Sick budgie, please help!!!

[SunflowerTheBun]

Hi everyone,

Bit of an emergency.
I came home from school today to hear my mum tell me that one of our indoor budgies has been sitting on the bottom of the cage all day and isn't doing well.

Some background info:
Name: Bouncy
Other injuries: Rescued from our avairy due to either being squashed in the nest or falling out of it - due to this he has now had a backwards foot for years.
Age: Who knows...let's go with 5 years old.
Health: Has never been sick before
Behaviour: Due to lame leg he often falls of perches if frightened, he's never injured himotherwise very normal budgie, climbing around, chatters with cage-mate Miffy (who is his uncle and even older, very cunning bird though - if either were going to die soon it'd be Miffy from old age)

I've tried to feed him some banana but he didn't eat it.

Unfortunately if I can't do anything to drastically change Bouncy's state now, I doubt he'll survive til morning (It's 4:30pm here in Australia).

I don't have good access to bird medications (due to shops around here and my parents who don't care enough )

We've been having a bit of bad luck with birds recently; two chickens dead (probably mites/lice - I had a thread to help one but the other? I came home from school one day and she was gone), one mysteriously dissapeared and my dad forgot to close one of the avairy doors one day so a bunch of finches escaped.

Can someone suggest something to help Bouncy???

 

[JaeG]

Perhaps something gave him a fright and he's had a bit of a crash. I have a bourkes parakeet that does that sometimes and she will spend a few days on the bottom of the cage recovering before she can get back up on the perches. I'd put food and water nearby for him and try to keep things quiet and stress free.

Is Bouncy definitely a boy? Fluffed up at the bottom of the cage can be a sign of being egg bound. But if you're sure he's a boy it won't be that.

I hope he makes it. Poor little guy.

 

[SandeeC]

As JaeG said just make sure he has water mainly in a shallow dish, food I wouldn't worry about just yet, Our Budgie "Fudge" is now 9 and he has had several falls onto the bottom of his cage, but the comes good again. Does he have cuttlefish shell in his cage? I was always told to make sure Budgies have it for calcium Hope he is up and better soon hun x Will be thinking of you
Just another note, can you grab some wild seed grass etc from outside, green preferably Or some thistle flowers

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

Perhaps something gave him a fright and he's had a bit of a crash. I have a bourkes parakeet that does that sometimes and she will spend a few days on the bottom of the cage recovering before she can get back up on the perches. I'd put food and water nearby for him and try to keep things quiet and stress free.

Is Bouncy definitely a boy? Fluffed up at the bottom of the cage can be a sign of being egg bound. But if you're sure he's a boy it won't be that.

I hope he makes it. Poor little guy.

THANK YOU! Definitely a boy, I'll get some water down there.

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

As JaeG said just make sure he has water mainly in a shallow dish, food I wouldn't worry about just yet, Our Budgie "Fudge" is now 9 and he has had several falls onto the bottom of his cage, but the comes good again. Does he have cuttlefish shell in his cage? I was always told to make sure Budgies have it for calcium Hope he is up and better soon hun x Will be thinking of you
Just another note, can you grab some wild seed grass etc from outside, green preferably Or some thistle flowers

- Yes we have cuttlefish, I'll move it lower for him. You guys, I'm not so sure about the crash, he often falls down but he's never done this and the cage isn't that high...but the fact that's what it might be and not something serious has me more hopeful.

 

[SandeeC]

Does he get time to fly out of his cage?

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

I moved the water and cuttlefish to the bottom for him, and scared him in the process making him scuttle along the bottom of the cage. Glad he still has the heart to do that but not sure if he'll go back for the water. At least it's all down there for him now.

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

Does he get time to fly out of his cage?

No - but neither does Miffy.

 

[SunflowerTheBun]

I'm worried he's breathing very fast - I swear I heard his breath clicking earlier too but while I was watching it stopped. I had a finch's breath click too and she didn't last long.

 

[SandeeC]

Try a little honey in his water Fudge loves it