Many things in the behavior of birds still remain a mystery to humans, and this is the special “magic” of these birds, which attract more and more attention.
According to statistics, over the past year the number of families who decided to purchase a parrot has increased by almost one and a half times!
This is, of course, an absolutely fantastic indicator. However, let's gradually return to the topic of our article.
We can say with complete confidence that the process of regurgitation in parrots has nothing to do with the unstudied habits of birds, and has a completely scientific explanation.
It is usually customary to identify two main reasons why a parrot acts so unaesthetically.
- Reason one - boundless love
- Why does this happen this way?
- Reason two – “I don’t understand what’s mine”
- Situations to think about
Behavior when feeling unwell: first signs of illness
If the owner is attentive to his pet, he will immediately notice something wrong in the behavior of the budgerigar. The bird's appearance changes because parts of the vomit stick to its beautiful plumage.
First signs
The magical color of the fluffy feathers disappears under this mass, they stick together. Wavy is very upset by this, he tries to cleanse himself, but the attacks follow one after another.
Its head turns sharply to the left and then to the right, and its beak spits out the next portion of undigested grains covered with sticky mucus.
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This is already a disease in full bloom. However, an attentive owner will catch its progress at distant approaches, since the disease has many symptoms:
- If a cheerful bird disappears from sight for an unusually long time, hides in a corner, dozes somewhere, or simply sits with its eyes closed, you need to be wary.
- If the feathers on the chest and belly are wet to the touch, they will soon stick together: the pet has been vomiting.
- If the parrot is ruffled and sad, it is indifferent even to treats.
- If diarrhea appears, the intestines are probably infected, but this does not happen immediately, which means that there was vomiting before.
When to go to the vet
If you don’t know what to do and what to do at the moment, if the parrot is choking and vomiting food uncontrollably, you need to consult a doctor. For a consultation or to call him at home.
If a bird is vomiting, the best thing to do if you lack treatment skills is to call a specialist or go to him for an appointment. Only professional treatment will return the bird to health.
Possible causes of vomiting
For what reasons can a parrot vomit?
Poor care and feeding errors
Sometimes the owner panics in vain: the wavy dog (other breeds too) often shows its location to its relatives, regurgitating grains for a treat, for example, a female or best friend.
And the little feathered mother always feeds her chicks this way. Don't worry, this type of behavior indicates the pet's good health, so it is not included in the symptoms.
Much more often it turns out that people feed wavy birds with food that is not fresh, or the birds themselves feast on whatever they have. Igor Ignatenkov
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Attention! Many indoor plants, for all their beauty, are poisonous. They need to be given to relatives or put away in an inaccessible place (where can you get such a corner if the bird flies everywhere?).
Human food is not suitable for them! Some foods are deadly to birds. But not all their owners understand this. You need to carefully hide washing powders and detergents.
Poor parrot care
The chemicals contained in them will destroy this bird of paradise. You need to remember how curious she is and monitor her diet carefully.
Sometimes the owner is really crazy about his pet and constantly tries to please the baby with something. But you need to think about your actions! Especially when choosing toys, mirrors and other little things to decorate the cage and variety of games.
This is how the wavy baby gets dangerous mechanical injuries: he either chews off a piece of plastic or swallows a piece of a mirror. The mucous membranes are damaged, and a foreign object in the throat interferes with eating and breathing. This is how vomiting occurs. Any injury leads to a subsequent infectious attack on the body.
Parasites
The presence of parasites in the wavy always causes vomiting. There are quite a few types of infection.
Parasites can cause vomiting
Avian trichomoniasis is especially common and almost always kills your pet. If the vomit smells like fish, we are probably dealing with this extremely contagious disease.
The patient must be immediately isolated and go to the clinic to see an ornithologist, where they will examine a smear from the goiter and determine the presence or absence of a concomitant bacterial infection.
Candidiasis is no less common - at any age. The participation of a veterinarian in treatment is mandatory because it is necessary to check the bird for cryptococcosis. If the first pathology is curable, then the second is always fatal: it affects the nervous system. Even treatment is not carried out - it is useless.
The third fungal disease is megabacteriosis, which will be discussed below.
Problems with goiter
Inflammation
The defeat of this sac-like organ, which is located to the right of the trachea, threatens the failure of food digestion right at the initial stage of this process. The metabolic secretion helps the bird soften hard grains before they enter the stomach.
Inflammation as one of the causes of vomiting in a parrot
In addition, this semi-finished product is suitable for feeding small chicks. If the goiter becomes inflamed, the gland abundantly secretes a cloudy liquid, which overloads the container, and the body tries to get rid of ballast. The result is vomiting.
Crop blockage
If the owner does not respond to the pet’s illness for a long time, the disease progresses, and therefore the bird cannot push what it has eaten either forward or backward: the parrot burps, but to no avail, even the vomiting does not go away. Most often the outcome is fatal. This is a very gentle and vulnerable creature, it needs constant attention and care.
Stomach problems
Pathological expansion of the stomach
Here we need to talk about megabacteriosis. This is the most difficult problem of all that the fungus causes. The bird's vomiting is debilitating and regular, and the food is poorly digested.
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This disease is chronic, and therefore infected pets do not live long. Another dangerous pathogen that is accompanied by gastric dilatation is bornovirus. Here the diagnosis is complex; laboratory tests are indispensable; X-rays are required. The disease is practically incurable.
Causes of vomiting in a parrot
Gastritis
Acute or chronic gastritis in a parrot is always dangerous. It not only causes vomiting, but also indicates that the walls of the bird’s stomach are inflamed and its entire body is suffering.
The success of treatment depends only on early diagnosis and prompt response. If your pet is vomiting, you should immediately contact a specialist. The disease is developing rapidly, and therefore very soon the owner will lose his little chirping miracle.
Other gastrointestinal diseases
Parrots also have tumors of internal organs, and the gastrointestinal tract suffers from them especially often. Vomiting is rarely an independent disease. These are almost always pathologies. Usually the goiter, stomach or intestinal tract suffer from viruses, fungal infections or banal poisoning.
Treatment
The main treatment course is prescribed by the doctor. He gives recommendations, prescribes medications, prescribes proper nutrition. You should follow his recommendations exactly. Otherwise, it will not be possible to restore the bird’s health.
There are several areas of treatment:
- healthy eating required;
- good living conditions are required;
- You should buy prescribed medications and carry out treatment according to the prescription.
Correction of food and conditions of detention
A change in diet is necessary. If poisoning occurs, you need to eliminate the previous regimen and establish a healthy diet.
Making adjustments to bird food is a direct path to stabilizing bird health. Your doctor will provide you with a list of beneficial nutrients. Restoring a bird's stomach in a tiny feathered creature is a serious matter that requires care. The instructions given at the clinic appointment must be strictly followed. The use of additional feed is excluded.
Conditions of detention are one of the ways of recovery. The cage needs to be spacious and clean. The water is always fresh. The place where the sick bird lives should be well lit. It is worth removing all plants that can cause harm, hiding various powders and detergents.
Drug treatment as prescribed by a doctor
There are many cases when the owner does not notice how his parrot is choking, how he spits out pecked grain, because his stomach does not accept food, there are many, and the question of what to do often ends with a trip to the doctor. On site, the appointment ends with receiving prescriptions for drug treatment.
Medicines prescribed by a doctor must be taken according to what is indicated in the prescription. Each drug has its own time and dose. It is prohibited to exceed the dosage, otherwise the medicine will be harmful. If there is no medicine, you should consult a doctor so that he can recommend an analogue of the drug.
Treatment, as a rule, is prescribed differently. But there is a remedy that is considered permanent. This is water and added catosal solution. This type of medicine should always be kept in the bird's first aid kit. The remaining “bird medicines” are used strictly according to the list provided by the doctor.
How to help your pet?
Determining the root cause
Self-diagnosis
It is better not to try to do this on your own. It is not so difficult to distinguish mechanical damage from poisoning, but in the case of infections, the owner as a diagnostician is powerless.
Vomiting in a wavy
It is also difficult to understand the root cause:
- the pet hit its head, resulting in a concussion;
- swallowed a piece of plastic;
- he has parasites inside him... etc.
Only calling an ornithologist will truly be the right choice.
Problems with goiter
Goiter inflammation is a rather dangerous disease. At the very beginning it is very difficult to determine. At first, the parrot is no different from a healthy one. However, he is reluctant to eat or refuses food altogether. In mild cases, the patient becomes drowsy. He stops reacting to what is happening around him. Despite this, the pet continues to eat normally. With all this, he cannot swallow food, and the food gets clogged in the crop. There is frequent secretion of copious amounts of saliva.
A budgerigar vomits due to blockage of the crop with foreign objects or large grains. To determine the presence of a blockage, the owner needs to carefully examine his pet from all sides. The goiter becomes large, and when pressed with a finger you can feel it hardening. In case of complications, the bird completely stops eating, because there is a severe inflammatory process in the body. The abdomen begins to sag, the mucous membranes become covered with a blue coating and become cold. The patient develops diarrhea and periodically vomits profusely. Wheezing and severe shortness of breath may also occur. The bird's appearance deteriorates significantly. If nothing is done, strangulation may occur.
Damage to the nervous system can also lead to blockage of the goiter. The parrot begins to eat everything, regardless of whether he is hungry or not. In this case, contacting a specialist is mandatory. Only an ornithologist can establish the correct diagnosis and prescribe the correct treatment.
General recommendations
If it is not possible to show a sick parrot to a doctor immediately, emergency measures must be taken to alleviate its condition.
Firstly, if a bird starts vomiting, it should not be fed or watered for about two to three hours.
Secondly, you need to limit your pet’s movements - do not let him out of the cage to preserve vitality.
Thirdly, it is necessary to completely change the diet. Any vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs, fortified foods and mineral supplements should be excluded.
Instead, you will have to give the bird oats and corn grits with the addition of crushed activated carbon at the rate of one tablet per day. She should also always have access to clean water. It is necessary to constantly monitor your pet's droppings. If diarrhea begins, rice porridge is added to the therapeutic diet.
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Sadness
Causes of the disease: Budgerigars always mate for life. In indoor birds this instinct is very developed. Real manifestations of the disease can result from the death of one of the partners or a change in the person caring for a single bird. Symptoms, diagnosis: apathy, loss of appetite, melancholy for no apparent reason (carry out a good diagnosis, diseases caused by various pathogens are often detected!)
General measures: if possible, place the bird in a large flock, often the bird just blossoms and finds a new partner, in another case, add a new bird, similar in character to the dead one, besides, the birds need a lot of attention, optimal full feeding During illness and recovery, vitamins and glucose are added to drinking water.
Tags: budgie, maintenance, feeding, care, problems, diseases
Hypothermia of a budgie
Good afternoon
Good afternoon ! In case of hypothermia, which occurs due to open drafts when opening windows, vents, or using air conditioners. Parrots can actually get sick. In this situation, the Green Parrot bird hospital successfully uses the drug Rinbronchus, which removes the effects of inflammatory reactions from hypothermia. Rinbronchus is given by drinking 10-15 grains through a drinking bowl every day for 1 month. It is also useful to support the gastrointestinal microflora in birds by introducing probiotics into the drinking bowl - for example, primadophilis, or bifidumbacterin on the tip of a knife for 1 month. Vitamin preparations are also in demand when birds are sick. If treatment does not help, then in this case it is necessary to show the parrot to a veterinarian and have microbiological laboratory tests done.
Sincerely, Vladimir Romanov
Poisoning
Also, vomiting in a budgie is caused by poisoning with the following toxins:
- heavy metals or pesticides: arsenic, copper, zinc;
- various poisonous plants: avocado, dope, lily of the valley, mistletoe, wild grapes and others;
- forbidden foods, a list of which is given in the article “Can a budgie eat bread, eggs and other foods”;
- toxic emissions from cigarette smoke or incense sticks;
- spoiled or expired products;
- liquids containing chemicals: alcohol, dishwashing detergents and others.
Poisoning can also be caused by the bird’s body reacting to medications or overdosing them. If a parrot is poisoned, it can suffer not only from vomiting or diarrhea, but also from suffocation. If the bird is not taken to a doctor, it will die.
