Hope it is nothing serious
Hope it's nothing serious. Usually with vomiting the head goes rapidly side to side expelling the vomit a good distance while with regurg. the head goes up and down and they deposit the regurged food onto an item or swallow it back down.Ok, back from the vet. We came to the conclusion that it's a sort of regurgitating.
They told me to monitor his feedings and feed him only when i am there to watch and see if he regurgitates it right after.
So it's a "wait and see" right now.
As of now, Butter is in his cage playing with a toy.
That's what's weird. His head went side to side but it came out like regurgitation would.Hope it's nothing serious. Usually with vomiting the head goes rapidly side to side expelling the vomit a good distance while with regurg. the head goes up and down and they deposit the regurged food onto an item or swallow it back down.
I do that sometimes just to try and get him to eat and not focus on coming out, but he still doesn't eat for like 5 minutes because he's exited that he's out.Try feeding him outside of the cage! Maybe he gets so excited that instead of focusing on eating he just wants to come out. So try feeding him out of his cage!
Strange as it is, they didn't.... The vet isn't an "avian" vet, he's just "exotics".... Can't go to a qualified avian vet because they are 2 and a half hours away.Did they culture anything or take any sample to make sure it wasn't an infection?
He only vomited once last Wednesday. And he hasn't vomited since.Has he vomited lately? He definitely looks uncomfortable. When my bird was sick it was obvious that she was trying to vomit, head bobbing up and down quickly. hopefully it's nothing serious.
I can't be there all day to feed him when he needs food, so i would rather just leave him with the bowl in his cage.try to give him smaller meals, about 1/2 of a tablespoon. if he is still doing it reduce it even more. i had budgie that use to eat too fast and regurg. i started with 1/2 teaspoon
I really do appreciate the info.My thoughts were the same as your vet said, when I watched your video. I have read this topic twice to be certain of what you were saying before inserting my foot in my mouth. So here goes. First and foremost it occurs to me that not feeding your bird until noon is not good husbandry and neither is feeding him an all pelleted diet. We learned some time back that an all seed diet was killing our birds and pellets, regardless of how much they may have changed, some for the better and some even worse, are still primarily seeds that are ground up too fine for them to choose any certain seed. But they are still mostly seeds. If you are going to provide pellets all of the time, free feeding them, then there is little chance that you are going to get him to eat anything else. You should consider removing the pellets after he goes to bed for the night and then offer him some cooked whole grains and chopped up veggies and fruit for breakfast. Then provide a limited portion of the pellets for him to eat in the evening. Also you should be aware that for a parrot eating is a social as well as a bonding event so you should sit and nibble on some veggies with him when you offer them to him. I don't know how much of this you were aware of but since you didn't mention using any of these things I though it might be a good idea to remind you of them.