Sick Cockatiel Female

Bird Ranger

Songster
7 Years
Apr 8, 2017
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Lahore,Pakistan.
Hi, I hope everyone is in good health.I keep a mix colony of budgies(13) and cockatiels(6).Ever since I brought the cocaktiels home its almost more than 2 months. One of my female coackatiel is sick. Her diet is up to the mark or atleast she eats more than other birds.But she is lazy all the time and most of the time she is sitting on a perch with her beak in her feathers.She is not active like my other cockatiels.when flying her body feels a bit heavy for her feathers.She mostly uses the cage wires to go down or come up on perches and can not cover distances in one go like my other cockatiels.She is puffy and aslo shivers.I have gone through two courses of different broad spectrum antibiotics for about 4-6 days but to no help.Their diet includes mix seed, and different soft foods like soaked wheat, spinach, mint leaves, egg bread and boiled rice. plz suggest me what to do I am worried. The outdoors. colony is spacious enough 7×6.5×6. She shows no interest in mating or having a partner she has also become bald. Plz come up with a solution that does not involve her separating from other birds.Thank you.I have added her video check it.😪⬇️
 
Thanks pullet!
Hi, I hope everyone is in good health.I keep a mix colony of budgies(13) and cockatiels(6).Ever since I brought the cocaktiels home its almost more than 2 months. One of my female coackatiel is sick. Her diet is up to the mark or atleast she eats more than other birds.But she is lazy all the time and most of the time she is sitting on a perch with her beak in her feathers.She is not active like my other cockatiels.when flying her body feels a bit heavy for her feathers.She mostly uses the cage wires to go down or come up on perches and can not cover distances in one go like my other cockatiels.She is puffy and aslo shivers.I have gone through two courses of different broad spectrum antibiotics for about 4-6 days but to no help.Their diet includes mix seed, and different soft foods like soaked wheat, spinach, mint leaves, egg bread and boiled rice. plz suggest me what to do I am worried. The outdoors. colony is spacious enough 7×6.5×6. She shows no interest in mating or having a partner she has also become bald. Plz come up with a solution that does not involve her separating from other birds.Thank you.I have added her video check it.😪

Here, I'll post to keep the thread going. I hope she gets better!
(I think that @LothalRebel might have a cockatiel, maybe she could help.)
Are you sure she is sick and not just lazy?
How much does she eat, and have you weighed her?
 
This is my boy, Scout:
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A healthy adult should weigh between 120 or 70 grams.
 
I see she has no crest either, does she get picked on?
or maybe she is molting, some of the chickens get melancholy when they molt. We have never had our tiels get sick, maybe an avian vet could tell you.
No she doesn't get picked on she is quite the boss😂. May be you are right but she always likes solitude and doesn't socialize with other birds.
 

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