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Dr.Rob, I have a male gouldian, it started yesterday, sat on perch with eyes closed, acts kinda drunk when flys, been on bottom of cage some too,can you help.thanks

I just bought a male canary Approximately 1 year old from a private party. They said it was a beautiful singer. I noticed it's feathers were puffy. A few hours after getting it home it tried to sing but only croaked a little.

Hi there, Dr. Rob! I have a rather puzzling problem. I have a five month old Gouldian male (raised by his parents) who seems healthy. However, I have noticed for the past few months that every now and then his feet vibrate rapidly on and off for a few minutes and then stop. He always looks down at them as if asking "why are my feet doing this?" He gets a very good varied diet and supplements.

Dear Dr. Rob, I have a male canary that is very active, alert, and healthy. However, he has made noises like sloshing wet shoes when breathing and opens his beak to clear something from his throat. During the daytime, his breathing is mostly normal followed by a few times trying to clear his throat by opening his beak and making a slushy noise.

Hello Dr. Rob, My black-headed Female has started to breathe very heavily and at times with her mouth open. She also has her chest puffed up and she is sleeping with her head tucked over her back. Any advice on this will be most helpful. thanks & regards Sujan Chatterjee from Calcutta India

We just lost a female canary that we had for almost a year. She laid one egg in June that never hatched. She seemed fine after that but around the middle of July we noticed that she was losing feathers around her neck. Brought her to the people we bought her from, (they sell only birds and have a very good reputation for quality and knowledge) they found an infection on the skin on her neck.

I am very new to finches- for the past year I've been working with them, and have a mix of gouldians, zebras, cordon blues, societies, canaries, orange cheek waxbills, etc. I have an 'indoor aviary' of sorts, where an entire room is basically set up as one big cage with perches around the perimeter of the room and actual cages within the room that remain open so the birds can fly in and out.

Hello Dr. Rob, I'm hoping you can help me out. About 2 years ago I began raising gouldian finches. I have 5 each males and females, none of which are related. The first year, eleven babies were successfully raised with no deaths (although less than half of the fertile eggs hatched while the majority died in the shell). However, something worse has happened this year.

Hello again Dr. Rob, I realize you haven't responded to my first question, but I thought perhaps an update would be useful information in case you did. I took my budgie who was passing undigested seeds off of your supplements just in case he was reacting to something in them, and now I'm using the Morning Bird supplements.

Hi, I have a young SF Yellow Gould male that has shown signs of discomfort in his right ankle. At first there was no swelling present and after about 2 weeks his ankle swelled up. I have him in a hospital cage and was hand-feeding him since he had gotten extremely thin. I put him on Amtyl and Guardian Angel and he seemed to perk up a bit and his swelling was slightly reduced.