SongBird
Checking out the neighborhood
I'm very new, and I'm not certain if this is where I should be posting... So er, direct me to somewhere else if I got it wrong...
Anyway, I have had a problem with my aviary (I'm guessing thats where it came from) for about two-three years now. My aviary is a gorgeous Two sided small walk in. One side was for my green cheeked conure pair. And I would say they had about 3 1/2 - 4 feet of space between the soft and the hooked wire. Well, the female conure started to have a huge seizure after about of a year in her side of the aviary, she had food, water, it wasn't cold, and there was not a snake in sight, I didn't know what in the world was wrong with her. Of course I couldn't leave her thrashing on the floor with her eyes glazed with no apparent body control. I gently picked her up in a towel (she wasn't very tame) and to my growing panic her flipping about was getting weaker. She soon died in my hands with me heartbroken and her mate in grief. Since he was so sad, we got another mate for him. Who soon died in the same way, much to our horror. The male didn't die though, and he was so very lonely and withdrawn.
I had a sunday conure who was called Pepe, not a DNA tested male, and my mother 'urged' me to put him in with poor poblo. I did it, much to my reluctance because I now knew that something was definitely wrong about the aviary or something having to do with it. After about a month and a half of them being in there, I finally had gotten my mother to agree in pulling my boys in. A couple weeks later, Pepe fell of his perch and thrashed around on the bottom of his cage. The same way the others did. I was freaking out (Not a good way to handle situations) and picked him up to try to comfort him, gradually he came out of it and went back to normal, until a week later. He had seizures every week or two but by then we couldn't afford to take him to the vet. Six months later I came home from school to find my dear baby had died from one last seizure, with a very distraught Green cheek hovering above him...
Now, a year later from this, Seizures have taken a hold of most of my soft-bills.
Has anybody come across this? Is it a disease? Chemicals? Mice? Poison? I don't want to get anymore of the lovable feathered friends until I have gotten rid of it...
* I've had mice problems because of the seed, they come and eat and nest and poop and pee all over the place. They have also ate some of my smaller finches in the past. You think its them that cause the seizures?
Anyway, I have had a problem with my aviary (I'm guessing thats where it came from) for about two-three years now. My aviary is a gorgeous Two sided small walk in. One side was for my green cheeked conure pair. And I would say they had about 3 1/2 - 4 feet of space between the soft and the hooked wire. Well, the female conure started to have a huge seizure after about of a year in her side of the aviary, she had food, water, it wasn't cold, and there was not a snake in sight, I didn't know what in the world was wrong with her. Of course I couldn't leave her thrashing on the floor with her eyes glazed with no apparent body control. I gently picked her up in a towel (she wasn't very tame) and to my growing panic her flipping about was getting weaker. She soon died in my hands with me heartbroken and her mate in grief. Since he was so sad, we got another mate for him. Who soon died in the same way, much to our horror. The male didn't die though, and he was so very lonely and withdrawn.
I had a sunday conure who was called Pepe, not a DNA tested male, and my mother 'urged' me to put him in with poor poblo. I did it, much to my reluctance because I now knew that something was definitely wrong about the aviary or something having to do with it. After about a month and a half of them being in there, I finally had gotten my mother to agree in pulling my boys in. A couple weeks later, Pepe fell of his perch and thrashed around on the bottom of his cage. The same way the others did. I was freaking out (Not a good way to handle situations) and picked him up to try to comfort him, gradually he came out of it and went back to normal, until a week later. He had seizures every week or two but by then we couldn't afford to take him to the vet. Six months later I came home from school to find my dear baby had died from one last seizure, with a very distraught Green cheek hovering above him...
Now, a year later from this, Seizures have taken a hold of most of my soft-bills.
Has anybody come across this? Is it a disease? Chemicals? Mice? Poison? I don't want to get anymore of the lovable feathered friends until I have gotten rid of it...
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* I've had mice problems because of the seed, they come and eat and nest and poop and pee all over the place. They have also ate some of my smaller finches in the past. You think its them that cause the seizures?
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