Health

Occasionally I see some of my gouldians (female & male) sitting a little puffed. If I go into the room, they will get thin again and hop from perch to perch. Is this normal. Do they sit and rest sometime or is there something not right. Also some of my gouldians are around 7 years old. Thanks for your help.

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Since my last email to you about the dropped wings, I have taken my gouldian to a vet. The vet did see a whole seed in his mouth ...What does that mean????? and she was hesitating on giving him Baytril which is what I thought he needed but she did give me the Baytril. The vet took an ultrasound and a couple of days later she sent me a 4 page booklet on liver disease.

One of my canaries just passed away and symptoms were: 1 week listless, puffed up, tail bobbing, no singing, and constipation. The bird would eat and drink some. She died gasping for breath as fluid came out of her nose and mouth. Upon examination of her mouth I was looking for mites, but pressed her chest and lots of clear fluid came out of her nose and mouth.

Hello Dr. Rob, I am a friend of Laraine and am very impressed with your products. I have a two fold question. I also have the Canary Health book and my birds are the ones on the cover. I bought some Yorkie canaries from someone and one of them continues to display the "butt bobbing" (I know that sounds weird, but Laraine and I don't know what else to call it.

Hi Dr. Rob, I have an indoor aviary with Lady Gouldian Finches. This morning I witnessed a young bird suddenly drop to the ground from a 5' high perch. It flopped about on the ground as if in some kind of epileptic fit. After about 2 minutes of this behavior, it seemed to regain it's senses and flew back up onto the branch, but does not seem entirely well.

I have a male red factor canary with what appears to be a soft facial tumor, it hangs underneath the beak. The poor bird twitches and scratches. This is the second red factor canary I have had develop facial tumors. Is this a feature of red factors. I have your canary book and have looked elsewhere for help with no luck. Is this fatal? Any thing to be done to prevent or treat? Thanks Molly

Hi Dr. Rob! I rescued a Gould from a pet store that obviously had no idea how to care for it (sucker for a pretty face here). The bird had lost all of it's head feathers and his coloration was so bad that I couldn't tell if it was male or female (all feathers were very pale)! He had a nasty case of scaly face/leg and airsac mites.

Dr. Rob I have a colony of English Budgies that I am having trouble with. Two of them started having very dirty vents. Dark green sticking to their feathers. It stayed the two for a long time and now the rest have it. I treated them with one day of Worm Away, followed by five days of Amoxitex, followed by seven days of Ronex, and then three days of probiotics. They actually seem to be worse.

Dr. Rob, I had a gouldian die this morning and want to know what to do with the rest of them so they don't follow a similar fate. I house 13 goulds in an outdoor aviary. I noticed 1 appearing sluggish so I brought him inside and gave him warmth and food. I started him on Amoxitex but didn't notice any improvement after 2 1/2 days so I switched to Cocci-care.