Flutterby1
Checking out the neighborhood
- Joined
- 8/15/22
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Hi I'm new to bird keeping and I think I've ended up with some sadly neglected birds that need a lot of tlc and various other things when they came there were 5 adult birds in a 30by 20cm cage with saw dust and wood shavings as there bedding and over 20 toys and 2 huge swings it looked like Blackpool pleasure Beach in there I had been looking for a hen bird after taking some advice from a breeder and found these on pets4homes and only wanted 1 but ended up with 5 which I sold 2 to the local pet shop and 1 of them the lady told me was a deformed 1 that had been born that way with bad balance issues and just stayed on bottam of cage and could get to food and water OK and she said was quite happy! The 1st thing I did was put them in a much larger cage and trim there nails as 2 hen birds were so long they were curling but apart from that didn't look 2 bad apart from 1 being very overweight and had not much flight muscles as they hadn't been able to fly due to no space and the amount of toys so i had 2 in 1 cage and 2 in another 1 of them being the deformed bird I've now had them a few weeks and have treated them for scaly leg mites and a broad spectrum mite killer which was a spray I noticed the deformed 1 who I'd named bumble had bad balance issues and would often fall over on his side or back he looked to have tiny eyes and a scaby head under his feathers he's a gloster and has the bowl haircut and I've now seen he does have normal sized eyes they are just covered with feathers which I don't know if I should trim or not and today he's been really bad staggering and falling over which is very upsetting to see and we don't have a avian vet within a 5 hour radius but he is still drinking and eating and has a very good appetite and cheeps and talks quite a bit but as I say tonight I notice his bottam beak doesn't seem to me to be right as where it joins his head there's like a concave bit right at the back near where it meets his head the bottam beak this is and I carnt find much information about it so I'm asking on here for help to try and help him and to determine why this is like this and if I should trim his feathers so all of his eyes are uncovered they are all on a very varied diet and have normal canary mix with linseed and some egg food in it aswell as sunflower hearts Niger seed and blue maw seeds and also fresh fruit or veg at least once aday sometimes twice depending how quickly they eat the 1st lot they have spinach,kale,brocoli,fresh peas,apple,pear,peppers and also sprouting seed mix, nectarine so I'm hoping it's a good diet I'm giving them also I would like to know about extra egg food do you give them it straight or add water to it ? There is a little bits in there canary mix and I have offered it once but they wasn't that intrested so wondered what I'm not doing I did add a bit of water so should I leave it dry ? Also I now have bumble in a smaller cage on his own right next to the others as he was getting messed on alot by the other bird and as he struggles to keep himself clean thought this the better option for him and he's still cheeping away and they answer him back so he knows that he's not alone so any advice about his beak or trimming feathers and there diet would be greatly recieved and any advice how to make bumble not so unbalanced would be much appreciated