| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
| Notice: | INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.* |
| Moderator: | VIDEO::PULSIFER |
| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I had a scare the other night Buddie (my budgie) was at the kitchen
table with me and stretching his neck like he was trying to throw
up. I thought he was fooling around and just acting silly untill
he didn't stop. I examined him closely and it appeared that his
chest or crop was severly indented.
I panicked and didn't know what to do. I thought back to when he
was younger(he is 4 months now) and was told not to let him go with
out food too long. Although he had been in his cage � hour before
I thought maybe there was nothing in his seed dish that he cared
to eat. So I offered him some fresh seeds, he ate a couple then
shook his head and sprayed me with the few seeds he had eaten. He
proceeded to gorge himself with the seeds and his chest filled back
up and has been fine since.
Any inputs ? Was I starving my baby or what ?
Doug
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| 150.1 | probably choking... | SBLANC::MOEHLENPAH | Thu Mar 30 1989 15:11 | 15 | |
He was probably choking. I got a scare like this when I was hand
feeding my baby Hahn's. She got a piece of cheerio stuck in her
crop or something (maybe on the way down). I was weaning her at the
time and it gave me a REAL scare. We noticed her acting strange
and the main thing is to REMAIN CALM. I started massaging her crop
and neck. Since I figured that it might be hard and this was causing
the obstruction, I started putting distilled water in a syringe and
squirting some in her beak and more massaging. After a few minutes,
she was able to choke it up. Needless to say, I was exhausted.
This happened about twice during her weaning. I was fortunate to have
an understanding boss to let me arrange my work schedule around
the hand feeding and weaning stages.
Ed
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