-warm to cool water. When I put him in the water he goes into like a freezing mode and starts freaking out....

Parakeet head bobbing (regurgitating) sitting on bottom of cage  About two weeks ago (6/25/09) my bird quit eating, sat on bottom of cage in the corner and kept bobbing her head up and down which seemed to bring up a ...

foot/leg paralysis in lovebird - more info sought  For the past 3-4 days, my 16 year old pf lovebird has been seeing a critical care vet who specializes in exotics. Although my bird is in critical condition,...

How do I know if their in love?  As i wrote earlier on this website, when i wrote about how I forced my birds inside the nesting box, which now i realized was a mistake. and have also ...

My male cockatiels wing bubbles?  A few years ago I accidentaly forgot to bring my male cockatiel inside with the cage. The next morning I found my male cockatiel with a bleeding wing and ...

how do i know if my cockatiels have an illness.  my female cockatiel sneezes every once in a while , does she have a sines infection?

when my brids are on a perch , sometimes they pick thier feathers ...

Hurt Eyelid(CLEO)  My African Grey Parrot must have gotten into a tiff with my cockatiel parrot yesterday afternoon while i was at work. My mother was with them and they ...

my birds nesting issues  I've forced my cockatiels to get into their nesting box. My female attacks my male cockatiel when inside of the box. I wanted to know why?

BringingHomeANewBaby  I will be bringing home a new GCC in about 8 weeks. I have a parrot who has been vet checked recently and all blood work and test came back excellent. The ...

Gouldian Finch - standing on right leg only - left leg weak  I have a Gouldian finch who began standing only on his right let, holding his left leg up constantly. I checked his nails and they appear to be of normal ...

Nepal Pheasant foot problem  Greetings, i have this Nepal Pheasant that developed lumps on her toes. I thought this may pass but she has toes that look like clubs, or fingers on a ...

Has not been to a avian vet yet.  Good Morning,

I have a little quaker parrot named "Peppy". He is 3 years old this past May. He has not been to a avian vet as of yet.
Should I ...

Alexandrine Ringneck - Top of head looks like losing feathers  My Alexandrine Ringneck has received a good bill of health by our vet less than 1 month ago and she is 5 months old.

I noticed that the top of her head ...

possibility of a cockatiel getting pink eye  i was thinking of adopting two cockatiels from the humane society i called on them today i was told that one of them gets a red eye and then it goes away ...

Need Help  Its Sunday and no vets are open. My 6 year old cocketiel has been acting weird. When we went to pick her up, her head started to twitch and she crash landed ...

different size  why is my female skinnier than my male lovebird

Scratching and Stretching of wings  It's already very sad that one of my peach faced lovebird died and I'm worried for the one left. I'm wondering if the one that died has some ailment that ...

Nanday throwing up his food  Hi, I have a 10 year Nanday Conure, male, who has started throwing up his seed in big clumps. He eats, then goes over to his favorite rope and lightly ...

sooth skin  My old cockatiel has had poop stuck to her bum last couple of days so have been soaking it off in warm water, it there anything that gets the poop of easier?...

Whats wrong? Seizures?  I have had my cockatiel for two years now and he is the sweetest bird you could ever imagine. I love him dearly but something has been troubling me. He ...

brown lovebird  why would my female lovebird turn brown? She did this afew months before she started laying egge and now she is doing it atain. Is this a hormone thing?...

swolen leg  what should I do if my parrot has a swolen foot can I give him antibiotec if yes which one I need a name

african grey cutting nails  my african grey had shsrp like half an inch and my uncle who used to take care of agc so,he cut a little peice of my african grey nail and he started bleeding ...

Feather loss  I have a Green Ring neck parrot for last 1 year. He started losing feather for last 4-5 months. Now he has bald patches around beak, eyes and over head ...

indian ring neck parrot eggs are older than 23 days  Hello, this is my first attempt with broodering. I owned a male ringneck for 28 years. I just decided that I did not want to lose him with out having an ...

Alexandrine Parakeet strange behaviour  It sleeps with its heads bent and rests it upon its back. he keeps on biting and plucking its feathers.What should i do? Is that normal?
Has a few hairs ...

My lovebird has irritation on her rear end,   My female lovebird is haveing irritation in her rear end , she is constantly picking at her end . I examined her and i noticed that her rear is bright ...

Sneezing Green Cheek bird...  Hello, and sorry to bother you. I have a Green Cheek bird that keeps sneezing. I have taken him to the vet, and put him on anti-biotics, but it doesnt ...

runny nose, dried mucus on beak  My african grey congo has had runny nose since I got her. She was born in feb 09. The runny nose has gotten worse, now theres dried mucus on beak acumulating....

Discolored Stool  My pet bird is 3 yrs. old and its stool looks a little red. It never used to look like this. Should I be concerned? What is wrong?

limping parrot  my parrot limping what to do

green cheek conure  My green cheek conure's stomach feathers are either falling off or she is pecking them off and i want to know if that is a problem?

parakeet  do I need to see a vet and does it absolutely need shots

sick cockatoo????  my dads cockatoo is drinking heaps more water than usual and his poo is a much lighter green than normal,hes had him for ages and never seen him do this,...

Cut Neck  hi my name is justin i have two baby lovebirds.I got them about two days ago.my one lovebird(PEACH) has a cut.there are no feathers there so im not sure ...

Bumble foot  My vet told me my parkeet may have bumle foot. What r your suggestions for cure?

overnight feather loss  My two year old female scarlet macaw has, overnight, plucked out most of her body feathers.

We've had her for a year and a half. We often take her out ...

molting  The quaker parrot 3 y.o. removes a lot of feathers from legs belly and chest. He is itching really bad. We drove him to the vet and had bloodwork done....

kidney again   the vets that i have spoken to have said oh just kill the animal so now i am even more scared so could you advise me to another vet please i am bebbing ...

My bird is loosing skin  Hello good afternon, I am concerned about my african grey, she's loosing white skin, what can I do to help her.

Thank you, Maria

Asparagus and cabbage, how long do toxic chemicals on last fruit trees  Hi, I accidentally ran across this site, IT IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. I have a 6 1/2 (?) yr old lilac crowned Amazon, "Jack" - I rescued him from Humane ...

Constipated Budgie  Hello, I have 2 budgies, one female and one male but it seems like my male budgie is constipated. I noticed he isn't pooping as much and when he does,...

feather growth  I bought a young sun conure. The tail and wing feathers do not seem to be growing back properly. It seems that the problem consists of her left side because ...

kidney  A vet has told me that my parrots 1 kidney is bigger than it should be and i am scared so can you please advise me as well it is pushing on nervs so that ...

Blood on beak, black dots in mouth  My cockatiel has a small black lesion on his tongue and what seems to be dried blood on his beak. He doesn't whistle or sing very often anymore either....

6 month old cockatiel weak  Hello this morning i got up and my cockatiel was acting funny very tired not talking and weak. He/she is a very active bird up until today. he/she ate ...

Parakeet claw problem  Bird's claw/leg got crushed behind cuttle bone in cage. Took to vet who said to give it pain med for a week. they were not sure if broken or not. Injury ...

Lovebird with seizures  my lovebird has seizures--- i am a senior citizen & the bird needs some testing among bloodtest.
unfortuenly i am on a budget--- couyld you please help ...

lovebird discolored beek  I have a 2 yr old lovebird and she is constantly rubbing her tongue against the inside of her beek. she seldom has her mouth closed. also, she has some ...

stuffy nose  my 11 yr. old macaw sounds like he has a stuffy nose..should i run a himidifier around him or something?

Quaker Parrot plucking issues.  My quaker parrot "Mango" just started plucking about 4 days ago. He is just about to turn 2 in a couple of months. He has been seen by a vet and is ...

My bule-and-gold macaw won't eat.  My blue-and-gold macaw won't eat,but my avian vet says he's not sick,what do i do?

Pressure sores on feet  I have 5 cockatiels all in a very large cage indoors. They have a variety of natural branches in their cage, one dowling perch and a couple of small calcium/...

Stress Bars on Baby Green Cheeked  I purchased a 3 1/2 month old baby Green Cheeked Conure from our local bird store. He/She is very social and friendly, and is acting perfectly healthy,...

Something fell on my bird!  Today, we let our bird fly freely around the house. Though, we left the door open to our toy room and he flew inside! A toy car fell on top of him, but ...

Cockatail  Im not sure if its an emergency or not, but we have baby cockatail birds and this little one opens its mouth like if it was grasping for air, and i have ...

One conure plucking the other conure  I saw your answer regarding a conure plucking itself, but what are your recommendations for a conure plucking its "brother?"

I have two green cheek ...

My Austrailian female lovebird  yesterday at 6/13/09 at 12:00 i came home and wanted to get my birds because i bought them a toy and i saw my female lovebird with a eye bruised i think ...

my bird has a red lump on head  my bird has a red lump on head

My lovebird eggs keep half hatching, and then the babys die because the babys are not ready yet. :( Why does this happen?  Is It okay if only one lovebird hatches out of 5 fertile eggs? because the others all died....:(

My Sun Conure has a big chest  Hello,

My Sun Conure has a big chest, he blows it out when he wants and he looks like a pigeon. Should I be worried? Is this an air pocket or is this ...

Abadoned baby sparrow  I found a baby sparrow yesterday. There were no signs of supervision. He seems healthy, except for his right eye. It has been shut! It's hard to determine ...

Symmetrical Lumps on Top of Cockatiel's Wings Near Back  Hi. After I had given my Cockatiel, Kirby, a bath, I noticed spots on her wings. I moved the feathers out of the way and saw two spots on both wings in ...

Female Gouldian, 1 year old, swelling and feather loss over rt. eye  My Female Blue Back/Black Head Gouldian has swelling over her right eye the size of a small pea since 5/14/09. It almost looks like a small boil. She tries ...

caique being sedated at 10 weeks  Do vets normally put a 10 week old caique under sedation when being x ray? I brung my caique to his a new vet because he was really weak. They said they ...

Bubble in Neck?  I have 4 baby cockatoos that I am handfeeding..I've been feeding for 12 years..while feeding the babies, an air sac appears in the side of their neck and ...

hand raised cockatiel got cooking oil in body  Coco our cockatiel had kinda flies around kitchen benches and unfortunately last night i had a cooled cooking oil(deep frying) in a pan and she must landed ...

parakeet bill peeling  It appears my male blue parakeet ( under 2 years) has peeling of his bill. The peeling just hangs there. Should I pull it off and oil his bill? Is this ...

conure parrot gender  how do i tell what sex it is

budgies who love green beans  our budgies love the seeds inside of green beans. I have been offering this to them most days for several years now because they love them. I see beans ...

how is the best way to handle and travel with my sun conure in a car?  i am picking a sunconure from a personal party and i was wondering what was the best way to travel with him in a car travel time is est. 1 and a half hoursm ...

death  i have 3 peach faced love birds i purchased a Lutino love bird and put them in the same cage (first mistake) they fought some but the were together`for ...

Baby Lovebird Foot  Hi, I have a baby lovebird from the last clutch that I hand-fed and raised that is now a day over 8 weeks old. He/she will not open it's foot properly ...

Older conure spending alot of time on cage bottom  Larry is a 20 year old green cheek and periodically spends vast ammounts of time on the bottom of his cage. Normally he tears up the newspaper or throws ...

egg laying  My peach face has been acting strangely over the last few weeks (fluffed up feathers on bottom of cage) and her bum was swollen and red. Today we found ...

Parakeet missing feathers around neck  Hi,
My parakeet is missing feathers around her neck and on her stomach. On her stomach I can see her sking underneath. Her partner just died, could this ...

Sun conure with hurt leg  I noticed just yesterday that my sun conure 4 months old is favoring his right foot/leg, he does still walk on it just with less pressure then before, and ...

taking to vet  AT what age should a baby cockatiel be safe to take in the car to the vet to be checked? we have 4 that are 4 weeks old

Caique with swollen crop after laying many eggs  Hello, My 9 year old wb caique has laid 8 eights in the pass 2 months and now here chest or crop area is very very full and will not go down and she is ...

Little Corella with lump on eye-ring.  Hi, My Little Corella has a lump near her eye. It is ovoid in shape and appears to be under the skin, rather than a growth above. The skin covering the ...

My cockatiel has dirrhea  My 4 month old cockatiel is sneezing and has diarrhea could it caught my cold?

My male cockatiel stopped singing but otherwise is acting normal.   Mo my year old male tiel stopped singing 2 days ago. He is normally VERY vocal so this is very strang for him. I did notice that he was shivering a tiny ...

6 month old parakeet with black toe nail and swollen toe  I just noticed today that my parakeet has a black toe nail and it looks like it could be infected it looks as though its drying up to fall off but im also ...

Sun Conures beak  My sun conures beak is changing from all black to white iv had him for 3 weeks and i asked the owner befor me if this has happned before and he said no....

Red Spots on a Lovebird  If a peach faced lovebird has red spots all over the bird what do you do? Is is bad or serious?

Senegal Parrot losing feathers  Hello,

My 8 year old Senegal Parrot has been losing feathers around her neck. At times the feathers appear to be growing back...only to disappear a ...

Severe Macaw will not wean  I have a 7 month old sever macaw that will absolutely not wean. I bought him from a store owner that I purchased my 2 other parrots from and she handfed ...

black beak  My mom parakeet's beak is turning black

how to tell if a baby blue naped is not healthy?  i have a baby blue naped parrot(4 weeks or more)
when i first aquire him/her it is very noisy(screeching) when i feed it. but after a week it never screech ...

Half moon conure losing orange feathers above nare  I have a 17 year old half moon conure in generally good health. He's in the middle of his spring molting and we just noticed that nearly all the orange ...

Moody Cockatiel   I have had my cockatiel for about a year now. He has always been so sweet and affectionate. He would let me pet him behind the head and he would never ...

budgie cage and pet shop health.  Hi recently i have decided to buy a budgie is a cage the size of 16x17x18 too small also when i was at the petshop i noticed a budgie had a deformed cere ...

rescued cockatiel chronic scraping roof of mouth until bleeds with tallon  I rescued a male cockatiel about a month ago (I had one for 22 yrs befor it passed) is chronically scraping the roof of it's mouth with it's toe tallon ...

question about a Senegal  I have noticed a bald spot on the frontside neck of my 18 year old Senegal. I am also concerned about possible weight loss. Otherwise, he is active and ...

rubbing himself  I have a male parakeet that was given to me by my sister so I have no idea his age. I give him lots of toys and he is very social and almost seems to get ...

my ringneck parrot shos signs of flu  I have a green ringneck parrot he shows symptoms of flu. he will hold his head up and swallow a few times. it also seems that he is getting cold. he had ...

broken wing feathers  How can we keep our bird from flying and breaking her flight feathers?????

Sick Parakeet, watery stool  My bird has had very watery stool for about a month and he started to get better. But now he seems disoriented and losing his balance. Is an avian vet ...

crop not emptying  my african grey had an episode where he fell back off his perch down to the bottom,and then as soon as he had realised wat happened he was fine,he has ...

lump comming out of cockatials nose  there is a bloody lump comming from my birds nose.
i have moved the lump around a bit and it seems the inside of the nostril is blocked and is swollen ...

Beak was cut too short   Today I accidentally clipped my parakeets beek too short and he is now bleeding every time he begins to eat. What can I do?

New Buddies for a Budgie  So, I'm getting two new friends for my budgie Loki. She's about 2.5/3 years old, and the new keets are about 3 or 4 months old. I'm getting them from a ...

bugie foot  male bugie 5yrs old, his left foot,when sitting on his perch his claws are'nt gripping,his front claw seem's to stick out.When i picked him up,sat him ...

Small/deformed claws?  One of my quaker parrots seems to have very small, stunted claws compared to my other one, and she seems to be missing one or two altogether on her back ...

Suspected Tumor  My cockatoo has a lump on his right shoulder. I just noticed yesterday when I was hosing him. I took him to the vet he says that it is not a feather cyst ...

African grey with cut eye lid  my african grey has cut is eye lid open on 1 of his toys should i bave it if so what is best. hope u can help thank you.

Puffy parakeet??  Hi, I have 3 parakeets. Which I've read tons about and they are part of the Parrot family. Anyway, one of the three birds has been strangely puffy. When ...

Black dots  Our new parakeet seems to have formed three small black dots on its neck and one over its eye. What might this be?

Probs after wing clipping  I'm trying to help a friend. She recently bought a 2 month old Green Cheek and his primary flights were clipped even with the secondary flights. He acts ...

liver dease using milk thisle  budgie with liver dease and milk thisle , she weighs 25 grams and has been seen by a top avain vet in ca , however knowing that she will have this problem ...

about my cockatiel  my cockatiel has swollen up around his neck and body he is also missing feathers around his neck, it has been going on for 2 days now his legs are purple ...

english budgies advice on health, and food problems  i have two english bugies a male and female and the isuess are as folows
hi i have two enlish bugie parakeets a female and male both around 7 to 8 months ...

symtoms a bird hasw hen it has parasites  what symptoms does a bird have when they have parasites

Balding around Eye of Cockatiel  We have recently put a male in with our female. Their behavior has been very civil. Today we noticed she has many feathers missing around her eye on one ...

3rd clutch of eggs laid in short period of time  My cockatiel hen has just started her 3rd clutch of eggs.
While she shares the cage with a male the first 2 times eggs were not fertile. My concern is ...

small conure has balding on back of neck-  please be adivsed this happened yrs ago with another conure here and he got a shot and almost died, he went into shock. then vet had to give another shot ...

Quaker vet visits?  How many times a year does a Quaker parrot need to see a vet?

Baby conure ALWAYS screaming!!  I have a 45-50 day baby sun conure and he is always screaming!! I've had him for about a week, and I took him to the vet for a check-up, everything seemed ...

3 year old cockatiel began panting and later died  We had two cockatiels, one male (Nibbles - on the ladder) and a female (Bubbles - on the perch). I clipped their nails tonight, which upset the female....

Does my cockatiel have mites? How do I help?  My 11 year old cockatiel started out with inlamed nostrilsabout a month ago. Then he started to loose the feathers around his nose a couple weeks ago. I ...

Alexandrine Ring Neck  I received your response and I sincerely appreciate you quick response.

My Alexandrine was born on February 14th, 2009. And at this time weighs about ...

6 month old severe macaw   My 6 month old severe macaw still will not eat solid food and I am still handfeeding it with a syringe. My first question, is it alarming it still has ...

Alexandrian Ring Neck  I just brought home my Alexandrine Ring Neck. I am taking her to the vet in 2 days. Can you tell me what test I should have done. Any vacinations?

Eye scratching.  My Mitred conure has recently started scratching at his eye. He is 30 years old, and has never been sick. I noticed the white skin around his eye is ...

Green Cheeked Conure eating sand  We have a sandbox in our backyard, and our one-year-old bird loves to eat the sand whenever he's out there. Will this harm him? He appears happy and healthy,...

swelling near vent  i have a congo african grey that has developed swelling by the kiel bone and vent area right below the belly.I have always believed him to be male (didn'...

drainage on wing  our budgie has a yellowish drainage on wing- red appears under the feathers as if the skin is irritated.

sudden death in young conure  We lost our beloved green cheeked conure Dizzy on Tuesday night. We went to bed and he was fine and behaving normally . I found him dead in his cage in ...

4 month old blue gold --swollen neck  Please help we just got a 4mnth blue&gold on 3(80cc)feedings a day. about an hour or so after feeding tonight we noticed her neck swollen(like a bubble ...

Iodine?  I wrote previously about my Indian Ringneck's foot.
At first his skin on one foot looked like it was peeling. A day later it was red, then became a small ...

cockatiel bald under wings watery poops   hi my cockatiel has watery poops and is bald under wings and is biting like she has mites there is two cockatiels in the cage only one has this do you ...

baby macaw with possible inner ear infection  Hi, I have a baby B & G macaw that rears its head to the left, and is slightly off balance. I have an appointment for Tuesday with our avian vet, is this ...

my baby sun conure's crop is not emptying on time ??   Hello Sir ! I just got a 4 week old sun conure baby from my friend who bought it for hand feeding and could not do the job so gave it to me. I have a little ...

bites  my rainbow lorikeet never bites me but when mi friend is around he nevr bites her but bites me and sometimes makes me bleed. y?

my quaker parakeet is soooo quiet why???  my quaker every now and then have his quiet days and doesnt squawk or talk just stays in his cage and very quiet and then by supper time is his usual self ...

cockatiel  my female albino cockatiel is bald under wings has watery poops and overgrown nails i have another male gray cockatiel which is fine and has none of the ...

Vomiting parakeet  Hi my name is Vincent and my blue parakeeet is intermittently puking up a yellow mixture. He is about three and a half years old and he isn't drinking ...

liquid poo again  this may seem long but please read. Ok my name is sandra and I'm concerned about my hanhs macaw parrot well you see my parrot tajj has started off by ...

male australian lovebird  i just got my lovebirds and didnt clip my pair of lovebirds and i let them out in the livging room (usualy do)and i wanted them back in the cage by opening ...

what is this??  My budgie has devloped a small lump on the side of his beak near the mouth i didnt relise untill we got home on the 26 of april at night i thought i should ...

can a yellow head amazon mate with a patagonia conure  i have been given a pair of patagonia conures and a yellow headed amazon, one of the pattys want to be with the amazon and the amazon wants to be with ...

losing her feathers  hello i have a year old lovebird and she seems to be losing her feathers around her face and head . she is in with a male lovebird could he be the cause?...

Small bump/dot on my sun 5 month old conure, mid-chest  Hi,
I have just seen a Small bump/dot on my sun 5 month old sun conure's, mid-chest. what is this?does this mean male or female? it is pinkish/the color ...

small baby  I have two baby java doves that the mom hatched, one is smaller than the other and less developed, I can't find anywhere that it says they will abandon ...

my Quaker parrot is bitten badly.please help him  Hi my bird is a Quarker parrot and he is bitten on the neck by a rat what should I do and were should I go i live in the bronx and need your help. Thank ...

blue amazon parrot  my blue amazon parrots(male) beak is getting long, does it need to be cliped?

cockatiel hit window  new cockatiel flew into the window. now he shakes his head. no pain if I touch it. What do I do? What is wrong that he does this?
Is it serious?
Thank ...

cockatiel with sore red neck under feeathers?  Bella was brought at christmas time 2008 it was about 3 months old.

It now has a red sore spot under the feathers on the neck.

We have put some ...

Sudden Black Foot  My parakeet recently developed a black foot which he has now not been able to bear weight on....he only used the opposite leg to stand....and now that ...

Parakeet limping on right foot  Hi, I have a 9 yr old female parakeet, had her since she was about 1yr old, she's been very healthy over the years but around (Oct.2008) I noticed she ...

my parakeet got stepped on  earlier today my son accidently stepped on our parakeet, we have since keep it in the cage and kept it covered, her feet have turned purple now though ...

lumps  i have recently notice that my parro( gloden headed amazon) has a large growth like lump under above his nose, just under his eye. Do you know what this ...

new finches  I just brought home two new baby finches and they seem fine but I am wondering if I should be concerned. They have been in their new habitat for 24 hours....

hot feet  hello,
my rainbow lorikeet (5mths old) seems to have hot feet. i have only noticed it since i come home from work today. he is eating and preening himself ...

My lovebird's leg is bleeding.  Hi there, i have 2 peach faced lovebird, and they were fighting, and one got bit on the leg. and i have now seperated them both. But one has a bleeding ...

Allergic to Harrison's?  Hello, I have written a few times in regards to problems I have been having with my Sun Conure (itching all over, constant stretching, sneezing, constantly ...

sore foot  A week ago I noticed that my Indian ringneck was favoring one leg. It looked like the skin was peeling on one toe. The next day it was quite red and seemed ...

Weather  can finch type birds be kept in outdoor aviary in California weather?

Thanks.

JC

Mating Behavior  I have two Sun Conures. They just reached there maturity level and have been rubbing there feathers all over my hands. I put them in there cage when ...

Head Injury  Female Amazon flew full force into a window and is very disoriented. We are scared that if we take her to a vet, that they will euthanize her. Her mate ...

Soy  Hi, There are a lot of concerns raised on the net and elsewhere about the use of Soy products in hand rearing formula and pellets. It has been suggested ...

found budgie, paralyzed legs, will not eat?  i found a budgie being attacked by crows. both of its legs are paralyzed. it will not eat, but its drinking water with a small amount of glucose in it....

Seed in Parrotlet's Feces  We don't have any avian vets where I live or anywhere accessible. We've had our 9 year old parrotlet to a local vet who does get involved with birds. He ...

stain over right eye  My parakeet has a wine color stain over her right eye and a little over the nose. I just want to know what it could be.

thank you
Gaby

Unusual behavior from 7 YO female Solomon Ekkie  Rescued her last May. Straight to the vet - dozen different infections, zinc toxic, malnourished/underweight. Chelation worked, Baytril worked, had to ...

parrots tongue is very swollen  parrots tongue is very swollen and he is not happy

Cockatiels  I have a pair of cockatiels which have just had babies, they are now 15, 13 and 10 days old. Its seems to me like they are mating again. Is this possible ...

Matted feathers and undigested food in feces  Once again my cockatiel is ill. She was treated for giardia in Jan. and seemed to recover. Friday night I noticed she wasn't eating and the feathers around ...

Smoking around birds  i am very ashamed to say it but i own two beautiful canaries, and I smoke around them.
One of my canaries started showing signs of breathing hard. He ...

How long do Peach Faces Live?  I have had my bird for 18 years and was told this is very old for these birds? The small holes at the nose one of them has a growth that is getting larger,...

sick bird  We have spent over $900.00 on our red headed amazon. We have not gotten the blood test or other test back but their seems to be no answer from the expert ...

Bleeding   The Jarrine is plucking his feathers around his neak and is beeding as a result.

My parakeet keeps scratching face and beak seems overgrown  We bought her (I think it's a she but what do I know) from Petsmart 2 weeks ago. We were told she was a baby but again we aren't that bird savy... anyhow ...

cockatiel bad eye  my cockatiel is having a problem opening her eye. the other eye is fully open. What happened? I am giving her warm compress and right after the compress,...

Quaker who is scratching his cloaca constantly  I have a 6 yr old quaker male who is almost constantly rubbing his cloaca on branches like he's horribly itching. What can I do? Is this a sign of a yeast ...

My parakeet.  Im sorry to ask this question but, my parakeet was attaked by my 7 month old dog and there are very few mark on my bird, and hardly and blood on him. But ...

is my bird sick  Is my bird sick? She has a brown nose, and its feekin me out. Its been brown for a month, can you help me? I want her to get better, no matter the cost....

Cockatiels lame foot  Our 4 yr (single)old tiel Misty laid several eggs within the last two weeks and as I always do I built her a little cardboard home for her to be alone ...

excessive egg laying  my 29 yr. old blue and gold macaw will stop laying eggs.until 11/2007 she had only layed 1 egg, at present the total is 30 eggs. i have tried removing ...

golden conure abnormal feather  Hi,my name is joe.I have some question about my nine-months-old golden conure,candy.I find her some new yellow feathre to mix abnormal green color.
I ...

shaft of tail feather splitting  I have a blue and gold macaw, approximately 35 years old, in good health and happy. One of his longest tail feathers is splitting at the shaft. He pulled ...

toys  hello i am just interest in whether the toys with lots of coloured string (i think they are ment for preening practice) are any good for birds because ...

Lovebird is losing feathers and started plucking  On March 6, I was at a livestock auction and someone was selling a lovebird in a homemade small cage. I have several parrots at home and felt so sad for ...

14 day old baby cockateil  i took baby out of box to raise on my own,now,i find i just cant do it ofter 1 day!mama n daddy bird are still crying.can i return the baby now?to parents?...

Bird Hump or Molting....  I have a white face cockatiel and recently she has been laying eggs but we noticed she has a big hump on the back of her neck area. Then we noticed 3 days ...

Baytril and Sun Conure  Hello I had written approximately a week ago in regards to my vet prescribing Baytril to my Sun Conure. After a week on the antibiotics I noticed her droppings ...

Special Care for older aging parrots (orange winged)  I was wondering is there special things to do for an ageing parrot in his mid thirties. He does seem to scratch more, but has never plucked any of his ...

lovebird lead poison  Regarding my previous question with my lovebird with kidney desease. He had injested lead and his kidneys is now damaged. He has seen several vets and ...

lovebird with failing kidneys  My lovebird has been sick for 2 and a half years with failing kidneys. The vet cannot treat his problem. I usually put Milk thistle in his drinking water....

My birds nose bleeds at times  My bird sometimes bleeds rights from his nose it never drips it just goes right under the nostril and he doesnt act like it huts him when you touch it,...

Cockateil has lump on her side  My 9 year old cockateil gets stressed out and plucks her feathers on the left side. A large bump has appeared. It's happened before and has eventually ...

parrots and eggs  how long does a parrots eggs hatch?.

droppings  why did my female lovebirds poo black?

cockatiel with sores under wings  I recently took in a 12 year old cockatiel as his elderly owner had gone into a home. I had hoped he would settle in my aviary with my other cockatiels ...

why my sun conure baby is not growing  why my sun conure baby is not growing he is 5 weeks old but look like 12 days old

My lovebird does not seem to be eating a lot...  I just brought home two 4 month old lovebirds, one dutch blue and one peach faced. They both lived together in the same cage before i got them but now ...

Redness around the nostrils of a Blue & Gold Macaw  My blue and gold macaw, who I recently adopted from an owner who could no longer care for him, has some redness around his nostrils and abit on his cheeks,...

Conure picking at his feet  My fiance and I have a cherry headed conure. Many months ago he started mutilating his feet. Originally we thought it might be a toy bleeding out on ...

Mating problems  I have three male bird a love bird,2 cockatiel and one female sun conure in a seperate cage.The male love and one cockatiel keep humping solid objects ...

Bleeding tail feather  My parakeet flies around and sometimes lands on his tail. Today he landed on it and it started bleeding. We don't know what to do. He still hops around ...

Scratched Eye  My 13 yr. old Blue-Gold Macaw has a large scratch under his left eye where I believe he scratched it with his toe. He is not tame because the elderly ...

Egg laid today  I came home from work and Buddy my quaker laid an egg. She is 9 yrs old. I just got her from a rescue in Feb., so I don't know if this is a first for her....

Female Eclectus Plucking Question  I recently received a female eclectus from someone who could not take care of her anymore. She has been a feather plucker for a few years apparently and ...

Sick Budgie  Hey there
i have 2 budgie a dad and a daughter the dad is about 7 and the daughter is about 4.
They both have small crusty lumps where there tail meets ...

Baytril and Re-establishing Healthy Bacteria   Hello, I had written previous regarding some issues I am having with my Sun Conure (straining to pass droppings/not sleeping at night). She eats Harrison'...

Straining to Pass Droppings, Not Sleeping at Night  Hello again, I had previous wrote in regards to my concerns with Aspergillosis and Papillomas. You had mentioned "empiracally treating" for Giardia and ...

Puffy Ears  About two weeks ago, one of our 13-year old Cockatiels named, Bonnie, passed away. A couple days ago I noticed that our other Tiel, Clyde's head is slightly ...

parakeet fingers on one leg getting stiff  I have a little blue parakett that I have had since 1991 when I had cancer. His beak has grown very long. His one leg, I noticed the fingers that curl ...

eyelid scratch in my lovebird  hi.my lovebird has eyelid injury on its one eye.it is red and it wants to scratch all the time.I am seeing that there is an injury on its one eyelid so ...

crop not emptying  I have a 32yr old orange winged amazon, Last year about this time I noticed vomit in his cage and his crop enlarged. Took him to avian vet did tests which ...

Egg laying  My Green cheek conure is 11 years old and started laying eggs for the first time. She is not very big and has already laid 4 eggs and looks like she has ...

My budgie is opening and closing her beak a lot.  Hello there,

My budgie has begun opening and closing her beak sort of quickly, kind of like she is talking. I wouldn't think much of it but she is doing ...

swollen stomach  We have an African Grey that is now 14 years old. Quite a talker and loves to sing and whistle. For four days, doesn't talk, whislte or sing and then ...

Cockatiel Droppings Collecting around his butt  My cockatiel is about 13 years old now. And over the past few days i have noticed that he has been more reserved and distant from the other bird. He also ...

green wing macaw feathers  I have a green wing macaw and it seems that is going to be a pretty big line of baldness on the back of its head . i was wondering if this matters for ...

Aspergillosis and Papillomatosis Questions  I am having trouble getting a diagnosis in regards to my Sun Conure. Her blood work has come back normal and PCRs for Clostridia and Gardia have been negative....

GCC with a new balance problem  Jade is approx 6yrs old. I have had her for 3 yrs. This afternoon she seemed fine, a few hours later she was having problems keeping her balance. She is ...

Wing paralysis?  I have a 7-year-old cockatiel who seems to be in perfect health, but lately her wings fail her. She doesn't fan or open them, and she will fall to the ...

shelter - Lovebirds need a mate?  do peach face love birds need a mate with them or they could be alone?what kind of toyes do they like to play with?)

umbrella cockatoos face swollen 33 year old m  I noticed yesterday his face was puffy around one side of his beak and under his eye a little. It doesnt seem to bother him to bad but he has scratched ...

love bird  my love birding is eating his food then he spits it out, then he does it all over again.please help me

cockateil gets bubbles in eyes when sneezing  Hi there i have had my cockateil about for eight years, she would be nine years old now.
When she sneezes she does about twenty sneezes in a row and her ...

Feathers Turning Black  I have a 5 year old Sun Conure whose yellow feathers on her nape and some of the smaller feathers on top of her wings on both sides have turned from yellow ...

Sighing Noise when Stretching  Hello I was wondering if it is normal for a bird to let out "sigh" like noises during stretching? I have noticed my Sun Conure almost always lets out a ...

my bugie  my bugie sit at the bottom of his cage and he is makeing funny noises when he is breathing and it sleeps all day and nigth when i first have him he was ...

Egg Laying  My 14 year old Nanday Conure was laying eggs for about 2 months. She never came off the bottom of the cage after she stopped laying. After a month and ...

cockatiel sore eyes  i recently took my 4 month old cockatiel to the vet as he had what looked like an eye infection,with some sneezing.the vet prescribed baytril for 10 days....

my lovebird  My love bird died today but before he did he had his bone chest cavity sticking out i could feel the bone in the middle as if i had popped out his place....

Pellets  What kind of pellets do you recommend. I have heard Zupreem and Harrisons are good. Correct? I would like to get my 2 quakes off seed and onto a pellet ...

plant question  My parrotlet likes to hang-out in my hibiscus tree which is indoors until spring. I looked it up in your list and it is listed as the wood being safe ...

Parrots eyes  how do i know my parrot has healthy eyes?

Kidney Infection  My Blue Fronted Amazon has contracted an air born virus, kidney infection. She is being treated and improving daily. My question is her one leg has gone ...

Blue Fronted Amazon puffing up and making weird Noises.  Hi, Ive owned a blue fronted amazon for about 2 years now and lately he/she's been puffing his feather up and making weird noises. Like a studdering squeel ...

My African Grey is making a wierd noise  Hi,
My African Grey, Rudy, is making a new noise. He makes this growling like noise from deep inside his throat sometimes when I get near him or pet him ...

Installing tile  Hello, We have a cockatiel and a lovebird (our cocktiel is about one year old now and our lovebird will be a year in June). We need to retile our kitchen ...

cockatiel head bump, lost feathers  hello, my cockatiel was startled and flew into the door hard. he was dazed, but now shows all normal behavior except that he keeps losing feathers around ...

nail infection  My Umbrella Cockatoo has a nail that suddenly seemed much shorter and smaller then the others with a redish discoloration. What is this a sign of?

when to vaccinate?  Hello, I just got a Solomon Island Eclectus. I was wondering when do I need to take in my Parrot to get vaccinated? She was vaccinated on Aug 15,2008 and ...

Lilac crowned parrot  my parrot started getting a runny nose and is sneezing and he is always scrathcing one side of his face and he used to let me touch him and he used to ...

Timneh Parrot Seizure\Stroke  We have a timneh parrot that is about 27 years old. Tulla has always been in good health, and there have been no change to her environment or diet recently....

Fecal Sample and Giardia Testing  Hello, I am writing once again in regards to my Sun Conure and the bubbles in her droppings. I visited the vet on Sunday and ended up leaving with more ...

My bird is changing colour  I have a 10 month old Parakeet who was completely blue when I first got her in August at 4 months of age. Recently in the past 2 months she has started ...

Lose of feathers and crest  Hi my cockatoo has been well for the last year or so, but suddenly he is starting to malt because i do not see full feathers on the cage just white dust ...

cockatiel swollen eye  ive had my baby cockatiel for three weeks now.the day after i brought him,the area above his one eye was pink and slightly swollen.there was no discharge ...

Shifting leg lameness, excessive thirst  I have a five year old female cockatiel named Angel. Mid-October 2008, she started acting lethargic, not preening, and she lost weight (approx. 8 grams)...

Lorikeet eyes have gone yellow  My friend rescues wildlife and has had Henry a rainbow lorikeet for a number of years now. Last week he threw up and his eyes turned yellow. He has been ...

fruits and veggies  all the books say fruits and veggies. I would like a list of all the good fruits and veggies that I can give to parrotlets, finches, lovebirds and a cockatoo....

Large bump on Parakeet  Hello, About a month ago, I noticed that my male parakeet, who is at least 6 years old, has a bump in his abdomen area on the right side. It seems to ...

what is wrong  today i woke up and my cockateil isant talking or churping and has red nostrils, and is sneezing and breathing like he has a cold.but is still eating and ...

Parakeet with leg injury  my parakeet right leg might had been injured by the other two parakeets. his leg islarger then the left and hangs uoer the purch and he hops. he can put ...

Budgie's arthritis  My budgie keeps his toes in a ball. I think he has arthritis. How do I treat it?

lump on back of wing(main Issue) along with a little background i am new owner  My cockatiel who is about 10 wks old, (got her 2 wks ago). For one thing I notice that she itches and prines herself alot while we are holding her, bends ...

Rescued rainbow lorikeet  About 2 years ago i rescued a baby rainbow lori, and all has been well so far, but i never really handtrained him very well, he lets me scratch him, but ...

chronic cockatiel conjunctivitis  Hi, I have been working closely with a highly qualified avian vet for months trying to find an answer to why my cockatiel has chronic conjunctivitis. Bloodwork ...

Broken Wing?  How can I tell if our Amazon Parrot broke his wing or dislocated it or what? He just got his wings clipped and nails and beak trimmed. While bring him ...

about vets  you see, career day is coming up so can you help me by answering the following questions??:D



1.As a vet, how much years of medical school do ...

B&G Sneezing?  HI! i just recently got m first macaw. the previous owners had left her outside in a cold damp area. I have started to notice that when she gets worked ...

I think my lovebird has a broken toe  Hello, Two days ago I came home and found out that my bird cage had fallen to the floor twice. I have 2 lovebirds and one of them is laying eggs so we ...

Nanday conure with disease symptoms  hi, i would normally take a bird like this to a vet, but as it turns out, the bird is at a pet shop i work at, and i have no authority to take him (believe ...

Do Cockatiels "Spit" when they are angry?   Something odd happend this morning..
My Cockatiel was very angry at my husband.. (Bird is her name) she was sitting on the shower curtain rod. Lately ...

Yellow dots around the eye  I have an African Grey (Timneh) parrot. Lately I have noticed that he has some very tiny yellow spots around his eyes that is the white area. Is it just ...

baby peachface with few feathers  he holds one leg out straight. i can hold him with his leg bent under him but he straightens it out when i release him. is this caused by inbreeding. i ...

Taking Bird For A Blood Test/Chemistry Profile  Hello I had wrote earlier regarding bubbles in my Sun Conure's droppings and have taken your advice to see a vet for a thorough exam. I have an appointment ...

Swollen lovebird eye  My lovebird's eye is a bit swollen and is closed half way and it looks like she is having some trouble blinking but she spends most of her time inside ...

cockatiel  my cockatiel seems to have pale feet and is spending alot of time on the bottom of his cage quite dilusional he doesnt seem to have very ...

Sun Conure small bubbles in poop, Should I be worried?? Vet says no.  Hello I have a 5 year old Sun Conure who I have been working on converting from seed/healthy human food to Harrison's High Potency Fine.

At first ...

Cockatiels nesting supplies  We put purple egg crate cardboard in the nest box. It turned their water colored. Will this make our birds sick? We were just trying to give them some ...

crimson rosella  my crimson rosella has suddenly gone really quiet, he isnt flying around neither. he is walking around in his cage but that is it. he is nearly 2.

Conure claw turning red  The bottom of our conure's claw appears to be now red colored. He does not limp or act ill. Is there a problem??

Female Parakeet Rubs her rump repeatedly on the perch  Is this normal pre-spring behavior? She doesn't seem to be in any pain and she has a boyfriend in the cage. They are almost inseparable.The bird in question ...

my parakeet has a swellen foot, his body on perch for balance,  my parakeet has a swellen foot body on the prch, stsrts to loose balance but balancese his self back, hes in with his father. i put the other parakeet ...

solomon island eclectus female parrot  just above the top of my electus parrots beak, is a bald spot, it has what appear to be stubble, or prickly looking things there. she is 2 years old.this ...

Bubbles in poo   Hi, I have read as much as I can but cant seem to get much information.

Blue (African Grey) seems perfectly normal, is happy, chirpy, sleeping well,...

Cold sore on corner of mouth  I have a Goffin Cockatoo (Romeo) and a Blue Quaker (Tweety). They are housed during the day in an Extra Large Parrot Cage during the day. They retire ...

Is this bad or good?  well first off i have a red-lored amazon parrot. I have two questions, first one is when he poops it is a little watery, and one time it had brown in ...

Swollen eyelid on a African Grey Parrot  Above my CAGs left eye there is a lump. I dont know what it is, but its not an injury. After a while he closes that eye and leaves only one eye open, he ...

Cockatiel Sneezing  Hi, I've been keeping a male cockatiel since last year. It doesn't sneeze very often. But today, when i was carrying it, he sneezed on my chin. Fluids ...

quaker has a blue beak, some blood dried on one side of nostril.  I came home today and our parrot's beak looks blue, and there is dried blood on one side of nostril. He acts okay otherwise. Not talking hardly as much ...

parrotlet's age  Is there any way to tell how old a parrotlet is?

Health  I have had my Mitred Conure for about 20 years. When I bought her from a pet store (which is now out of business) she was not very nice. There were other ...

My Conures nose is bleeding  My boyfriend and i bought a conure a couple of months back. beautiful male 3 years old fun happy bird. his nose started bleeding randomly a couple of days ...

cockatiel mating  I have a pair of male and female cockatiels. I'm not sure how old they are, I bought them from someone that did not tell us whether or not they have laid ...

Sick Quaker  I have a quaker parrot about 3 years old. She had an infection and the vet was worried about hter nostils and that the infection might have caused irreversible ...

Half closed outer lid  I have an Alexandrine which has a half closed outer lid. I took him/her to the vet and gave him/her an eye ointment of cortisone/chlorophenicol and used ...

Eating  I recently (3 days ago) brought home an 8 week-old cockatiel that had been hand-fed and weened. The first day he just sat at the same spot on his perch ...

Patagonian Conure  I need to have my birds nails cut and have not been done for a long time.
I read that the blood vessel may therefore be at the tip.
Is it safe to cut ...

My birds was breathing funny  my birds were breathing funny they rolled on there side and looked as if they were having a seizure im worried because one died after the other we were ...

Budgie neck feathers  Hello! I'd like to know if my budgie could have mites or some illness, please. He has a patch of missing neck feathers, and I believe that he is molting ...

skin diseases  Dear Avian Vet,
I sold a pair of Love Birds a week ago, at the time of sold they are healthy and no sign of diseases but after three or four days, now ...

losing balance and feet not gripping tight   Our blue and gold macaw is just over a year old, for about the past month his feet don't seem to curl right all the time and they don't always grip well....

Discolored feathers?  I recently adopted an approximately 15 year old green-cheeked amazon parrot. I am "his" fourth (and permanent) home. I have only had him two weeks. I have ...

Lovebird biting itself raw  Hello!
I was wondering if you could possibly tell me why my grandparents lovebird is biting itself? It bites under it's wings, tail, back, and feet from ...

my bird keep eatting it legs  Do you know why my bird is keep eatting it right leg until it bleed? i have a 1 year old green quaker lately it keep trying to eat something near the right ...

Jenday Conure anxiety hyper feather picker  I own a Jenday Conure, I have had him for 9 years. Ever since he was a baby he was a constant preener. When he turned one and a half he became destructive,...

Dusky-Headed conure is going bald on the top of his head, again!  My dusky-headed conure is losing the feathers on the top of his head and a bald patch is emerging. The same thing happened last year at around the same ...

proper distance for full spectrum lighting  I have a Meyer's Parrot and a cockatiel housed in separate cages that are next to each other. The cockatiel is 10 years old and the Meyer's is 8 1/2 years ...

Ceramic heater   I am terribly heartbroken and devastated about the question I’m going to ask. First, let me give you a little back story. I had a 3 year old African Grey....

Injured Wing?  I have a Red-Bellied Parrot that is nearly one year old. Today, when he tried to fly a short distance (2-3 feet) to my shoulder (he was clipped about a ...

Little green bird with yellow chest  Hi can you tell me what species this bird is and what food should I feed him?At the moment he eats sees..and have tried feeding him fruit but he doesnt ...

My sun conure has suddenly stopped flapping her wings.  My sun conure has suddenly stopped flying. She is acting fine in all other aspects. She is eating, friendly, climbing, drinking etc. She is not sitting ...

my male parakeet is bleeding under his neck  he keeps bpicking under his neck and he wont stop and it starts to bleed and it looks really bad and he has no hair there and i dont know why he is doing ...

2 Mo. Old Cockatiel seems lethargic  I just got a male 2 month old cockatiel from a local breeder. I brought him back home and he was very playfull and curious for the first few days. Now ...

african grey  im pregnant is it safe to have an african grey in the house (we have 1 already)

blood spotting from Umbrella Cockatoo  Is this normal for a 12 year old cockatoo? Is my bird in season ? Does this happen with a male or female in season? We are not sure of the sex of the bird....

Budgie with swollen wing?  I have a budgie that's wing has become swollen and orange from the carpometacarpus all the way to the tip of her left wing.
It is not an abscess, and ...

4-wk Sunday - limp leg  We adopted a 4 week old Sunday, and he lies on his left leg alot...with it straight back underneath him ~ appears "limp." But more and more he pulls it ...

why are cockitels solid white?  If a cockitel comes out white is it a ginitic mutation?

cockatiel bird has a black dot on his tongue  my cockatiel bird has a little black dot on his tongue what does this mean and is it dangerous? please can you get back to me fast really need to no this!...

Full crop, but thin  I have 2 parakeets - one is 1-2 years old and 1 is 4 months old. I got her a couple months ago from a breeder. I was gone on vacation for about 14 days,...

new feathers  I have a Goffin Cockatoo. I got her from a rescue center 7 months ago. She had previously been at breeder who treated her terribly. The rescue center ...

What could cause my bird's neck to fill with fluid?  I have an eastern rosella and her neck keeps filling up with a greenish color fluid. I've taken her to two different vets and they've determind that it'...

Cockatiel w/sore under his right wing  I have 2 female Cockatiels and 1 male and have had them for 7 years. Zippy, the male, has recently started biting at his feathers. I thought that perhaps ...

LoveBird acting very strange  I have a three year old peach face love bird who normally is cheery hanging out on the top of her cage. however recently she's been at the bottom of her ...

Unusual Crop mark and need advice.  I have a question about a problem I noticed today with a 4 week old green wing macaw. The baby is at 433 grams which is a big baby compared to most and ...

Dried Blood under my Parokeets Wing  My question is that my parokeet has dried blood underneath his wings and on some of his primary wings. He has been going through a molting period these ...

Uv lamp  I bought the Avian sun floor lamp for my African Grey parrot as per my vet's advice. I am noticing pink on the white skin surrounding her eye. I am getting ...

OK to take birds outside?  Dr. B

I have several customers that take their birds outside, with clipped wings, against my pleading with them not to do it. Below I have listed my ...

Feathers missing  My Parakeet has missing feathers on both wings and its not alot...but i would like to know what is happening...plz let me know..My other bird jus died ...

sensitivity to cold  My mother's parrot is in a house that currently has not heat due to an ice storm that hit in northeast arkansas. She is currently in the hospital and would ...

Totally confused!!  Hello,
I just got a Conure about 5 months ago. She was a baby when I got her and she was living with a vet when he advised me that he could no longer ...

bleeding  My africane h grey has just started to blled from one of tholes n his nose.
What can this be?

vomiting african grey-help  Hi, I wondered if you can help. My african grey is not herself and seems quiet, and with drawn from her usual behaviour. She keeps being sick. We don'...

oils and egg binding  Can you use caster oil or olive oil on a budgie that you think might or might not be egg bound?

enlarged toes (feet) ,loss of feathers around eye  my parakeet has developed enlarged toes (feet) and they seem to be tender. Also loss of feathers around one eye. She seems to be itching alot and perhaps ...

My Budgie Keeps Puffing Up His Feathers  My Budgie keeps Puffing Up His Feathers And Closing His Eyes Likes Hes Sleeping But He Does It All The Time. Even When Hes Been Flying Around or Just Woke ...

my cockatiel   my cockaleil has stopped flying could this be because she has recently started laying eggs and eating her sand paper ?

Old Parakeet Left Foot Problems.  My 15+ year old parakeet has been laying on the bottom of the cage for a day now. He eats and drinks but seems to be having trouble with his left leg/foot....

Feather plucking or natural shedding???  I have a 6 month old yellow-naped amazon named Munchichi. It seems to me like his chest and bottom feathers have patches of missing feathers and it almost ...

rosa burke   what can they eat what thay cant eat, what typs of plantis toxic to them and how to look after them and what to feed them

is it normal for baby lovebird to breathe with beak open  is it normal for baby lovebird to breathe with beak open

sun conure toe  I came back from a trip and one of my conures has an issue with one of her back inside toes. She doesn't appear to have any control of it. She almost ...

quacker parrot loosing feathers  hi my name is Kristal an i have a 6 or more year old Quaker parrot . She been losing all her feather under her wings an some on her wings . She has never ...

Do blue and gold macaws need needles and vet visits?  Do blue and gold macaws need needles and vet visits?

feathers around beak turning dark  Three weeks ago I came home to find a pile of feathers in the bottom of my cockatiels cage. She continued to chew her feathers for the next several days ...

quaker parrot question  My quaker parrot all of the sudden quit talking,squaking everything. going on the second day now. he is eating and seems ok. just concerned why no noise'...

Mouth is red  Hi, My question is that under my parakeets beak her mouth is red. Is it do to maybe biting on the cage to lower herself down or biting the wood sticks ...

Parakeet not standing on left foot  Why does my parakeet keep lifting up his left foot? Nothing was different last night, but I woke up and he wouldn't stand on it. I can't see anything ...

Vent free gas fireplace  Hi I was wondering if it's okay to keep my Hahn's macaw in the same room as our vent free gas fireplace? The installer said it would be fine after the ...

lump on back of my african red parrot  my parrot fred gained a lump on his back about 3-4 months ago and we took him to our local avian vet and they took a x ray and started injecting the lump....

my fiery shouldered conure is favoring his left foot  I do not see any noticable swelling and this has just occured today, he does not want to stand on his left foot. He is standing his one foot up all the ...

Tea and Freeing my birds  Alright, this is a two part question.

I have two budgies, a green male (Sunny) and a blue female (Lucy). Lucy is a few years old, and I've had Sunny ...

My quaker got bitten  My quaker got bitten buy a rat.how do I take care of it so she can heal?

Convulsing bird  I don't know if this is an emergancy or not and this is the cloes thing to find out what is happening to her, she alright then she falls off her perach,...

bleading  head is blaeding and she breathing rilly heard and fast

Return to coment on my Cockatiels  Like I said before we have done tons and tons of research, I have visited multiple sites, read lots of books on breeding and cockatiels with laying eggs,...

Safe to clean cages when pregnant?  we have a cockatoo and im pregnant now normally he cleans the cage but today i have to... do am i ok to clean it.. i dont want to get infection from the ...

cat saliva  i was reading an artical about cockatoo and one of the questions that was posted was about having other pets in the house and that a cat's saliva can be ...

Claw Problem  I have a problem. My parakeets claws are gone!! All she has is a stub. Her beak is also a brownish grayish color. I don't know how this happened. I'm ...

Cockatiel eggs  We are not positive with the results of candling the 5 cockatiel eggs which she laid. Her first egg was laid on Dec 29th, then the 31st, Jan.2, Jan4, Jan....

My African Grey is limping  My African Grey is about 10 years old, and he's never had any health problems. Yesterday we noticed that he is limping with his right leg, and we don't ...

Peach head love bird.  Hello, my love bird has a ring around its neck, like feathers are falling out. I notice this since christamas after I moved the cage from the window to ...

my pareket   my pareket has a knot under his right wing

My CAG's eye is swollen  My CAG's eye is swollen today. we clipped his wings and claws on Saturday. His eye has a clody like appearance when he openes it slightly....

Spots on Mexican red heads eyes.  I noticed a small white spot on each of my Mexican red heads eyes, they look like small pieces of lint near the top part of his pupils. I have reason to ...

Parakeet has a blue beak.  My parakeetsbeak turned blue. She is eating fine but is very quiet. Can you tell me what is wrong.

Our quaker is shaking slightly and raising his wings up and down  Our quaker is a healthy male about 14 weeks old, he still has his baby feathers and i thought he might be hot. The temperature in the house is quite cool....

Parrot with bubble under the skin  We came home on Tuesday evening and saw blood all over in my parrots cage. We looked and could not see anywhere where he could have punctured his wing....

Swollen red bump under eye   Hello i have a female blue-fronted amazon whos about 27 years old. Shes in good health however i just recently noticed a bump on her lower eyelid. The ...

budgie  my budgie seems to have his eyes closed nearly al the time except when he moves around his cage this is not normal for him. there is no discharge or swelling,...

Quacker parrot chewing toes  I have a happy, healthy 6 year old Quacker Parrot that recently has begun chewing on his left foot - specifically one of his rear toes. I have several ...

my birds eyes closing alot  My african grey bird is closing his eyes alot and the one eye he cannot open often. He stands puffy he walks
around. I had a sunlight bird light on him ...

My parakeet sneezing and standing on one foot  My parakeet keeps on standing on one foot now, and she seems to be sneezing. I am afraid she might be sick. Is she? Should I take her to the vet?

GCC with irritated eye...  He's a 2 yr old GCC, named Cosmo. This morning when I got him up I noticed that his right eye was not opening. He was holding it shut and occasionally ...

prices  hi there i really would like to take my two indian ringnecks to the avian vet but am very short on money and am wondering what the usual price is for a ...

dog attacked my quaker parrot  Yesterday, my dog attacked my 6 year old quaker parrot, Percy. There was no blood, and nothing broken. I know I dodged a huge bullet!!!! My dog, however,...

how can you tell if a rainbow lorikett is a boy or girl  hello my name is jessica bonney i got a bird it is a rainbow lorikett and i just want to know that how can you tell if its a boy or a girl,is there a difference ...

Why did my budgie die?  My brother had a budgie that we had for about 6 months before it died. The bird showed no signs of being sick the day before. Today he was at the bottom ...

worming  hello there. The person i go to with my parrots is nicknamed the ''bird man'', he has worked with birds his whole life and has a house full of them but ...

breathing  hi there. In the past few weeks i have noticed when one of my indian ringnecks lands on my shoulder i can here a wheezing in my ear. Now since i have taken ...

Rainbow Lorikeet breathing strangely...  My Rainbow Lorikeet (about 5 months old) has started making unusual wheezing and heavy breathing sounds when he gets excited or is playing. Sometimes he ...

Mystery Diagnosis  My rescued 13yoa Blue/Gold Macaw has symptoms my (avian) vet is unable to diagnose. He's had blood work, craw culture, and x-rays - everything seems normal,...

problen with my budgie  my budgie was flying about and missed his landing and accidentally flew straight into the wall but i don't think that he flew into the wall by accident ...

Dutch Blue peach faced Lovebird has odd behavior  My bird has been chewing up a portion of his food. Particularly the smaller millet seeds and regurgitating them into horrible smelling little mountains ...

blood coming out of my umbrella cockatoo's nose  I woke up this morning to take my umbrella cockatoo out of her sleeping cage to find blood on top of her head and then upon looking further her one nostril ...

Beak Discoloration  I have a year and a half year old green cheek conure.
Today, I noticed that a small part of his beak was discoloured. His beak is slate-gray, and the ...

What do I feed my bird  I dont know if it is a baby parrot or a lovebird and the only food we have is food for parakeets and wild outdoor birds. The bird seems to enjoy only the ...

watery poops and diet  I have an 8 month old quaker parrot and for the past couple of weeks his poops are unusually watery. Can this be a symptom of an internal problem? I'm ...

parakeet  hi, i dont know whats worng with my parakeet. i also dont know if it is a emergency becuase i am unaware of whats worng with my bird. i have a parakeet ...

Should I be concerned?  I recently got a green wing macaw whom the previous owner had ten years. He seems to be adapting well, lets us handle him... etc. He has his times but ...

New quaker parrot with some particularities  Hi I just got a new quaker parrot that has a featherless spot on its head and other feathers growing over its body (white pins). I just wondered what that ...

Unhappy Parakeet?  We bought a parakeet about 3 weeks ago, and she doesn't seem happy. She doesn't chirp often (she will a little bit if I play clips of other parakeets chirping)...

Our Sun conure X Jenday Parrot might be ill!   We havent had our sun conure long he is about 18 weeks old and we have noticed he is twitching his wings like he is irratated by some thing but we have ...

Swollen area above vent in male budgie  Hello, I have a male budgie who is almost 8 yo. He just recently is showing signs of a swollen area above the vent and behind his legs. About a year ...

info on green cheek conures  i got a 7 month old green cheek conure yesturday and just want to find out if i need to provide the gravel stuff that i used to use with my parakeets. that ...

cockatiels   i bred some cockatiels and the babies have stopped growing they have been the same size now for nearly 2 weeks and should have nearly been ready to leave ...

parakeet claw fell off  Our new parakeet has one toe and claw that is brown (the others are all white/tan). today the claw in the brown toe fell out. is this likely secondary ...

Baby Peach Faced Lovebird  My baby peach faced lovebird makes this little buzzing, gurgling sound with her beak. I have had her for only one day. She moves her beak and the little ...

Painted Cage  I have purchased a used cage that has been spray painted... is it safe to use?

African grey congo- weak legs  Hi,
I'm not sure what is going on with our AGC. Her legs seem to be weak and she's keeping her feet clinched shut.
She also seems to have hick cups.
She ...

possible broken toe  my parakeet is favoring its back toe on his right foot, and it looks like it may be broken. I noticed the back toe is sideways and the foot is blueish/...

Gestation Period of a yellow peach faced lovebird  Hello, I was wondering what the gestation period is for a yellow peach faced lovebird. Also, if my lovebird has laid many eggs in her lifetime and her ...

December molting of love birds with much loss  I have two three year old love birds who have been molting and are showing much of their skin on their breasts back and neck.
I hadn't realized to give ...

Age when Quaker parrots mature?  I have two young quaker parrots. I'm wondering how old they will be when they have reached the full length of maturity? Both are less than 6 months of ...

Eyes changing color  Hi there. My baby cockatiel hatched on 5th December. When the eyes opened 10 days later they looked red. Now at day 17 the eyes look dark. Is this ...

Is this a stroke?  We purchased a 25 year old CAG a few months ago.
He was in a home with very heavy smokers & was not well nourished & had ragged, frayed feathers. Not ...

Health of conure while laying eggs  Last winter my conure laid 2 eggs. She was ok. She looks like laying eggs this year too but we can't understand what's wrong with her. When she wants to ...

my parrot have flu  please guide me what to do with my sick mealy amazon
he is still young and have a bad flu but he is still eating well and playing ( good activity)

Parakeets rub face till they bleed  Hello! I have 2 parakeets that are doing some strange stuff. They have recently had drainage from their nare. It was a brownish color. On the one bird,...

Foot problem  We have a 7 year budgie, who is free-flying for part of the day and until now has been very healthy. Recently we took him to get his claws trimmed - one ...

Cockatiel  I've had a cockatiel named Oscer for about two months now, well we decided to get her a new cage, it was much taller then the other, and then today we ...

tail feather loss  Our maroon bellied conure lost all but one of his tail feathers within a few minutes. He was not in an unusual or stressful situation when they came out....

Eye problem Orange Winged Parrot  I have an amazon orange winged parrot and he is holding his left eye shut this morning - there are no other symptoms yet he is eating drinking ok etc - no ...

parakeet put its foot in its mouth  hi my parakeet put his foot in his mot=uth and sems to vomit or spit up seeds all the time--is he ill or what could be wrong with him?

Rainbow Lorikeet vomiting/ regurgitating  hey my Rainbow Lorikeet 'Babycakes' has been vomiting and regurgitating a milky clear slimy liquid today... he seems less playful but still very affectionate ...

Trembling  Is it normal for a bird to tremble when it isn't cold.

My red lored amazon is perched with one leg up not resting his body on the perch. Seems healthy ...

growth-like bump on throat  My Green Cheek Conure has a bump on its throat right below its beak. The skin is red and seems swollen. When touching the bump/growth, it feels like ...

death of a budgie  My budgie was 12 years old and was always full of life and happy. I went on holiday for five days and my daughter looked after him, the day after I came ...

Bald patch on budgie  I have recently noticed a bald patch above my 1 year old budgies right wing. He is acting, eating and drinking the same as before so it doesn't seem to ...

Pulling out feathers  Hi my african grey is around 1 1/2 years old. recently he started pulling out the feathers on his leg. is there anything i can do and what could be the ...

White bump on my cockatiel's head  My cockatiel just passed away last night. She started out about two months ago with her right eye closed in the mornings. Eventually she went onto antibiotics ...

Breeding Macaws  Hello,

We have two Green Wing Macaws that are very loving companions to me and my wife. My question is if we try to breed them in a couple years when ...

missing feathers under wings  My double yellow headed amazon is missing feathers beneath one of his wings. He seems to be fine, is eating, talking, normal behavior. Can you tell me ...

head twitching  my orange winged amazon,(fibi), has got head twitching when she is not active, she is eating well fruit am and seed pm,(rob harvey) amazon mix. can you ...

Cockatiel  My Cockatiel sits at the bottom of her cage.
What's wrong? Thanks Donna

Coocktal handfeeding  I have handfed (Cerelac through syringe)) the baby coocktals as the pair is not feeding properly to them and had left the babies too early. Now the problem ...

Door shut on parrot's foot  as my parrot loves me when i washed my hand i put him on the bathroom door then my little sister closed the door and gave a little cut on my parrots leg ...

bleeding under wing  African Grey, about a year old. Bleeding under wing. It seems it scratched itself. The bleeding is not heavy or flowing. Should I be concerned or is there ...

Lovebird Throws Up Food After Eating  Hi,

I have a lovebird thats about 6 years old who throws up his food after eating.
he will do this on the perches of his cage and even his own feet ...

My cokatiel has a lump by its beak  My 6 year old cokatiel has a pinkish lump about the size of a grain of rice on the left side of her beak. I just recently noticed this and she's never ...

cockatiel with swollen belly  Hi
our female cockatiel has a very swollen belly - took her to a general vet 7 days ago. He seemed to think it was some sort of internal infection and ...

bump on umbrella cockatoos tongue..  My umbrella cockatoo has a large bump on its tongue as if its growing another tongue on its tongue. I just wanted to know if its normal and will go away ...

Lovebird Baby Behaviour  Hi,
I have a baby lovebird (approx 22 days..?, only has down). I cannot put it back with its mother, so I am hand feeding it. I have handfed before, but ...

a sick parakeet  Hi, how are you?

I've noticed lately (last week or two) that one of my parakeets doesnt seem to be too well. I thought she was getting ready to lay ...

green checked conure with growth in nostril  someone has just given me a darling, 5 year old, female green checked conure. She has an enlarged left nostril with what looks like a growth in it. The ...

my cockatiel is limping,  i just clipped one of my male cockatiel's toenails and now he isn't using that foot. He is limping while trying to move around the cage. Is the foot broken?...

leadbeater diet  I have a pair of leadbeaters bonded birds.previous owner said they ate oatmeal-raisins-course harris food- nutriberries. the only thing they will eat is ...

my bird is acting like its sick  my bird has its plummage fluffed, it has green dropings,it is constantly iching, it has a cut under its wing, and its only a few month old female parakeet ...

poop  what will a quaker parotts poop look like when it meets a new owner?

worried about bubba  my parakeet is sqeaking everyday & sometimes @ nite? is that normal or is she sick?

brown claw   hi i got a african grey he is 4 months old and 1 claw is brown and the other is grey is this a problem

Eclectus dent in beak  I'm wondering if you could help me. I'm looking at purchasing a baby female Eclectus but there seems to be a slight dent half way along her beak. It runs ...

Minor bleeding in the right wing  Dear Vet,

Hello. Recently, my budgie has a minor bleeding problem. He is a male. And if it helps he is also a greywing. When he flies too much, he starts ...

Eclectus throwing up seed  I feed my Eclectus seed and he seems to throw it up, he has full range in my home and I find it on my tile all the time. is this normal?

my parakeet is limping all of the sudden  Yesterday my parkeet was limping, it was only using its left foot to walk, and his right foot looks swollen. she or he is in a cage in my home, I've never ...

indian parakeet tending to sleep a lot  Hi, My name is Jan and I live in Mauritius. My Indian Parakeet, Bonny is just over 4 years old. He is usually very chatty and active but recently he seems ...

Hi  I had a Quaker Parrot.He was cute and cuddly.I loved hi- I'll just skip straight to the part.Ok well he died and was only 8 weeks old.But I don't know ...

Cockatiel with lump on its eye  My Cockatiel has a lump on its eye, it came up about two weeks ago but has grown over time.
I dont know what it is or what to do, can you please tell ...

our bird has air pocket on the top of his head  my pet cockatiel has a strange pocket of air on the top of his head its not hard and i can gently push is back and forth and he does not notice and he ...

lovebird keeps yawning is it sick   hi i have a 14 year old love bird that seems to be yawning more then it was could it be sick ?. it sems to be eating ok and drinking and even flys ok what ...

gestation period  wha's the gestation perio for an eclectus parrot?

sneezing & trouble breathing  My blue and gold macaw was sneezing and sounded congested before he passed away. He was fine at 9am this morning but by noon he was gone. Was there anything ...

My african grey parrot is acting strange.   Today, me and my father went to take my parrot out of the cage. She was quiet today in her cage and she did not make any noise. Also, she started to ...

Chewing nails off  I have an 8 year old parrot and he recently got injured do not know how because he was home alone. It was just a cut above his middle finger so we cleaned ...

Dead bird!  My question is........

I had a Quaker Parrot.He was cute and cuddly.I loved hi- I'll just skip straight to the part.Ok well he died and was only 8 weeks ...

caique feathers  we have a 1 1/2 year old white bellied caique. after he took a bath in his water bowl we noticed that his belly feathers were not drying at a closer ...

conure has broken beak  what can we do for it?? can it be clipped ??

Budgie with sore foot  Our young budgie has hurt it's foot somehow. Was fine yesterday. This morning found it on the aviary floor.Picked it up and seems like it has a sore foot....

A sore on my parakeets foot  What can I do for a sore on my Parakeets foot?
I just brought two bird home and I am in the prosses of training them so we are just building trust. How ...

wound under wing  My 3 year old lovebird seems to have a cut/wound under its wing near where the wing meets the body...it has dried blood and t seems like a bit of an open ...

Psycho Eclectus  I am at my wits end with my wife's Eclectus.
I am afraid the bird will do some serious harm. She was initially very loving and friendly. She started ...

Non-Toxic Paint  hello we are getting a new baby maroon bellied conure in a month. we have already purchased the cage. it is supposed to be a good cage and is brand new....

pulling out feathers  My mom's sun conure for no reason a couple of days ago got very upset started squawking and either pulled out all of her flight feathers or they fell out ...

Keel bone injury  My bird (5weeks)injured its keel bone by crash landing because I clipped its wings . The bird seems to be in pain because it moans when it moves its head ...

neck injury   I took my baby cockatiel (5weeks old ) out of the cage . He flew around the room and crash landed on the floor ,i thught that he was paralysed because ...

baby cockatiel bubble  Our baby cockatiel has weird air sockets on its back above its neck, what is it?

limp leg and hurt wing  My bird got stepped on he is a three year old parakeet and now his right leg is limp he cannot grip with it and his right wing is messed up. He can close ...

Conure's eye pink & a little swollen  Hello,

I have a two year old green cheek conure. Yesterday I noticed that one of his eyes is a pinkish color and a little swollen in the corners. His ...

sick with a lame foot  Our 3-4 yr. old female parakeet has been sick lately hanging around the bottom of the cage all puffed up.
We took to a local avian vet who claimed she ...

my blue parakeet  why does my parakeet always stand one one foot, but when i get him out he will stand on both but if i let him sit on the table or on top of his cage he ...

parakeet is picky stuff out from under his tail  My parakeet is picking black chips out from underneath his tail. We don't know why, or what it is. The black stuff is above his butt, but below his tail....

help! Neck looks broken  my cockatiel bird is few years old and the neck it looks like its broken and the stomach is big and blue with red....plese tell me if its going to die ...

bloody nose  My sun conure is 9 and has just laid 2 eggs for the first time and I understand that to be normal and that she should abandon them on her own (hopefully ...

swollen eye  eye closed and swollen blue and gold macaw
treating since feb with eye drops and several kinds of meds 3 breathing treatments/day 2 eye drops/day 2x/...

trimming budgie black nails  My budgie parakeet is still a baby, hasn't had first molt yet, and has black toenails, how do i cut them without being able to see the blood line on them?...

cockatiels droppings!  A few days ago my cockatiels droppings were a very dark green color, basically a black color.
But now they have gone back to normal ( white and light ...

Sick Cockatiel  Hello my cockatiel is female and we've notice that she has developed pink lumps on her wings about the size of a single peanut. What can this be?

Loosing head feathers  Our 8 mo. old finch that we got just as a baby seems very healthy and active but continues to keep going bald. All feathers look great except the balding ...

Dusky Conure Problem  hi there, please can you try and help us? our dusky conure murray has been bitting his leg continually until it bleeds. He has a small bump on his wing ...

few questions, eye infection, and vomiting  hello there, i have just a few questions to ask. After reading all the other questions I have began to worry. the reason i came on here was to research ...

Blue gold macaw wings????  I took my B&G to the vet to have his wings clipped. The man cut them straight across. He no longer has his beautiful wing span. He now has nubbies. Will ...

Green cheeked conure pulling out flight feathers  My green cheeked conure has over the past couple of weeks pulled out every blue flight feather he had. Started on one wing first. Is constantly picking ...

Traveling with parakeets  What is the best way to travel with a parakeet in a car? I need to take my keet Lue-Lue on a six hour trip. Please tell me the best way. Thanks,...

Cockatiel - picking on her foot, why?  25 year old Cockatiel - recently started picking at her right foot, compulsively. Foot appears slightly reddened, and raw in one area (in the joint of ...

sick parakeet  Our bird started hanging out on the bottom of the cage.He looks like he can't keep his balance. When he starts to fall over he starts to flaps his wings,...

my already dead bird  ok.well,about a few weeks ago,i got a quaker parrot.it was a baby,7 weeks old.It was doing well I kept my jack russell away(i tried my best)and afer swim ...

Weak grip on my conure and behavior change  About 3 months ago my conure have injured it's foot with a long nail. I brought it to the vet and he said it most likely pulled a muscle and prescribe ...

red bumps on eye of blue and gold macaw  We have a one year old blue and gold macaw. She has 2 little red bumps on her left eyelid. After looking at some of your previous questions, I am wondering ...

Budgie Behavior  I was recently given two budgies. They seem rather uneasy (scooting away from me as I approach the cage, not very active/playful, etc.), but I suspect ...

nerve damage  My Grey Cheek Parakeet (Quaker) was treated for zinc poisioning, he went through 4 series of shots (2 a day for 10 days). He now does not act right he ...

blood on my parakeet's neck and back of head.  hello,

i just got my parakeet out, and i noticed two small spots on the back of his head and neck. i looked in his cage and at the bottom there are ...

Face Cyst - Greenwing Macaw  I have a 1 year old greenwing who has a tiny bump on one side of her face behind her eye and the bump I am concerned about is right above her eye and is ...

quaker bird suddenly quiet  he is always very loud and all of the sudden this evening he is barely chirping he seems find but very calm and tired ? i dont know if thats normal i cannot ...

Full Spectrum lights  I was wondering how you felt about full spectrum lights for conures? I live in PA and have been reading about lighting and have heard stories of the lights ...

Eyelid redness  My umbrella cockatoo has been a feather plucker since we got her as a rescue bird over 10 years ago. The avian vet we took her to said she would never ...

Zinc Toxicity - Macaw diagnosed  I am purchasing an 11 year old macaw (male) who recently was discovered having zinc toxicity, while being treated for a secondary infection. He just completed ...

Feather plucking-of down feathers  Watson is my 2-1/2 year old female white eyed conure. She has just recently started plucking out all the down feathers on her back. She screams when ...

Vomiting and Diarrhea.  Hello,

I will get right to the point, my parrot Paulie(Male,Alexandrine parakeet)is vomiting and discharging loose motions since yesterday today his ...

Sick  ny bird is getting somehwat weak and started spitting up. She's shakcing and keeps nodding of and that is so unlke her. What could she have?

missing feathers around front of neck & under wings parakeet  bird looks and acts fine but there are feathers missing from around front of his neck and under both wings plays and wolf whistles eats and drinks could ...

African Grey Neck  Hello,
I have an African Grey parrot. He has an opening just underneath his beak on his neck. It looks like an opening in his skin that connects his beak ...

baby love bird will not use its leg??  Hi! We just had about 5 weeks ago, a baby love bird hatch. The mommy was taken good care of it. We could hear it peeping inside the breeding box and ...

New Furnace Fumes and Parrots  I have a Senegal parrot, a parakeet, and a Red-Lored Amazon. I'm planning on getting a new gas forced-air furnace for my home soon and wondered if the ...

Cockatile  My cockatile had surgery twice once to remove eggs with unformed shells and removal of her uterus.we were informed she will not form any more eggs.now ...

feather chewing  My quaker parrot started chewing her feathers in january 2008. I took her to a vet who thought that she was chewing out of frustration for wanting to breed....

My Blue Masked Lovebird died suddenly  I had an adult Blue Masked Lovebird. He had been with me (along with my African Grey Parrot and Citron Cockatoo) for about 7 -8 years. I don't know how ...

Conure acting weird...already been to the vet once.  Hello! My name is Deepa, and I have a green cheeked conure named Raja. I got him a couple months ago and I believe he is 6 years old. He started sneezing ...

bleeding under the wing..must have bitten a blood feather  recently my budgie has been moulting and today i noticed that she had a red patch inder her wing and about an hour later it started to bleed very heavily ...

Wound on Wing?  I got an abused Keet from my sister today. She is very aggressive and frightened and seems to hate EVERYONE.

Today I noticed that under her wing she ...

my cockatiels wing is hurt  hi, my cockatiel called benny is hurt, she got a lump on her wing and it bigger now, my sister is a vet and she said that if we take her into the vet they ...

peach face  my peach face is almost 10 years old he has lost interest in playing and sleeps all day. Could he be sick or is it old age

Traveling by air  I need to transport my sun conure from Virginia to Florida. Is it okay for them to travel by air - in the main cabin?
Thank you.

closing of 1 eye on my african grey  my parrot has recently had a sist removed from his neck and a wart lasered off his tongue. Before and after his surgery he has been closing one eye. He ...

sun conures beak  Can a sun conure scratch its beak taking some of the black off?

Fischer's Lovebird drinking excessive amounts of water  Hello,
I have a 2 year old fischer's dilute lovebird. He has some weird behaviors, such as regurgitating for his toys, and rubbing himself against his ...

Nonstick interior on convection oven  I would also like to know if a convection oven with nonstick interior is dangerous as well to African Grey parrots.
Thanks

non-stick cookware  There are many types of non-stick cookware available out there. Does the danger exist cooking with ALL non-stick cookware/bakeware for birds. or is it ...

my three week old baby green cheek conure  i have just noticed that my baby green cheek conures neck is starting to swell. i am hand feeding it and it is eating fine. i am kinda worried about ...

parakeet molting for more than 2 weeks  Is it normal for a parakeet to molt for more than 2 weeks? She has beem loosing a lot of fethers from all over her body, near the top of her head it is ...

cockatiel with lump in throat  My cockatiel has developed a lump in its throat in the past few days, it seems to be getting bigger and when it has a drink it seems to start choking a ...

My Blue & Gold Macaw is coughing & sometimes congested  we have alot of dust around due to a remodel, could this be the cause? we took her 3 times to the vet. he prescribed antibiontics all times, one time for ...

Puffed up  My female budgie parakeet, started acting diferent today. She has been puffed up for about 4 hours now. I know puffed up means sick, but could it be that ...

Something wrong with my sun conure  My mom has a sun conure which is about 20 yrs. old, she just started today falling off her perches. She's been sleeping too much today and can't stand ...

Lovebird loosing feathers  My Lovebird has recently lost some feathers around the neck and a little under the feathers. I have always given her a variety diet, seeds, fresh fruit,...

My parakeets back toe is bent up  He has to shake it at times so he can get it straight to put it on the perch. Sometime he will not stand on it but most of the time he does. But even when ...

New Quaker , he is tame but acts like he is a meanie  My new quaker is 5-6 months old, he is molting. but my question is, I haven't heard him say or even make a noise. now everyone says these birds talk alot ...

parrot health  what type of medecine should be given to bird when ill
1. upset tummy 2. fever 3. is it safe to use deworming medecine to bird or is it is necessary ...

Bird's butt bare, no feathers...  My bird hit his bottom on cement. I think he keeps pulling the feathers out because it is bare at the very back of his bottom. Anytime he bumps it now,...

what to feed a baby rainbow lorikeet  hi i would like to know the best food to feed my baby lorikeet and at what age is it best to take it away from the mum to hand raise it. thankyou

preventing infection  Hi my precious cockatiel Chirpy had a horrible accident last night. Our sun conures attacked her and took out her eye! She also lost a chunk of her scalp....

fleas in my parrot  I need help getting rid of fleas in my parrot and what can I use that is safe.
THANKYOU

Bump Towards Tailfeather on Green Cheek Conure  Hi,

I recently got my first Green Cheek Conure after having cockatiels for most of my life. I have a quick question, on the back of my conure, he has ...

non-stick cookware  Hello,
I have some non-stick cookware. My African Grey is located in another room adjacent to my kitchen. Is is still dangerous to use this cookware? Someone ...

Making Our Own Playstand  I am in the process of making a playstand for a blue and gold macaw. We obtained some crab apple branches from an old homestead. I am wondering if we ...

Can a bird have a fever ?  I'm a new bird owner , I just bought a Green Cheek Conure about two weeks ago , she is about 3 months old... she is a pleasure to have , she eats well ...

Parakeet with large hump/lump on neck  Yesterday it wasn't there but we noticed she was sleeping with her head down rather than back like usual. This morning, she has a large hump under her ...

Sick Lorikeet  My lorikeet is sick. She was shaking her head and brown fluid was coming out. Her eyes are pale. She is drinking more water than usual and not eating ...

Lost weight during molting  I have a cockatiel and she has went from 94 grams to 78 grams since she started molting and I was wondering if she is sick or if it is part of the stressful ...

Bare neck on Scarlet Macaw  I have a ten month old scarlet macaw. Underneath his feathers he has a bald ring around his neck (just above the shoulders) where no feathers ever seem ...

My parrot has a bump on his back  My blue front amazon has a bump on his back..The bump is not hard but feels like an air pocket? He/she is about 30 yrs..I have had Baby for about 26 years....

Abnormal Feather Growth   Hi my name is Erica and I just have a question about my conure. He's 11 months old and he has been growing his feathers, the only problem is that one side ...

alexandrine parakeet   how will i know that my bird is having a upset tummy

male parakeet pulling feathers from female parakeet  I have a male and female parakeet sharing the same cage.The male has begun biting and pulling feathers from the female and even pulling her tail feathers ...

sick baby bird  Have a baby quaker about 7weeks old on antibiotics for almost three weeks now cold seems to be coming back and now right foot toes seem slightly swollen ...

Cockatiel laying unfertilized eggs  Hello

What is the best diet to give to my cockatiels? They both have been laying unfertilized eggs. Is the liquid vitamins good to put in food?

Right ...

Egg Laying  How do I stop my jenday conure from laying so many eggs? She's laid about 20 so far this year. She is my only pet and is not a breeder. This seems to ...

nail off  my parrot hung one of his nails and it came off . it is healing but he quit talking

Quaker Parrot  My quaker has starter picker at his leg and it has started to get darker. When I have him outside his cage he doesn't seem to do this. He is approximately ...

lost feathers  all of a sudden my cockateil has lost his main flight feathers on his left wing

Scarlet Macaw red face  Hi, Im slightly worried about our Scarlet Macaw as I know that parrots can hide illnesses easily. More recently I have noticed her face which is known ...

lifted wings  My apparently healthy male budgie keeps sitting with his wings lifted away from his body. He flies well, eats well, and does not seem to be uncomfortable ...

Nanday Conure broken toe  Hello,

I purchased a Nanday Conure today and the pet store informed me his toe had been broken previously. I didn't really think to ask when this happened ...

fluffed feathers  What does it mean when an amazon stands alot with its feathers fluffed out? My amazon has been doing that a little more than usual.
Judy...

feathers around missing   good day!
i have a pair of kakirikis green and cinamon they get plenty of fresh fruit and veg but their feathers around the head is in bad condition and ...

Lorikeet Flight Feathers  Hi,

I saved a lorikeet from some cats that were fighting over him. I put him in a cage and covered him overnight to get over the stress. since then ...

Seizures   Hi,

I have a Male white faced split pearl cockatiel. He is about 2 years old.

In April of this year he started having seizures. We started taking ...

Using steriods on parrots  What is your opinion on using anabolic steriods on very sick underweight birds?

I had a amazon who had a mild stroke (no side effects), weighed 260grams,...

injured claw on a quaker parrot  not sure how it happened but my quaker parrot somehow injured his claw. i uncovered his cage yesterday and noticed his right claw was limp. the only thing ...

Red Spot on Conure's Beak  My niece, who lives in Elkton, MD, purchased a 3 yr old conure that was a breeding bird from a breeder. Since then she has noticed a red spot/blotch on ...

does oxymav b work?  hi, i have found that my budgie is continuously snezing, also the other day he looked like he was yawning but he kept doing so repeatedly aswell. A friend ...

Sun Conure   My husband and I have had our Sun Conure for 4 years We took him for his "manicure" today to a pet store. and brought him in his travel cage which has ...

Bird rolling backwards  My bird will all of a sudden start flipping/rolling backwards (like a backwards summersault) over and over again, usually across the floor about 8 or 10 ...

Parakeet Death   After receiving Claramox for what might have been an infection our bird began turning his head from side to side at an extreme angle. He did this for ...

Is my parakeet brain damaged?  We brought home a parakeet last December, and her behavior seemed to be pretty normal. She skittered around the cage, trying to get out, squawking and ...

parot possible illness  i have 2 budgies. The female lately shows me some signs of bad health. it's right wing is swollen and it can not fly well. The flesh on this wing is orange ...

my bird's wing hurts  what should i do? i suddenly noticed that my pet bird had a feather coming out awkwardly from his wing. it seems to be very sensitive by my touch and ...

sticky poo  Hi
I have a budgie who has liver disease he's 6 yrs old and has always had a gut problem..poos are never the same. Sometimes runny, rarely normal, sometimes ...

Grieving Parrots  Recently my father passed away,and I'm taking care of his orange-wing Amazon.He got the parrot at about a month old and hand fed him,and has had him 12 ...

male eastern rosella   We rescued a male eastern rosella and was tols that he had a liver disease and that he should not be breed. We are feeding him fruity Zupreem pellets and ...

Cockatiel rubbing beak on wood perch possible blood in his nostrils  My Cockatiel is rubbing his beak on his wooden perch and his nostrils are very red. Almost looks like blood in the nostrils.I take him in regular for wings ...

My African Grey Parrot is ll :(   i have an african grey parrot, who has never fallen ill and now 2 weeks back started getting loose motions , after we visited a vet this stopped post him ...

vomiting of my african grey  My african grey likes to what we call dance with my husband. Today my husband picked him or her up and Sam did the normal panting which I know is something ...

Scratching too much!  Hi! This is Mike & I own a blue-naped parrot. She's 4 months old and she's really beatiful. Lately, she's scratching the area between her eye and beak....

Peach faced lovebirds -Pull out feathers  We have two peach faced love birds and we are unsure to if they are male of female. Last month they laided and egg and then they smashed it. They practice ...

Parakeet puffed up with eyes closed  My Parakeet was closed in a door and now he is puffed up with his eyes closed what should I do?

Vet check for a purchase of a new bird  My wife is very interested in acquiring a young White Headed Pionus from a pet store. We understand the value of having a full check up by a vet prior ...

Over Preening????  I have a Green-Wing Macaw that is about 2 years old. A couple of moths ago I noticed alot of down feathers at the bottom of the cage. At first I thought ...

New Cockatiel  I just recently purchased a cockatiel from a pet store. A few days after the purchase, I noticed that my bird would sound very congested, and at night,...

Sick Rainbow Lorikeet   I am at a loss as to what to do for my baby. I took him to the vet 2 months ago and he was diagnosed with a condition, putting it shortly though a puncherd ...

green cheecked conure   my conure pooped in my sink today and it looked different than usual. it actually looked like a light color of blood running from it. i was wondering what ...

My budgies ceres keeps changing colour!  I brought my budgies two years ago. Their ceres are changing colour quite often (blue to a dark pink and back to blue again)Something they are blue and ...

Parakeet excessively drinking  I'm worried. My parakeet has, in the last couple months, taken to biting her water bottle excessively and shaking the excess water from her face. I come ...

rust  will rust on a formerly brass cage hurt my scarlett macaw?

4 month old quaker parrot  why does my 4 month old quaker parrot so much and has been making quiet peeping noises for two days

Cere on Greenwing  I have a question about the ceres on my Greenwing Macaw. The inside part that I can see on one side is smooth and clear, the other is not smooth and has ...

Lovebird paralyzed for a few minutes  Hi, We got 2 baby lovebirds yesterday and took them out of the cage to start taming them. On the 3rd time taking them out they were quite use to us and ...

sore on parrotlets toe  Yesterday I was gone for about 2 hours and when I returned I took my parrotlet out of his cage and noticed that on his left foot he has a red mark. It ...

Bird Lighting Question  Hello,

I'm going to buy an avian light for my 2 parrots. One cage is 23X59,
the other is 32X61. Can I use one Avian Sun floor lamp, and place it ...

swollen nose  Hi
We have had our African Grey (Rocky) for over twenty years now and about 7 years ago we took him to the vet because around every six months he would ...

Vaccines  I just read one of your comments about seeing a vet once a year for checkups and vaccines. What vaccines should and african grey have. My vet has never ...

parakeet limping  I have a parakeet 8 years old. he is limping on one leg and not grasping. his claw stays closed. i tried some mineral oil and then dabbed with peroxide....

Parakeet with black tip on beak  My parakeet has developed a black tip on his beak over the last week or so. It is crusty in nature. It has not stopped him from eating, chirping, or ...

Eye problem?  When i take off my quaker parrots cage cover in the morning, find him taking a waking up from a nap during the day, or enter the room I find he often has ...

Buggie sick  I actually have to get rid of buggie my english budgie. His sister had a bird disease. Now we think our small dog Goofy might of caught it and our mom ...

wing and nail clipping  Hello Avian Vet,
I have heard that it is best not to clip your bird's wings or cut its nails yourself because the bird will associate you with not nice ...

My sun conure is lethargic after a fall  My Sun Conure recently fell off of her play rope and hit the floor. in doing so she developed a blood feather. We tended to the matter. in fact Ricky Bird ...

feather plucking  my 4 year old female spectacled amazon{white fronted}is very frustrated and angry and seems to be acting like an unspayed cat. i have other birds,six of ...

Birds Toe Possibly Twisted?  Hello, today my bird flew out of it's cage and landed on top of my rat cage. Before I could remove my bird, my rat was able to get a hold of his foot, and ...

Seizures  Hi
One of my love birds Charlotte seems to have some sort of seizure once a month or so. She flops over, loses her balance and falls on the bottom of ...

Cockatoo with reddish crop  Hi...my cockatoo escaped today out of her cage and chewed up the arm of my sofa...mostly the stuffing. I put her back in her cage and she drank and ate....

Lovebird has red irritated area under wing  Yesterday i noticed at times my lovebird was a little sensitive when i picked him which is not normal for him. Today when he was flying to his cage i ...

dehydrated foods  I have a budgie parakeet, I've had him for 2+ months, he's been pretty easy to train so far but he refuses to eat or even go near any fruits,veggies,rice ...

Amazon parrot molting alot after laying eggs  My 10 year old YellowNaped Parrot, DeauxDeaux, layed her 1st eggs(3 of them) in June. They were unfertilized, but the vet said to let her sit on them until ...

My budgie is continuously yawning  Hi my budgie was continuously yawing yesterday, i was so scared I didnt know what to do, he just kept yawing one after another! I just wanted to know whether ...

Is vet wrap perches parrot safe?  I have seen some perch products that have been wound with vet wrap. Is this parrot safe? Does this pose a ingestion hazard? Thank you.

Connie Vasquez...

Small cyst-like growths on and around eye  I rehabilitate injured songbirds for release. A young thrasher has 3 small cyst-like growths on the cornea of one eye. They move with the eyeball as he ...

bumps on his back by tail feather  Hi I own a 6 month old scarlet macaw and we noticed he has small bumps on his body down by the tail feather we noticed a feather coming out of it it looks ...

Preening  We have two cockatiels = male and female. They had 3 babies who are now 10 weeks old and doing very well. Curley our male, however, loves to preen which ...

Male eclectus feather plucking  Hi,
my eclectus parrot has started plucking his chest and neck area just a little, and since eclectus have different needs than other parrots, I was ...

alexandrine parrot molting time how long   I Have a male Alexanrine Parrot who is approx 18 months. He has molted once since i have had him approx six months ago and his feathers come back okay ...

Vomiting Nanday Conure  I recently adopted a Nanday conure who has had a difficult past. He was abused by his first owners and plucked out all of his feathers except his wings ...

Molting bare skin around neck and back of head  I believe one of my cockatiels is molting but has bare skin around the neck and back of head. I have a friend that says hers used to look worse then that,...

red bump on wing!!  what do we do for our cockteil bird?

Diet for a lory with high blood sugar  My Rainbow Lorikeet just had blood work that showed him as having very high blood sugar.

I'm looking for an alternative nectar with less sugar. He's ...

Injured lovebird leg  I noticed my lovebird has some dried blood on his leg. I am not sure what could have happened to cause the injury but I see him constantly picking at ...

My Sun Conure Died  My sun Conure recently passed away this morning. We bought him from petco 8 months ago and when he bought him he had a "cold" and had to to take him back....

behavior change in Jenday Conure  What might cause my 10 year old conure to suddenly want to spend a lot of time under the paper at the bottom of his cage where he peeps this sweet little ...

Changing cockateils food  I was wondering how often do you have to change cockatiels limestone blocks, cuttlefish bones, millet sprays, and honey sticks?

Sleeping on bottom of cage  My new cockatiel has started sleeping on the bottom of cage, we have had him 1 week and he was owned for 5 years but the previouse owners had less time ...

blue and gold macaw  my macaw has a swollen pink eyelid on top of his left eye. it doesn't look serious. it's not oozing or bleeding, and he can open his eye all the way. i ...

vomiting Macaw  Hi, I have a neighbor that recently got a Macaw from a friend. This bird gobbles down his food in a hurry and then vomits it on the bottom of the cage....

Lovebird looks a bit sick?  Hi
My Peachface lovebird looks a bit drousy. Latly He has been mating with our other lovebird but now all he does is sit at the bottom of the cage all ...

black spot  my parakeet has a black spot on his beak

when do green cheek conures become prenant  my green cheek is almost 3 so i was wondering if it is a girl wen will eggs lay??

Using Stevia Sweetner for Sun Conures  Hello, If I am preparing food for my 2 sun conures would it be safe for me to use the stevia sweetner?It comes in several different bases, and 2 different ...

tailfeather scratching  Hello,

My lovebird, a peach-faced male, keeps on incessantly scratching his end tailfeathers repeatedly. To check what it was we took the bird out of ...

help plz  my lovebird has a swollen eye but is still eating and drinking wat should i do

white feathers  I have an alexandrine parrot. He has white feathers all over his body except for the head. He also gets back the green feathers somewhere in july-august ...

Budgie with lame foot  I have an older (i.e. 8-9 yr old) budgie who has suddenly stopped standing on her one foot. I can see no visible signs of injury. She has a history of ...

sneezing parakeet  my parakeet is sneezing and it is puffed up and it also has been hittig the walls of the cage at times no runny nose or anything like that. and the other ...

Excessive fleather plucking  Is there anything that you can do for your bird at home, if he has excessive abnormal feather plucking, before going to the vet??
This bird is a 1 and ...

i dont have a choice no vets open now please help me  I have a sun conure , she is about 5 weeks old and I have been hand feeding her or him. She has been doing great than yesterday I noticed that her crow ...

male and female cockateils  my female cockatiel quibbles her voice and bends over as if in mating position, my male puts his beak into her backside as if cleaning her, are they attempting ...

Egg laying  Why would my 17 year old Sun Conure start laying eggs? She has done it about 3 times in the last year and a half - 3 eggs at a few days intervals each ...

eye infection  Left bottom eye lid is swollen. Iris is reddish, pink in color. No noted drainage. The eye looks as though it is bulging out of the socket. No injury known....

bleeding  actually its somewhat of an emergency! i have no money and my bird is bleeding from her beak and nose, which acts up after she starts sneezing. i need ...

Sneezing- Blue and Gold Macaw  I've had my Blue and Gold Macaw for about 2 years now. And today he started sneezing. He has been sneezing for quite a bit now. What should I do?

African Grey parrot makes coughing noises  I have an African Grey bird, He makes coughing noises it sounds like a growling dog.?
it has a red tail and i think its known as a "congo" and he's 7 ...

My bird has a runny nose, should I wait for it to pass?  I've looked up other symptoms of being sick and she only has a runny nose (plus a few pulled feathers around her eye). I think otherwise she'll by fine....

Unhappy parakeet?  My 6 year old, healthy looking parakeet began, weakly, and incessantly, chirping this morning---and only stops briefly when entertained. It is a very ...

Egg laying Sun Conure  Hi, I just recently became caretaker of a beautiful sun conure named Sunny. We got him 3 weeks ago and then Friday 07/18/2008 "he" layed an egg (it fell ...

dandruff /african gray congo  my african gray likes to clean himself very throughly daily. he has alot of dandruff. is there something i should give him to help this. i know they have ...

Greenwing baby with toe abnormality  We are getting a green wing, he is 3 weeks old right now. The breeder called me today and said on his right foot he has 3 forward toes and 1 rear toe ...

Parkeet info  My female parkeet sarted laying eggs in begging of this month and laid six eggs. She has been sitting on them almost 24 hours in a day. It has been 18 ...

Cockateil family all missing feathers around the neck  We have a family of 4 cockateils living in the same cage (male female & 2 babies) they are all missing feathers around their necks. Is this normal or ...

my birds sneezing  hi, my birds sneezing alot and scratching his nose i just wanted to know whether he is ok? i only just got him 5 hours ago from the pet shop.

Yellow Headed Amazon Parrot / Leg Problem  We have a Yellow Headed Amazon Parrot, 30-35 yrs. old. Recently he seems to have a stiff leg. Doesn't want to bend it. Hold his,right, leg up in the air,...

vomiting parakeet  my female parakeet, Mollie, has been vomiting, runny dark droppings and very sleepy, ruffeled feathers, but she still eats, drinking very little. what ...

8 month old B&G macaw weight?  How many mg should an 8 month old Blue & Gold macaw weigh? (min to max)

Also please the weight of a 1 yr old Mexican Redhead Amazon?

plucking  My 25+ African Grey after laying 3 more eggs (laid 1st 3 around Easter) has suddenly started plucking - chest virtually bare. She now has my full attention ...

alexandrine parrot shabby feathers  hello, i was wanting some help re my alexandrine parrot. i have two 6 mnth old parrots and one has recently developed shabby looking feathers as though ...

FEMALE COCKATIEL IS PREENING MALE BARRABAND   I HAVE 7 COCKATIELS IN MY AVAIRY, I ALSO HAVE A MALE BARRABAND IN THERE TO, IVE HAD THEM ALL FOR A MANY YEARS, THEY ALL GET ON GREAT TOGETHER,THEY ALL ...

Playpen Wooden Branches Treatment.   Hello, I am writting to ask how one would go about treating (bird safe wooden tree branches from your list of course) to make playstands out of them for ...

if i have a boy or girl  dear vet
my name is hope and i have a rainbow lorikeet and i was just wanted to know if there is any way to tell if i have a boy or a girl lorikeet as ...

Itching/Scratching  Hi and thank you in advance for any advice.
Quick history, I took in this green cheek conure from a family home that had no time or attention for the ...

Alexandrine Head Feather Damage  I have two female Alexandrines which I have had only for a couple of months. They were from different breeders. They appear to have some minor feather ...

Parakeet keeps constantly opening its mouth  I have 2 parakeets i have no idea how old they are i got them from my aunts friend ive had them for 8 months. One of my parakeets dont open their mouth ...

my nanday has weak legs?  hi i hope you can give me an answer my nanday conure "romeo" is 11 years old all of a sudden i find him sitting in the bottom of his cage well hes become ...

cockatiel injury  is there any thing i can do for my cockatiel? he flew into the wall and seems to have injured his neck

Cockatiel's Irritated Wing  I posted a message about 3 weeks back concerning my cockatiel's wing. He had a small area on the tip of his wing that he continually picked at, in which ...

new bird with diarrhea every morning  Hi, I recently got a young Alexandrine parakeet. He is now 22 weeks. The day I brought him home he was immediatly put in a separate room for isolation,...

Cockatiel head twitching  my new cockatiel's head twitches from side to side most of the day. My other two cockatiels never did this but have now started. What have they got please?...

molting  our african grey is loosing his red tail feathers

Sun Conure picking nose and sneezing  I purchased a sun conure on Saturday, and he’s settling in pretty well. The pet store didn’t offer a health certificate, but they did offer a guarantee....

What type of illness does my parakeet have and how do I treat it?  My parakeet is sleeping a lot, not eating or drinking because when she does it appears as if she is about to throw up. I have seen these symptoms before ...

Pigeon with pimple like spots by the mouth  We raise Valencian Figuritta Pigeons. On one of the young we noticed odd pimple like spots on the outter two corners of the mouth. The bird is still ...

Bare vent Area  I have four Budgies and noticed that one of them has a bare vent area. This is a male Budgie aprox..10-11 months of age. He's not over weight, eats a healthy ...

Green Cheek Conure lost weight  Hi. I have a 6 year old Green Cheek Conure that I have only had for about 6 months. She is going through her first molt since I adopted her. She has ...

Lame cockatiel egg laying hen  My female cockatiel is 11 years old, and started laying her first eggs about a year ago. She was very persistent despite our efforts to dissuade her from ...

Baby budgie - resting her foot all the time.  Hi

My baby budgie who's six weeks old has begun resting her left foot all the time. She's leaning towards her right side and limping. Don't think she ...

Sun Conure picking feathers till he is bleeding on his chest.   I have a 8 year old sun conure. He has a large cage and is in a sun porch. He is generally a happy bird, very noisy and hand tamed. I woke up this morning ...

wood and metal toxicity, organic food, and cage-top playpen  Is linden wood toxic (tilia) for parrots ? (it is not on Dr Vanden's list)
Is nickel plated metal parts of toys toxic for birds ?
(I know that zinc is)...

Sun Conure eggs  How big are the eggs? I have a sun conure that had a large egg ~3" in circumference. I am not sure if she is distressed or if it is normal. She may have ...

parkeet quesrtion  hi my female bird laid her 1st egg on july 1, then another one on july 2 and third one today July 5. she is sitting on them most of the time. But my other ...

my lutino lovfe bird can be heard each time he breathes in suddenly  please can u help me i have a lutino peachface loe bird and suddenly everytime he breathes i can hear him...he seems to be a bit offcolour and sleeps alot ...

Macaw  Please help! My 2 year old Macaw has 2 red bumps on the face, one on each side. A while ago the same red, pimple like bump was there and went away. I ...

rust in the cage  We have 2 sun conures that are 3 months old and we like to put them in a very large out-side cage that has some rust spots on it. Both birds love to climb ...

Cockatiel death  Hi, my cockatiel of 12 years died a couple of days ago. About 2.5 years ago, he had a spell where he was breathing heavily for an afternoon. He stopped ...

changing crown color  Our two parakeets have spent time outside in our sunroom. We keep them up high so that they do not get any direct sunlight but just a well lit room. Both ...

Bump on face  Well, my bird has a small red bump on the side of his face,in the part where it is white, specifically on the left side. I have never noticed it but my ...

Should i play with my budgie with a cold?  Hi i've got a cold right now and i just wanted to know whether it could be harmful if i took out my budgie and kept him on my shoulder? It isn't a serious ...

Budgie has a bad foot  my budgie has a bad foot he will not close it on the perch. when i looked at it i can see two small red markes thet look like they could be sores. i thought ...

Quaker putting a strain on marriage  Dear kind vet: I apologize in advance for this long email. I am at my wits end with my 11y/o male quaker. He has always been an active, vocal bird. He ...

Need guideance about parrot's leg paralysis  Yesterday morning suddenly my parrot shouts unusually.i rushed to him .i observe that he was in severe pain and unusually he is biting the iron boundry ...

Female conure alone, male just died  Hi,

Today I had a pair of seemingly healthy, noisy Sun Conures. We had been out and came home and I gave them a carrot as I do once a week or so as ...

Prolonged molting in TAG?  Hello,
My 1.5-year-old TAG has been going through her first molt for about 4.5 months now. She seems in good health and is eating well. There are still ...

Cockatto's left foot seems to go limp at times  Hello,

We have a 10 year old male Goffins Cockatoo, Iggy, who has always been very healthy and boisterous. Recently, there are times when, for no apparent ...

Plucking Green Cheeked Conure  I have read some of the articles regarding feather plucking but wanted to ask you about my bird in particular. She is a green cheek conure about 7 years ...

Multiple Bird Recue questions  I am writing in hopes to get some help with my 4 birds. I have a 14 year old eclectus (who is a plucker and has a naked chest and under his wings) and ...

Eclectus rescue  I just got a eclectus male, not sure which kind i think he maybe a soloman he has a orange/yellow bill.I took him in as a rescue. this bird is so bald....

breeding process  i was wondering how old my female green cheeked conure should be before i breed her

Male Cockateil is pulling feathers out under his wing  For the past week I noticed what appeared to be the ring wing "swollen"
It wasn't till he lifted his wings I noticed just on the right side under his ...

Do older conures need special care?  I have a sun conure that I have raised since he hatched. Now that he is going on 16 years old I wonder if there is anything special he needs as he gets ...

Is it bad if it's face turns from white to yellow?  My blue parakeet has had a yellow face it is always white but it's featers have turned yellow.
why is that?
Is it not clean?

foot suddenly turned black  please can you help me ...my south african lutino love bird suddenly has his right leg gone black and seems to limp abit...also his underwing on the same ...

i just found out that my male yellow nape is a female  she has been laying eggs, almost 21 yrs old is this a sign that she may be dying? thank you.....this is the first yr that this has been happening...christina...

Eclectus  I have a female SI. She only has her dark grey feathers. I assume she is plucking but I do not know for sure. Her beak also grows very long. Is there ...

Peach Faced Love Bird  My love bird is 7 years old and I noticed her slow in climing the cage. Under her tail is a very large sack, what would this be?

Parakeet's wing  My parakeet is acting strange. He always is stretching out his wings, but today I noticed that he is lifting his right wing away from his body, and it ...

How to prevent cockatiel from chewing wing feathers?  Hello, my cockatiel of 10 years just recently (within the last 4 months) started picking at his wing feathers in one specific area. During the first few ...

My parakeet is sitting on the bottom of its cage.   My parakeet is about a year old or younger. About 2 days ago, it started to scratch it's beak a lot on the perch. It keeps opening its mouth but not the ...

Lame Gallah  My Gallah is unable to put any weight on his left leg Sudden onset over 2 days. Not particularly swollen. Has seen a vet and given anti inflammatory medication ...

Head twitching (african grey)&parrot gathering?  I have a 6 month old african grey parrot. Her head kinda of in between a shake and a twitch.Is this normal? I did brought her to a avian doctor to get ...

new carpeting  Due to the recent flooding in our area we had to pull out all of our old carpet in the basement. My question is I was looking at new carpet that has the ...

Pulled Tail Feathers  Hello,
My dog got into my bird room and pulled the tail feathers of one of my parakeets. She pulled them through the bars of their cage. Should the bird ...

Proventicular Dilation Disease  We recently lost our Greenwing Macaw to PDD. She was our only bird. How long should we wait to get another bird? Our vet said to wait two weeks before ...

Can a pregnant lovebird travel?  Hello,
My wife and I were wondering if our pregnant lovebird can travel with us. We were planning to fly out the city for our 2nd wedding anniversary,...

stiff fingers  Yesterday i notice that my 19 years old white fronted amazone parrot can't use his fingers, they look like they are paralyse... even when eating, instead ...

Afican grey has lump in neck  My Afican grey has a lump on the side neck and it does not have feather on the lump. what could this be?

Missing flight feathers  Hi I have just bought a 10 week old budgie from a pet store and I am worried because he cant fly - he has no flight feathers! also his tail feathers seem ...

Can parrotlets eat cardboard  I set a tissue box in my two parrotlet's cage with some torn up tissues for bedding. they completely chewed up the front and ate it. Is that ok? Will ...

Paralyzed neck - African Grey TAG   Hello,
I have a 10 month old TAG. He has a deformed neck. His bone structure in his neck curves out to the left and makes him look hunch back. I have ...

Bird Dandruff  My African Gray has some weird white stuff in her feathers on top of her head. It feels really grainy. Her beak has slivers that feel like you can tear ...

weight loss in Souance Conure  My 10 yr old conure has appeared to lose weight about a yr or two ago. Around the same time I put him on a recommended pelleted diet. He did not eat ...

Rabbits  Is dende good for rabbits with kidney problems...ie early stages of kidney failure.

Would you please tell me how it could benefit my rabbit.

Thank ...

Love bird smearing poop on his face  I have a love bird that has started pooping on the strings that hold his bed up and he smears his face on it. I just want to make sure he is not sick and ...

my lovebird   my lovebird seems to suffer from fits and seizures. what can i do short of taking it to a vet. i'm on ssi and thus have a limited income

Living with a Parrot  Hi i have an african grey, and watching television yesterday a woman said that if you live with a parrot it is very hard for a woman to get pregnant and,...

LOST HIS VOICE  My Sun Conure Marly has lost his voice. We bought him a little over a week ago and he was noisy as ever, but now he can barely get a sound out. He seems ...

hand fed baby quaker parrot  few weeks old baby quaker parrot. loosing 5 or more tail feathers. baught him at a flea market, I am hand feeding him. he is living a box like hermit crabs ...

African Grey Dandruff  Why does my 40 year old African Grey Parrot have dandruff?

This past winter, I noticed that the room Smoky was staying in, constantly had to be dusted....

was my parrot too young when he was taken from his mother  i bought my african grey 4 months ago and he has been very sick twice since. the vet weighed him the other day and said he was very small for his age(the ...

why is my budgie plucking its head?  my budgie was fine one day and started aggressively plucking its head to the point of bleeding.
what do i do?
please help!
thanks
smire

separating a pair that have been together for 1 year  I am breaking off a relationship with an inconsiderate man that wishes to take back a gift he gave me and my male blue/gold a year ago ....Her name is ...

Cockatiel sneezed on my nose  This is the second time that I have suspected that my cockatiel has given me a sinus infection. The first time, however, he didn't sneeze directly into ...

Egg Laying  I just adopted a Yellow Naped Amazon that I was told was a male bird. I have had it about three weeks and it has been around my other Amazon. In the same ...

5 Month Yellow-Collard Macaw  We just brought home a 5 month old Yellow-Collard Macaw and I noticed that when I'm holding him, and he is nibbling at my fingers, his one wing twitches?...

baby tiel with stretched crop  I have a 18 day old baby tiel, that I pulled the night before last to handfeed. When I went to feed him yesterday morning, his crop was still full, so ...

My lovebird has seizures or fear  I have two healthy lovebirds about three years old. One of them has started having odd behavior when I pick up the cage and move it.
He grabs the bars ...

loosing his feathers  Why my Alexandrine parrot start loosing his feathers from the head? He start bercome bold. Shal I take him to veterinary? I'm in the hospital now for few ...

Parakeet wings are trembling and away from body?  I came home from work today and one of my parakeets had its wings slightly extended from its body and kept them there. They also seemed to be trembling....

14 yr. old African Grey ill  My 14 yr. old African grey is ill. He has had large droppings. At first they were bright green with an odor. He was treated for a bacteria infection ...

my parakeets wing bleeds  my parakeets wing bleeds and when it does not bleed my parakeet holds it out. whut should i do about my parakeets wing bleeding at home

feather plucking  my quaker is pulling out his feathers and bleeding .
the vet here seems to be more worried about him being over weight and wonts him to eat harrison's ...

Sneezing macaw  I have a 7yr old Scarlet Macaw that came from a home that chained smoked around him. He has been to a vet and got antibiotics for a sinus infection. He ...

Severe Macaw has red tint on face and feet  My severe macaw is showing some red tint on his face (in the white feathers) and on his feet. What is causing this and is it an issue I need to be concerned ...

Parakeet has strange poop  Good morning,
My parakeet is now 5 years old, and I have noticed in the past 3 weeks that his poop is solid white (no black ring like usual). He doesn'...

my macaw has lump on vent  hello i have a paralyzed macaw blue and gold and well i noticed he has a lump right by his vent so i was wondering cause morgan doesnt have any tailfeathers ...

Feather plucking  We have an aviary of all male birds - cockatiel, rosellas, red rump, barraband etc - well apart from a wrongly sexed Rock Pebbler who turned out to lay ...

5 Year Old CAG Has been pink for 3 weeks  I had my birds wings clipped 3 weeks ago, and it obviously stressed him terribly. He stopped talking for about a week, starting plucking feathers,and ...

DEWORMING COCKATIEL BABIES  MY COCKAITELS ARE PROUD NEW PARENTS AND I READ THAT I SHOULD DEWORM THE BABIES. THE WAY THE BOOK MADE IT SOUND IS THAT I ONLY NEEDED TO DO IT IF MY BIRDS ...

3 month half moon conure  I bought my conure in the market and it seemed healthy and alert. The next day he seemed alert and fine. Two days after I purchased him he seemed lethargic ...

lovebirds legs cracked and bleeding  I purchased a pair of blue-masked lovebirds in December, they were about 6-8 months old at the time. We were told by the petstore that they were male and ...

sleep time  My son has two lovebirds. He keeps them covered a lot of the time. Can you tell me how much time should the birds be kept covered ?

If they talk too ...

half moon conure loss of appetite and inactive  In the past month I have noticed Cisco has become much less active, less talkative, actually has fallen from his perch at least once, sleeps more in daytime,...

Jenday conure strange behaviour  "My Jenday conure "Jaydee" has now for the past 3 days been playing underneath his cage lining. Making these funny squibbly squeeky noises. Is this normal?...

lovebird seizures  My lovebird, 3 years old, has occasional seizures. She falls off her perch, screems and her head is back and her claws are cluched. It only happens at ...

surgery to remove cockatile's uterus  hello
i have a 10 1/2 yr old female cockateil who has an egg in her uterus which is deformed and calcium has built up around it and also on the walls ...

my macaw stressed or sick?  my 8 year old blue and gold macaw and i just moved down to florida by car,and the first few days he was acting normal then all of a sudden he turn aggressive ...

plucking electus male  What in YOUR opinion would be the best pellet for him. He is 11 years old and has plucked his check the last 5. I think he had something in some new ...

sick tiel  I have a cockatiel that is a little over a year old. Starting 6 days ago she starting having major issues. I noticed her poop became a solid black. It ...

Cockatiel Died  My husband and I got a baby cockatiel that we had to hand feed until he could eat the seed diet we got Snowy in Nov 2007. Everything was fine we took ...

Parakeet scratching and rubbing his face; lots of white flakes  For the past few weeks (probably more than a month), my budgerigar has been rubbing his "face" on various objects (my finger, the perch in his cage, etc....

Parrotlet died - intestinal?  My parrotlet was 4. she seemed very happy the day I found her on the floor-passed away. She was on the top of her cage playing and then I looked over and ...

Double yellow amazon white flakes.  Hi I just got a double yellow headed amazon a few weeks ago. I have given him pellets and pretty bird pellets plus seeds. He has a lot of white flakes ...

diet for african grey  I have a 23 year old grey timneh that I adopted from a shelter. He had a companions also a timneh who who was 27 years old who died last week. The vet ...

budgie parakeet's hurt foot  My male budgie parakeet has had trouble with a hurt foot in the past but later on he started using it normally. One week ago he seemed to have hurt that ...

Excessive Egg Laying  I have a female and male 7