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This is my first post and I have a lot of things to ask you guys !
I had a budgie for 11 years and he died earlier this month, I think it was from a liver tumor; he was a strong little guy (he's the one in my avatar; his name was Angel !) and he never had to go to the vet, he was always very healthy. A week after he passed, I decided to adopt a new budgie to ease my pain a little (I was crying constantly). It's a little girl I named Pixie and she's quite the princess. The only thing she would eat at first was millet and she didn't drink at all. I bought a new, bigger cage for her because she didn't seem to like my budgie's old cage. The one I got is the M01 vision cage.
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I have a few problems: at first, she didn't want to eat from the bowls at all so I had to handfeed her and give her water from a spoon. I left some millet for her (which she devoured) and tried veggies but she didn't touch them. She actually got around to eating in the bowls during two days, then my mom bought her a ladder so it would be easier for her to get to the bowls and since then she hasn't gone down to eat at all. I feed her the Hagen Gourmet seed mix, which my last budgie ate during his 11 years of existence. Angel always had honey millet and regular millet at his disposal but I actually ration it with Pixie because if I give it to her, she will eat it aggressively fast and ditch everything else. I'm now back to handfeeding her and giving her water from a spoon.
The thing is, a week and half ago, she started to show symptoms of a respiratory infection. At first, I thought she was just stressed from the move but today, her state worsened. She's sneezing a lot and wheezing, making squeaky noises when she breathes; she actually scratched her head so much she has some missing feathers near her right eye. Yesterday, she was chirping and flying around the house a lot, she was still doing this in the morning but she's slept most of the afternoon. I took an appointment with the vet for tomorrow, which is pretty far from where I live.
I hope she'll get better and I want to do everything I can do to help her. What do you think I should do so Pixie will eat better ? She doesn't want to try veggies even if I sprinkle them with seeds or eat them in front of her. Angel always wanted to eat whatever I was eating (and wanted me to feed him directly from my mouth hahaha) but she only seems to want millet and nothing else. She will rather starve then eat veggies; in the mix I give her, there are pellets but she never takes them, she spits them out if she ever happens to pick them up. She eats from a vitamin block (orange-flavored one) but she doesn't touch her mineral block or her cuttlebone; what should I do for her to get all the nutriments she needs so she gets better and avoid getting sick again ? I'm a student and I can't really afford many vet appointments...
I had a budgie for 11 years and he died earlier this month, I think it was from a liver tumor; he was a strong little guy (he's the one in my avatar; his name was Angel !) and he never had to go to the vet, he was always very healthy. A week after he passed, I decided to adopt a new budgie to ease my pain a little (I was crying constantly). It's a little girl I named Pixie and she's quite the princess. The only thing she would eat at first was millet and she didn't drink at all. I bought a new, bigger cage for her because she didn't seem to like my budgie's old cage. The one I got is the M01 vision cage.
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I have a few problems: at first, she didn't want to eat from the bowls at all so I had to handfeed her and give her water from a spoon. I left some millet for her (which she devoured) and tried veggies but she didn't touch them. She actually got around to eating in the bowls during two days, then my mom bought her a ladder so it would be easier for her to get to the bowls and since then she hasn't gone down to eat at all. I feed her the Hagen Gourmet seed mix, which my last budgie ate during his 11 years of existence. Angel always had honey millet and regular millet at his disposal but I actually ration it with Pixie because if I give it to her, she will eat it aggressively fast and ditch everything else. I'm now back to handfeeding her and giving her water from a spoon.
The thing is, a week and half ago, she started to show symptoms of a respiratory infection. At first, I thought she was just stressed from the move but today, her state worsened. She's sneezing a lot and wheezing, making squeaky noises when she breathes; she actually scratched her head so much she has some missing feathers near her right eye. Yesterday, she was chirping and flying around the house a lot, she was still doing this in the morning but she's slept most of the afternoon. I took an appointment with the vet for tomorrow, which is pretty far from where I live.
I hope she'll get better and I want to do everything I can do to help her. What do you think I should do so Pixie will eat better ? She doesn't want to try veggies even if I sprinkle them with seeds or eat them in front of her. Angel always wanted to eat whatever I was eating (and wanted me to feed him directly from my mouth hahaha) but she only seems to want millet and nothing else. She will rather starve then eat veggies; in the mix I give her, there are pellets but she never takes them, she spits them out if she ever happens to pick them up. She eats from a vitamin block (orange-flavored one) but she doesn't touch her mineral block or her cuttlebone; what should I do for her to get all the nutriments she needs so she gets better and avoid getting sick again ? I'm a student and I can't really afford many vet appointments...
hoto: soon!!
