flockof.4
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Hi. I’m new here so forgive me if I’m a little all over the place. I have four birds, one parakeet, one cockatiel, and two green cheek conures. This is concerning my one green cheek.
So, her name is Callie and I’ve had her since 8/1/19 (August 1st) and she’ll be a year old on April 27th. Her first vet appointment was January 30th or the 31st, a week and a half after one of my parakeets died and she was healthy, along with my other birds.
My mom and I cleaned the bird cages last Saturday and that night into Sunday, she was on the bottom of her cage, sleeping but was fine the next night. It’s normal for her to jump onto the bottom and look for food if her bowl needs fresh stuff (but she usually spits out the stuff on the bottom). She was fine all
week, doing her usual jump to the bottom and running around and then going back to the top into her little tent/hut where she likes to sleep. Since we got her the tent, it’s where she loves to sleep. During the day, she’ll nap at the back of her cage on top of it while i’m in the room usually sitting on my computer. She eats when she’s hungry and drinks, what i’m assuming, when she has to (since I don’t usually see any of my birds drink water besides for the other conure). Now, at night (last night and tonight) after I turn my lamp off, she goes to the bottom of the cage to sleep and only when I go to check on her is when she climbs up the cage but then I go back to lay down and she goes back on the bottom. She has her nights where she sleeps on the bottom and is fine during the day and then is back to normal sleeping in her tent the next night. This is (from what I can remember) the only time she’s slept down there twice in a row. She’s not molting and she acts normal except for maybe napping a little bit more but I’m also always in the room and I don’t do much except for sit at my computer and they’re all pretty quiet when there’s not much going on. My mom and me were thinking of calling our vet to get his opinion on Monday if she sleeps on the bottom again tomorrow night. We would like to avoid taking her unless we have to because we just had to take my parakeet for his toe which wound up coming off (and thank god during his appointment).
I’ve read other posts here about conures sleeping on the bottom and it being normal because they like it there unless they’re not eating and the normal behavior changes. I’m just not sure if it applies to this. I’m very on edge about her being on the bottom because my parakeet who passed slept on the bottom for a month and then died (but he was moved to a new cage when he started so we thought “hey, it’s a new cage. Maybe he just wants to be there” and would always wind up at the top in the morning). He also would act normal during the day.
Might be good to add that she has no nesting things and her and my other (male) green cheek don’t get along so they usually keep their space. She is also not DNA tested. We were just told she was female.
Pics of her attached.
So, her name is Callie and I’ve had her since 8/1/19 (August 1st) and she’ll be a year old on April 27th. Her first vet appointment was January 30th or the 31st, a week and a half after one of my parakeets died and she was healthy, along with my other birds.
My mom and I cleaned the bird cages last Saturday and that night into Sunday, she was on the bottom of her cage, sleeping but was fine the next night. It’s normal for her to jump onto the bottom and look for food if her bowl needs fresh stuff (but she usually spits out the stuff on the bottom). She was fine all
week, doing her usual jump to the bottom and running around and then going back to the top into her little tent/hut where she likes to sleep. Since we got her the tent, it’s where she loves to sleep. During the day, she’ll nap at the back of her cage on top of it while i’m in the room usually sitting on my computer. She eats when she’s hungry and drinks, what i’m assuming, when she has to (since I don’t usually see any of my birds drink water besides for the other conure). Now, at night (last night and tonight) after I turn my lamp off, she goes to the bottom of the cage to sleep and only when I go to check on her is when she climbs up the cage but then I go back to lay down and she goes back on the bottom. She has her nights where she sleeps on the bottom and is fine during the day and then is back to normal sleeping in her tent the next night. This is (from what I can remember) the only time she’s slept down there twice in a row. She’s not molting and she acts normal except for maybe napping a little bit more but I’m also always in the room and I don’t do much except for sit at my computer and they’re all pretty quiet when there’s not much going on. My mom and me were thinking of calling our vet to get his opinion on Monday if she sleeps on the bottom again tomorrow night. We would like to avoid taking her unless we have to because we just had to take my parakeet for his toe which wound up coming off (and thank god during his appointment).
I’ve read other posts here about conures sleeping on the bottom and it being normal because they like it there unless they’re not eating and the normal behavior changes. I’m just not sure if it applies to this. I’m very on edge about her being on the bottom because my parakeet who passed slept on the bottom for a month and then died (but he was moved to a new cage when he started so we thought “hey, it’s a new cage. Maybe he just wants to be there” and would always wind up at the top in the morning). He also would act normal during the day.
Might be good to add that she has no nesting things and her and my other (male) green cheek don’t get along so they usually keep their space. She is also not DNA tested. We were just told she was female.
Pics of her attached.
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