Hello! I'm extremely new to this forum but I had a quick question for any budgie owner that may know.
[ I have an avian vet appointment set for next week on Friday (the closest date they had available), but I am concerned if this issue requires me to do a walk-in for emergency care or if it can wait until the set appointment date. ]
My budgie, Nibbler, is a 6-7 year old female budgie. I noticed she developed a fishy smell in her mouth and it doesn't seem to want to go away. It has been like this for weeks (where I initially had an appointment set prior to the current one, but a potential covid-19 exposure in the household [we had to take tests] required me to reschedule.)
She is still active, eats, and drinks just fine. She doesn't puff up, regurgitate, vomit, have any discharge around her cere, have an abnormal tail bob, or seem to have any strange growths or bulges. This all began when I fed her some string cheese off and on once or twice a week for two weeks, until I noticed her breath (and found out it was bad to give her cheese). Ever since, she hasn't eaten the cheese in weeks, but she continues to have fishy breath.
Her diet consists of Lafeber's pellet berries, Intune pellets (ground up), and some millet. She has been too scared to try much else other than bananas and tangerines.
It is the first time I dealt with this sort of smell from a budgie, so I wanted to know if anyone has any idea what I could be possibly dealing with and whether or not I should be able to wait until my appointment next week on Friday or try to push her into emergency care. Budgies can be very sneaky about their health so I wanted to get a second opinion since I tend to be overly anxious about things a lot of the time.
Any feedback is appreciated! Thank you!
[ I have an avian vet appointment set for next week on Friday (the closest date they had available), but I am concerned if this issue requires me to do a walk-in for emergency care or if it can wait until the set appointment date. ]
My budgie, Nibbler, is a 6-7 year old female budgie. I noticed she developed a fishy smell in her mouth and it doesn't seem to want to go away. It has been like this for weeks (where I initially had an appointment set prior to the current one, but a potential covid-19 exposure in the household [we had to take tests] required me to reschedule.)
She is still active, eats, and drinks just fine. She doesn't puff up, regurgitate, vomit, have any discharge around her cere, have an abnormal tail bob, or seem to have any strange growths or bulges. This all began when I fed her some string cheese off and on once or twice a week for two weeks, until I noticed her breath (and found out it was bad to give her cheese). Ever since, she hasn't eaten the cheese in weeks, but she continues to have fishy breath.
Her diet consists of Lafeber's pellet berries, Intune pellets (ground up), and some millet. She has been too scared to try much else other than bananas and tangerines.
It is the first time I dealt with this sort of smell from a budgie, so I wanted to know if anyone has any idea what I could be possibly dealing with and whether or not I should be able to wait until my appointment next week on Friday or try to push her into emergency care. Budgies can be very sneaky about their health so I wanted to get a second opinion since I tend to be overly anxious about things a lot of the time.
Any feedback is appreciated! Thank you!