DewNutrs
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- 11/8/22
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- Pamela Horner
Hi, I am new here but I am despratly looking for a way to help my baby, Nutters von McNugget, aka Nutters. I am a fairley new bird mom only having him for a little over two years. I need to give a little bit of background info to completely explain my problem so plz bare with me. I got Nutters from a pet store, so he was fairly wild. He must have been previously owned cuz he wasnt as wild as most are that you get from the pet store. He is so sweet and very well mannered. He was the 2nd of four I had gotten over a 6 month period. In chronological order of placement it went: Sticky, Nutters, Bullet, and "R" word. At first I kept their wings clipped and not once were they truely caged, but would roost in the pen on their own at night. I spoiled them as much as uyou could spoil non tame birds. Eventually I was able to tame them enough to where when they fluttered down to the floor, they would look for me to be their ride back up. but they still did not enjoy long periods on the finger. About 6 months ago, I decided to move to a different city. I dont have a permenate home but I do spend periods of years when I find somewhere to stay. I have no other pets. Ok, the move took me a total of a week to do cuz of all the stuff I have and I had to aquire rides to do this. Also, it took about 6 trips to get all that I could get with me. To ease stress on the birds, I decided to set them up with a baby sitter until I was comfortable in the place I was going to be bring them. I wanted to make sure everything was nice and safe for them being as how they were free flying. (By this time I had allowed them to grow their wings back out and they were used to being able to fly.) As much as I hated it, I felt more comfortable confining them to just their cage (which is a fairly good sized cage, plenty big for 4 birds) being as how they were going to have to be at the baby sitters home and she did not want them flying around. Heres where it takes a very bad turn. I do not know exactly what happened cuz I was not there but this is what I was told. The birds must have been singing and wouldnt be quiet when she wanted them too. From what I understand, the cage had gotten thrown all over the room, breaking the bottem of it then thrown outside. Sticky, Bullet and "R" word were no longer with me any more and I had thought I lost Nutters also, But I recieved a phone call from a friend that had cleaned up the aftermath (The girl no where to be found unfortunately) and his old lady happen to see something moving up under the airconitiner which was very low to the floor. Low and behold there was my Nutters, terrified beyond belief hiding in the only spot he could get to. He has lost his ability to fly. I couldnt believe I for two days I mourned the loss of my babies and serched high and low for the girl. I have yet to find her. I called me a ride and immedently rushed over to get my Sweetie. When I got thereThe friend who rescued him told me that Nutters had not uttered one note the entire time. This is when I found out that the incident had happened 4 whole days before I was told!plus the 2 days they went by before the friend could get in touch with me that made 6 whole days that Nutters endured this. They told me that they didnt know jack squat about the care of birds so what they did was gather up what could be salvaged of the cage, gathered up Nutters who, despite what had happened to him, was still very happy to see someone from what they told me. they went and bought some wild bird food not knowing that parakeets eat a certain kinda seeds and set him up as best they knew how. They told me he hadnt eaten one time and hadnt said one note the entire time. all he would do is hang on the side of his cage by the beak. When he seen me he livened up a little and I slowly and carefully transported him back home. cooing and talking to him the whole way. soon as I got him home I gave him his bird feed and he immedently began to eat and it wasnt long he moved to the perch. but anytime anyone would get close to the cage he would start shaking like a leave on a tree. For about 3 weeks I couldnt get him to say one word then finally he started making this sound. I swear to God he was crying. I knew he missed his flock and I tried to be there as much as possible for him, but alas, I'm just not a bird and he needed a birdy buddy or I was gonna loose him. So I went back to the pet store and picked out Dewey, a bright yellow rascal who I thought would be good for Nutters seeing as how Nuteers is not very colorful, being more of a grey and pale yello. He was pretty much at the bottem of the pecking order in the flock, but he was still in a flock, ya know? Anyways, it took and 2 or 3 days for them to get used to each other and start the preening and cleaning and all that other cute stuff the birds do. Nutters still hasnt gotten his ability to fly back yet but he is able to kinda floating downwards a good 10 to 15 feet. I think his wing mighta gotten fractured cuz when it rains he kinda acts like it bothers him but other wise he doesnt exhibit anyu other signs of being in pain. Here is my problem. Becuz of this (I am guessing) Nutters refuses to bathe. He used to take regular baths with his flock but since he lost them he just wont do it. And becuz he wont bathe, his poop gets stuck in his back feathers and builds up in front of his butthole and stops him up to where he cant poop. I try to clean it off but he is still very scared of ppl although I have gained his trust enough to let me just barely touch him but he wont let me touch it until I'm guessing he is in so much pain he has to let me clean it off. This has happen a total of twice and I would use cooking oil to soften The poop and pull it very gently off. But I had to fight tooth and nail to do this and I do not l;ike chasin him around cuz I know he is prob in pain and also it prob scares him. Eventually he will give in but it is ONLY cuz he hurts to much to move or is exhausted. I know if I could get him to bath, then he would be able to keep his backside clean and this would not continue to happen. Right now, I have a bath in the cage but they wont have nothing to do with it. I did the whole lettuce thing the misting thing, anything I could find on the internet. Can anybody give me any advice? It breaks my heart cuz he has gone thru so much, His butthole sould be the least of his worries. Please any pointers? I have attached as good of pics as they would let me get.
