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Sick Parakeet/Budgie? Losing A lot of feathers fast!

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Recently one of my budgies have started acting diffrent they start losing feathers a lot and I thought oh he’s just molting but I quickly realized maybe he wasn’t because his poop had changed colors so I tried looking for possible sicknesses and couldn’t find anything that looked like what my budgie is going through, and just recently I saw him lose all of his tail feathers and noticed a decreased amount of wing and body feathers, and I don’t know what to do right now to help him I’ve given vitamins and that didn’t work but seemed to help a little changing the color of his poop slightly to a more normal color for him and help is much appreciated
 

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Do you have pictures of/can you get pictures of

1. The poop
2. The bird
 

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Has your budgie been eating different things? They don't look particularly alarming to me. How long has it been going on like this? A close up of the droppings may help other people better understand. Could the feather loss be that your budgie is bullied by the other birds you've got?
 
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Has your budgie been eating different things? They don't look particularly alarming to me. How long has it been going on like this? A close up of the droppings may help other people better understand. Could the feather loss be that your budgie is bullied by the other birds you've got?
Same foods a couple days and the bird could be bullied but not likely because the only other bird in it’s cage is in its nest sitting on their baby’s and that’s it
 

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What's he eating apart from seed. Is he feeding the hen? Can clearly see he's lost primary flights and tail feathers. I think it's time to phone the vet. If it's something infectious the hen and chicks will need treating for sure. Make the vet aware of this.
 
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Also if you're putting vitamins in his water STOP. There's no urine with this poops so he's not drinking. Give him plain water. If he's not drinking the hen and chicks are probably dehydrated too.
 

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Also if you're putting vitamins in his water STOP. There's no urine with this poops so he's not drinking. Give him plain water. If he's not drinking the hen and chicks are probably dehydrated too.
He didn’t feed the baby’s also we give him both vitamin water and plain water should I take the vitamin water out?
 

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He didn't feed the babies, but he did feed the hen and she fed the babies. Just get rid of the vitamins and offer plain water. Vitamins should really only be given on the advice of a vet.
What else is he eating?
 

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He didn't feed the babies, but he did feed the hen and she fed the babies. Just get rid of the vitamins and offer plain water. Vitamins should really only be given on the advice of a vet.
Alright I’ll give it a try and also he didn’t seem to really feed the hen at all on very rare occasions from what it looks like, and one more thing he’s also been drinking a lot of the vitamin water
 

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Alright I’ll give it a try and also he didn’t seem to really feed the hen at all on very rare occasions from what it looks like, and one more thing he’s also been drinking a lot of the vitamin water
What's he eating?
 

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I think there may be some toxicity going on here. If he's drinking plenty but his poops are dry then something may be going on with the kidneys. Also his faeces are too pale.
GET HIM TO A VET.
I'm going to ask the staff to move this to 911.
@Ali thanks for the tag m8 ;)
 

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I think there may be some toxicity going on here. If he's drinking plenty but his poops are dry then something may be going on with the kidneys. Also his faeces are too pale.
GET HIM TO A VET.
I'm going to ask the staff to move this to 911.
@Ali thanks for the tag m8 ;)
I’m going to try to get him to a vet either today or tomorrow
 

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I think there may be some toxicity going on here. If he's drinking plenty but his poops are dry then something may be going on with the kidneys. Also his faeces are too pale.
GET HIM TO A VET.
I'm going to ask the staff to move this to 911.
@Ali thanks for the tag m8 ;)
I think he’s started to breathe a little heavy and fast, is it possible he’s scared?
 

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I think he’s started to breathe a little heavy and fast, is it possible he’s scared?
I’m going to try to get him to a vet either today or tomorrow
So yesterday I decided to get him some medicine from the bird store they said it would help him, it’s probiotics and it’s live microbial food supplements
 

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He really needs to see a vet and get a proper diagnosis and treatment. Losing feathers, strange droppings and heavy, fast breathing are signs that he is sick. Food supplements and probiotics won't help him if he's sick.
 

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He really needs to see a vet and get a proper diagnosis and treatment. Losing feathers, strange droppings and heavy, fast breathing are signs that he is sick. Food supplements and probiotics won't help him if he's sick.
The breatheing fast was just him being scared because he does get scared of me from time to time
 
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