Proper care and feeding of a budgie is the key to its health. Diseases of budgies are varied, but many of them have similar external manifestations. A sick bird is significantly different from a healthy one.

Signs of a Healthy Bird

A healthy parrot has bright, neat plumage and shiny eyes. The bird reacts vividly to surrounding events and even sings. A healthy parrot is resting on one leg.

A budgerigar - why not a beauty?

Signs of a healthy bird are:

• smooth and clean beak;
• the beak has no delaminations or cracks;
• shiny, thin and smooth horny scales on the paws;
• undertail – cleaned and free of droppings.

With proper care, budgies can live more than 15 years.

Often, bird owners are quite inattentive to their pets. They turn to veterinarians too late with a sick bird. Budgerigars should be examined periodically to determine their health.

General principles of treating parrots

When a budgie is sick, it shows apathy towards everything that happens around it. He cackles, sometimes trembles, often sleeps for a long time sitting on both legs, or leaning on a perch. A sick bird does not respond to sounds and movements and does not clean its plumage.

In some cases, if a parrot is sick, it may refuse to eat or drink. Budgerigars have very fast metabolic processes.

For any diseases and pathologies, the bird needs additional warmth. After isolating the sick individual, it can be warmed up with a lamp placed next to the cage, maintaining the optimal 27 degrees for it. Warming up is useful for almost all diseases (with the exception of mechanical damage, fractures, bleeding or heat stroke).

Warming up allows you to raise the temperature of a sick parrot, speed up metabolic processes, thereby increasing the body's resistance to the disease. This procedure should be carried out carefully, and when the bird spreads its wings to the sides, the heating should be reduced.

If a parrot is diagnosed with a bowel disorder, the simplest thing that can be done to treat it is to give the bird activated carbon or another adsorbent. The tablet should be crushed into powder and sprinkled with half of the portion on the food, and the second part should be added to the drinking bowl.

To support the general tone of the bird and restore its liver function, it is recommended to use ascorbic acid with glucose. Glucose itself is effectively used to combat gastric disorders in birds, especially those of viral origin. To do this, feed the bird with a 10% solution of the drug for 2-4 weeks. If necessary, treatment is repeated a month later.

Honey is also an excellent tonic; it is added to water for parrots (5-6 drops per 100 g). It is recommended to be used for various diseases: molting, vitamin deficiency, exhaustion, poisoning or liver disease. To improve the therapeutic effect, alternate honey with ascorbic acid and glucose.

If the parrot is sick, then the bird needs to be provided with a calm environment; it is advisable to place it in a quiet and cozy place.

Method of administering medicine to sick birds

The easiest way to deliver medicine to a parrot's body is to mix it into the food. It is only necessary to divide the daily dose of the drug into the entire daily diet. For one budgie, the norm of the grain mixture is 2 teaspoons.

A syringe (without a needle!) is a great way to get someone to take medicine.

It is recommended to mix medications in the morning. At this time, the bird manages to get hungry during the night and pecks the grain with the necessary medicine. To ensure even distribution, the grain can be slightly moistened (so that the crushed tablet powder sticks to it). Water-soluble types of drugs are mixed into drinking water. This method of “delivery” of drugs will be simpler.

In especially severe cases, when the parrot is sick and refuses to drink or eat, you can forcefully give the medicine.

For these purposes, take the medicine into a syringe without a needle and pour it into the mouth (in the right corner of the throat). The medicine should be given in small portions so that the bird does not choke. The parrot is taken in one hand and the opening of its beak is fixed with two fingers. Medicine is dripped into the mouth, swallowing being controlled by the movement of the tongue. When a parrot is sick, in a clinical setting, the birds can be given medications by probe or intramuscular injection. Only a veterinarian can perform such procedures.

General signs of parrot disease

The most important indicators of the health of budgies are their behavior and appearance. The most characteristic manifestations of a disease or poor health of a bird include the following:

• the bird sleeps all the time, does not monitor or care for its plumage, does not play or actively move;
• The exhaustion of a parrot is determined by its protruding keel. If the bird is very exhausted, it is provided with additional warmth before the veterinarian's visit;
• the parrot is breathing heavily or sniffling, although outwardly it looks almost healthy. Such symptoms may indicate chronic diseases. This bird needs a thorough examination;
• the bird experiences mucus discharge from the nasal passages of its beak and frequent sneezing;
• the parrot sits on a perch, and its tail is lowered perpendicular to the floor. This symptom may indicate problems with the lungs;
• The bird drinks a lot. This may indicate problems with digestion or kidneys;
• The parrot has growths on its legs. The joints become inflamed, and redness and sores may also occur. Such signs have bacterial infections.

Symptoms of a serious illness in budgies may appear within a day.

Some symptoms of disorders of the internal organs of a parrot

When examining birds, pay attention to the undertail, eyes, beak and legs, as well as the texture of the droppings. It should be remembered that diarrhea in parrots is a consequence of the disease, and not the disease itself. Such a disorder may indicate inflammatory processes in the intestines or other organs of the poultry’s gastrointestinal tract.

The budgerigar suffers from diseases of internal organs quite hard. Only in cases where there is firm confidence that the parrot is not sick, and the presence of diarrhea is caused by an incorrect diet, can you try to treat the parrots yourself.

In such cases, the bird recovers after several days of taking activated carbon. Prolonged diarrhea may be accompanied by drowsiness and lethargy of the bird. When a budgie is sick, it usually does not have a normal appetite. In such cases, treatment can only be carried out by a specialist.

Identification of diseases by droppings

Normal budgerigar droppings should be in a worm-shaped spiral, most often green-brown in color interspersed with white. When feeding a bird more greens or vegetables, it may become greener in color, but its shape does not change. After eating carrots or beets, it can be tinted accordingly.

A parrot's health largely depends on its food.

If the bird's droppings are liquid, the color has changed and does not recover, then it is very possible that the parrot is sick, and this is a sign of a serious illness. If there is undigested grain in the droppings, this may be a sign of inflammation of the goiter or an infectious process in the body. If the bird still refuses to eat with such symptoms of the disease, this may indicate that the parrot is suffering from a fungal disease.

If there is no white matter in the litter and there is a lot of clear liquid in it, then this may be a symptom of problems with the nervous system or inflammation of the nerves. Such parrots often drink, but still the moisture is not retained in the body, and the bird loses a lot of fluid.

An excessive amount of liquid in the droppings may also be evidence of disturbances in the microflora. Probiotics are used to restore it. Birds are treated with the following drugs: Lactobifadol (or Linex) and Vetom.

If blood is found in the droppings, then such a bird cannot be heated with a lamp. She is prescribed 1 drop of Vikasol 2 times a day, a weak infusion of plantain or nettle tea.

Description of some diseases in budgies

Parrot diseases have different etiologies and require adequate treatment.

Food poisoning

A poisoned bird develops severe thirst, diarrhea, drooping wings and convulsions. In case of poisoning, the parrot is first given a sorbent to reduce the level of toxins: Activated carbon, Smecta, Enterodes, Enterosgel, Polyphepam, Filtrum. In case of acute intoxication, the sorbent is given 3 times a day, in especially severe cases - every 2 hours.

Activated carbon should not be given for more than 3 days; if the symptoms do not go away, then the cause of the disease is much deeper. An hour later, other drugs are administered to the bird after the adsorbent. In case of poisoning, it is recommended to warm the bird with a lamp (3-6 hours a day). You can add a few drops of lemon juice to the drinker.

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

If a parrot is sick, a decoction of chamomile is used for its treatment for a week instead of water.

Depending on the symptoms, the bird is prescribed for 2 weeks:

• tsamax - half a teaspoon per daily portion of food;
• Karsil - 1 tablet in a feeder with grain mixture. It is given for liver diseases and poisoning;
• vitasol - eight drops of this vitamin complex are dissolved in 100 ml of water;
• vetom - the drug is active against a wide range of harmful microorganisms;
• cerukal - eliminates nausea and vomiting, accelerates digestion and bowel movements.

Linex, Lactobifadol and Vetom are also prescribed to sick birds for gastrointestinal microflora disorders.

Cold

A parrot with a cold trembles, sneezes often (sometimes discharge appears from the beak). The bird is inactive, ruffled, sleeps a lot. She very often scratches her eyes or wax, and may refuse to eat or drink. The mucous membrane on the nose has an inflamed red color. The bird breathes heavily (the tail moves in time with its breathing), and often swallows.

Sometimes it can regurgitate wet grains from its beak due to inflamed mucous membranes. Such a parrot should be heated with a lamp. Chamomile infusion is added to the drinking bowl, as well as a drop of honey and lemon.

In complex cases of the disease, treatment with inhalation of eucalyptus oil or menthol, as well as “Zvezdochka” is recommended. The inhaler is placed next to the cage and covered with a loose cloth. Such procedures should be done for 20 minutes 2 times a day for a week. If during inhalation the bird breathes heavily, opens its wings wide and closes its eyes, you should reduce the procedure time and slightly open the draped fabric.

Avitaminosis

When budgies are fed monotonous food that is poor in vitamins, they often suffer from vitamin deficiency. The bird's eyelids and mucous membranes of the eyes become swollen and red. If a parrot gets sick, it will show general weakness, its limbs may tremble violently, and the bird may throw its head back.

Chicks especially often suffer from a lack of vitamins; their feathers become ruffled and become dull. To combat the disease, the quality of feed is improved and vitamins (Vitasol) are added to the diet.

Coccidosis

Poor care and sloppy maintenance can cause coccidosis in budgies. A sick bird loses weight, looks depressed, its feathers are ruffled, it has poor appetite and severe thirst. Symptoms are complicated by diarrhea with blood and vomiting. The bird may die from dehydration and exhaustion.

Having trouble making a diagnosis? The vet will help.

Treatment is initially carried out with eimerostats, which suppress the life of eimeria - the protozoa that provoke coccidosis. For these purposes, Amprolium is prescribed to sick birds. It can also be used to prevent this disease in parrots (5 g of tablets crushed into powder are added to 1 kg of grain mixture). The next stage of treatment is carried out using Baycox and Madicox.

Salmonellosis

Quite often this disease occurs in budgies. Its causative agent is Salmonella (rod-shaped bacteria). Birds can become infected through drinking water, feed, or the secretions of sick birds. An inadequate and monotonous diet can activate the pathogenic process and lead to an exacerbation of the disease.

If a parrot gets sick with salmonellosis, the disease progresses quite rapidly. In this case, he may die due to dehydration due to severe diarrhea.

The short incubation period of the disease (3-4 days) manifests itself in lethargy and depression of the bird. She has a fever and intestinal upset. In the acute course of the disease, blueness of the paws and beak is noted, which may indicate sepsis. The droppings are liquid and have an orange-green color interspersed with blood. The chronic form provokes the development of yellowness of the mucous membranes in birds. A sick bird experiences paralysis of its legs and wings and dies.

Joint inflammation (arthritis)

Arthritis can be caused by excess weight or excessive strain on the bird's limbs due to inappropriate perch size. In sick parrots, swelling of the joints on the paws is noted. Treatment of overweight birds is carried out using a fasting diet. The perch needs to be wrapped in fabric so that the fingers are placed almost horizontally.

Ulcers on the paws

An incorrectly selected perch size, lack of exercise, and a lack of vitamin A can cause calluses, sores, and ulcers to form on the paws of parrots. At the same time, the bird often raises its paw, pulls it with its beak and gnaws. To relieve swelling, it is recommended to make soda lotions or baths. This procedure softens the tissue and removes purulent formations.

A varied diet, good living conditions and adequate drug therapy will help overcome diseases in budgies. A grateful bird will delight you for a long time with its cheerful singing.

All animals, including parrots, are susceptible to poisoning. There are substances that are not dangerous to humans, but are harmful to feathered friends. At home, there are quite a few possibilities for a parrot to become poisoned.

Although many people don’t even think about it. If you still encounter a problem when your parrot is poisoned, the basic information provided in this article will tell you what to do in this situation.

Symptoms of parrot poisoning

Poultry poisoning can occur for various reasons. You can suspect that a budgie has been poisoned in the following cases:

• the signs appeared suddenly;
• symptoms after eating new food;
• a parrot staying in an uninhabited area;
• when new plants appear;
• When treating birds with medications, insect repellents should be used carefully.

If you give a parrot table salt in its pure form, low-quality food that can harbor grain moths, then we can conclude that the parrot was poisoned by these very products.

When intoxicated, the parrot exhibits the following signs:

• strong thirst;
• convulsions;
• diarrhea;
• wings down.

In addition to poisoning by poor food, stale water and other food products, there are a number of possible poisonings at home. In this case, it is necessary to keep medicines, household chemicals, and cosmetics out of reach of the parrot. The reason is the bird’s curiosity and the ability to taste everything.

The evaporation of acetone, paint, and varnish, which have a pungent odor, is harmful to the parrot. All kinds of sprays, powders against mice and cockroaches can also be dangerous. If symptoms of poisoning appear, it is necessary to take the cage with the pet to a well-ventilated, clean room.

General signs of body intoxication:

• ruffled parrot;
• ruffled feathers;
• weakness;
• refusal to eat.

When the digestive system is damaged, symptoms specific to poisoning appear:

• vomit;
• nausea;
• liquid droppings with an unusual shade (yellow, green, black, red);
• coordination is impaired (the parrot is unable to take off and falls to the side);
• convulsions;
• head and wings tremble;
• the bird makes circular movements with its head, throws it back;
• the parrot is paralyzed (the pet is conscious, but cannot move, semi-paralysis of the wings and legs is possible);
• comatose state (immobility, eyes half closed, slow breathing and heartbeat).

Parrot poisoned: first aid

Emergency care when a parrot is poisoned is carried out by administering the drug in liquid form using a pipette or syringe. It is necessary to give the bird an adsorbent.

It can be:

• Activated carbon;
• polyphepane;
• enterosgel;

After the adsorbent, other drugs should be administered, as there may be no effect.

A decoction of flax seed and Glauber's salt are given as a laxative. If vomiting occurs, you should take 1 drop of Cerucala.

When there are disturbances in the liver (litter changes) you need to give it to your pet 1 tablet of Karsil per day. The tablet is also added to the food for 30 days after intoxication.

Treatment depending on the cause of parrot poisoning

The most common factors of poultry intoxication are treated based on the toxic substances that caused the poisoning.

When intoxication is acute, you should immediately take your pet to the clinic for examination.

Treatment is carried out in a number of ways:

• detoxification is necessary;
• support liver function;
• support the life of the bird against the general background.

Self-medication in this situation is appropriate if the reason why the parrot was poisoned is found.

At home, a bird can be poisoned by such means, and treatment is carried out according to them.

Alcoholic drinks

Coordination will be impaired and vomiting will occur. In severe cases it can lead to death. Treatment requires a comprehensive treatment.

Cigarette tobacco, nicotine

By pecking on cigarette butts, you may develop:

• convulsions;
• the parrot is paralyzed;
• coma sets in;
• death.

A comprehensive treatment will be required. A fresh air flow should be provided to the birds. Apply vitamin C to your head.

Salt

Poisoning will occur if the feed contains more than 0.7% salt. Intoxication is mainly chronic, although it can be fatal.

In a parrot:

• muscles tremble;
• coordination is impaired;
• thirst increases.

Treatment consists of drinking plenty of water.

Lead

• bloody diarrhea;
• paralysis;
• convulsions;
• blindness.

Zinc

A pet can become poisoned by biting galvanized wire if food is stored in galvanized containers. The symptoms and treatment are identical for lead intoxication.

Arsenic

This substance is present in pesticides that end up in food.

Signs of a parrot:

• pupils dilated;
• thirst;
• weakness;
• I have a stomachache.

Antidotes are used for treatment. Magnesium oxide and oxide sulfate are diluted in water. The resulting solutions must be mixed in equal proportions. Apply 1-3 drops every 15 minutes.

Carbamate

This substance is found in herbicides and insect repellents. If a parrot is poisoned by carbamate, it will experience:

• excitement;
• severe oppression;
• rapid breathing;
• saliva flows;
• pupils constrict;
• diarrhea;
• paralysis;
• convulsions.

Treatment is carried out with an antidote. Atropine is dripped onto the head up to 3 times a day.

Preparations containing mercury used to treat seeds

All symptoms develop, body temperature also drops, and breathing becomes difficult. The treatment uses the antidote unithiol, which is dripped drop by drop every 12 hours for 2 days.

Teflon

When Teflon-coated cookware heats up too much, toxic gases evaporate. Can a parrot die if it is in the kitchen? Inhaling vapors can kill the bird. If the parrot has inhaled the vapors, it should be taken out into fresh air.

Hexaclofene

This substance is contained in laundry soap and deodorants. By eating soap or inhaling the spray, the bird may lose its vision for a while. You will need to solder and feed your pet yourself.

Indoor flowers, plants

The parrot got poisoned if it ate the following plants:

• asparagus;
• azalea;
• spurge;
• ivy;
• fern;
• hyacinth;
• Dieffenbachia;
• snowdrop.

In this case, treatment is symptomatic.

During poisoning, if the parrot refuses to eat. If a bird does not take food for more than 6 hours, it can end negatively. In this case, you should feed yourself.

Should be given:

• liquid jelly;
• ground cereals (rice, millet, buckwheat) or cooked in water.

A parrot should eat 10 milliliters per day. If the parrot is weak, especially with lead poisoning, you need the pet to be in a room where it is more than 30 degrees.

As a preventative measure, the cage should be disinfected.

Used:

• carbonated soda, adding it to boiling water. Treat the cage, drinking bowls, and perches;
• disinfected with dichlorvos in aerosols;
• boric lime.

Birds should also be treated 2 times every 15 days.

Video: parrot poisoning - symptoms

In order for a parrot to feel good, it must always have access to mineral components. Food does not contain all the necessary substances, because the need for mineral salts, for example, can increase 3 times during molting! What can we offer a parrot?

Sand for a parrot

The digestive system of parrots is designed in such a way that the body is not able to digest food on its own, and small pebbles and sand are needed for normal functioning. Their task is to mechanically grind food in the muscular part of the stomach. Result: food is crushed and better broken down by enzymes.

If your parrot does not have sand in its cage, its digestive system will be disrupted and you will find undigested grains in the droppings.

The container with sand must be placed in the cage so that the bird cannot soil it with droppings.

Chalk for parrot

Chalk consists of 37% calcium, which means it strengthens bones, and during nesting it also forms egg shells.

Chalk is given both ground (added to sand) and in the form of a briquette (attached to the cage lattice).

Never give your feathered friend construction chalk or chalk for rodents: the first contains harmful impurities, and the second contains salt. Both are poison for birds.

Sepia for parrot

Sepia is a “product” of cuttlefish shell containing approximately 37% calcium. It is perfectly absorbed by the bird's body.

Eggshells for parrots

Bone meal for parrots

The bird “extracts” phosphorus and calcium from it. Bone meal is added to sand or wet food. It is especially useful to give flour during molting, because it provides the body with salts that are essential for feather formation.

Glycerophosphate and calcium gluconate for parrot

1 tablet of calcium gluconate contains 0.5 grams of this substance, and calcium glycerophosphate contains an additional 88% of organic phosphorus.

You can buy these drugs in regular pharmacies. A 0.5 gram tablet is enough to provide the daily requirement of phosphorus and calcium for a pair of budgerigars.

The drugs are crushed into powder and offered to pets every other day. The powder is added to the feed mixture or sand.

If the bird is severely emaciated, molts, is feeding chicks, or suffers from rickets, the “dispensing rate” is increased to 1 tablet per day.

Charcoal for parrot

Coal is ground to a powder and given along with eggshells or sand.

Charcoal absorbs heavy metal salts, poisons and harmful gases, and then removes them from the body.

Vitamins for parrots

In autumn and winter, parrots are in dire need of vitamins, because there are almost no vegetables, fruits and herbs. Vitamins are also needed when the bird is molting or sick.

There are a number of rules for choosing vitamins:

• Choose only trusted manufacturers, avoid dubious brands.
• Immediately check the integrity of the packaging and expiration date.
• Ask the seller all your questions.
• Do not get carried away with vitamins too much: follow the instructions regarding dosage and course duration.
• An open bottle is usually stored for a maximum of 1 month, and then replaced with a new one.

Honey or lemon juice can be a vitamin supplement.

2 - 3 drops of lemon juice can be added to the drinker. It is a valuable source of carbohydrates, protein, organic acids, dietary fiber, vitamins C, E, PP, group B, as well as minerals: calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, zinc, copper, phosphorus, iron, manganese, boron, fluorine, sulfur , molybdenum, chlorine. Not every juice can “boast” of such richness! Lemon juice is involved in redox processes and strengthens even the smallest blood vessels.

Honey is also added to the drinker (3 - 5 drops per 100 ml). It is an excellent source of vitamins and is also a laxative that can help with intestinal blockages.

Even just loud noise can lead to a decrease in the animal's immunity.

How to treat diarrhea

You need to know that diarrhea requires IMMEDIATE treatment. In a parrot, all processes in the body go through very quickly, so the clock literally counts.

1. If the pet does not refuse food, sprinkle the food with karsil, rubbing half a tablet of the medicine.
2. For liquid green droppings, use activated carbon at first, grinding the tablet and adding it to boiled rice.
3. Drink chamomile decoction.
4. Green droppings in a budgerigar can be stopped by adding the immunomodulator Gamavit to the treatment. It is poured into the drinking bowl at the rate of 0.5 ml per 50 g of clean water. Treat this way for a week.
5. Sometimes they use Vetom 1.1. This is an immunomodulating drug with Bacillus subtilis microorganisms to improve digestion and restore intestinal microflora. It is added to the water at the tip of a knife.
6. The food is also sprinkled with Linex (one capsule).

During treatment, move the cage with your feathered friend to a quiet, calm place.

Diarrhea due to stress or eating stale fruit should stop after such treatment. If troubles last five days or more, this indicates a more serious problem.

If, unfortunately, treatment does not bring results, contact your veterinarian immediately. This may indicate a serious illness in the pet.

Diseases and treatment of budgies and Karella parrots are the same. Liquid green droppings in both cases are caused by similar reasons.

They are given in parallel with the above drugs Smecta, Enterosgel. The doctor will probably prescribe antibiotics (Baytril) and immunomodulatory drugs. But this treatment is only after examination by a veterinarian.

Liquid droppings

What to do if your budgerigar has liquid droppings?

1. Wash the area around the cloaca, clean the feathers from any remaining excrement, as they are a breeding ground for infection.
2. Rinse the bird's eyes and cloaca with chamomile decoction. Also pour this broth into the drinking bowl, remembering to change it every two hours.
3. Disinfect the cage.
4. Offer your parrot rice boiled in water, which has an astringent effect for digestive problems.
5. The liquid green droppings should stop. If this does not happen, go to the doctor.
6. During illness, the bird freezes and sits ruffled. Install an infrared lamp above her home, blocking off with a piece of fabric a place where she could hide if desired. But this is done only if there are no traces of blood in the litter.

The temperature in the room with the sick bird is maintained at +25 degrees, humidity 65%. If there is no special lamp, then you can use a regular 60 W incandescent lamp, which generates heat!

Causes of diarrhea in parrots

Due to external or internal irritants, the parrot's intestinal walls begin to contract faster, pushing out not only undigested pieces of food, but also the liquid contents of the stomach.

What to do if your parrot has diarrhea? Keep it clean! More often the cause is poor quality food, rot, dirt on fruit, mold in nuts and seeds. Rotten water in the drinking bowl also leads to similar troubles. Even dirt in the apartment is harmful.

Sometimes such symptoms occur after spraying aerosols near the cage. The bird’s body responds to such moments with intestinal upset.

Liquid droppings in a budgie are a sign of diarrhea or polyuria. Diarrhea is, in fact, diarrhea, and polyuria is an increase in the amount of urine in the bird’s excrement. Treatment for these phenomena varies.

After examining your pet's stool, determine whether it retains its shape and is surrounded by watery discharge or whether the feces look like a liquid mass. In the first case it is polyuria. In the second - diarrhea.

If your budgie has diarrhea:

With diarrhea, a budgie sits on a perch or even on the floor of the cage, ruffling its feathers and ruffling its feathers. There are dried feathers and dried excrement around the cloaca. The bird refuses to eat, its eyes lose their shine. There is a sleepy state.

Any unusual behavior of the bird is an indicator of ill health. Watch carefully those you have tamed. At the first symptoms, consult a doctor.

The food must be of high quality!

Diarrhea in a parrot can be caused by a change in food. It happens that you get a bad batch of food. Change the food, wash the feeder, clean the cage. Try to purchase mixtures from trusted suppliers. The feed must contain millet.

The cause of diarrhea in parrots is poor hygiene and infrequent cleaning of the cage. At the first symptoms of liquid green diarrhea in a bird, disinfect her home.

Stale water is a common cause of illness in parrots. Wash the drinking bowl thoroughly and treat with disinfectants. Try to give not tap water, but baby water from store-bought bottles.

If your parrot has loose stools, it probably ate stale fruit. During treatment remove greens and juicy fruits from your diet so as not to further irritate the delicate stomach.

When you let a parrot fly around the room, it can peck indoor plants, which can be poisonous to it. Inspect the plants and make sure that the mischief maker has not eaten food that is harmful to him. Remove dangerous plants!

The placement of the cage can also cause your parrot to have loose stools. Noisy places and places where children play are excluded for the bird. She should live in a calm, quiet room.

Is your pet getting enough light? Birds love the sun and clean air. Therefore, the cage is placed in a bright, ventilated room, but so that it does not receive direct sunlight. It is sometimes necessary to place the cage outside so that the bird produces vitamin D, the lack of which also has a detrimental effect on the parrot’s digestion.

Green droppings in budgerigars often occur when lack of calcium. To prevent this, hang a block of chalk or sepia in the cage. This is also necessary for grinding down the beak, which grows quickly in parrots.

Liquid green droppings may be caused by antibiotic treatment for another disease. Taking such drugs kills both pathogenic organisms and beneficial microflora.

Diarrhea in a parrot is caused by inflammation of the goiter. This is an extension of the esophagus on the right side of the chest where food initially enters.

And if this organ is unhealthy, swallowing reflexes do not work correctly, stagnation and infection occur. The spoiled pieces of food then enter the stomach, causing upset. Food turns into a source of microbial development. This leads to irreversible consequences.

Why is diarrhea dangerous in parrots?

First of all, diarrhea is dangerous due to dehydration of the bird’s body. This leads to exhaustion, decreased body weight, and the bird loses strength. Blood thickening also occurs, circulation is impaired, which leads to a lack of oxygen. The animal dies quickly, within a few days and sometimes hours.

With frequent bowel movements, the bird's cloaca stretches, falls out, and dries out. There is itching, discomfort and pain in this place.

In this case, the bird often pecks at the dried areas, trying to relieve its discomfort. It damages blood vessels, causing bleeding. Which makes the situation worse.

During treatment, do not leave your feathered friend alone for a long time. He must be sure that his owner loves him and takes care of him. Delicious vitamins and positive emotions will speed up recovery.

Parrot has diarrhea - what to do?

Diarrhea in a parrot is a disease that is very easy to notice and, if treatment is started on time, you can save your pet. Don't underestimate your bird's stomach upset, as there can be many causes, some minor and some serious.

Frivolous reasons are when you notice a lot of water in the parrot's droppings, and before that the bird ate succulent food and subsequently, the droppings again became normal and do not cause suspicion. Also, if you give your parrot boiled water to drink, the bird can absorb much more of it than purified or bottled water.

The presence of excess water in the droppings is not diarrhea as long as what should be the thick part remains tightly formed.

There are two types of diarrhea in parrots: polyuria and diarrhea. Polyuria is an increase in the amount of urine in the litter. Diarrhea is an increase in fluid in the feces themselves.

Polyuria is a temporary phenomenon that can be caused by a change in environment - stress, changes in nutrition (excess of some component), diet, egg laying, etc.

With diarrhea, the abdomen and the area around the cloaca become contaminated with droppings, which stick and dry to both the feathers and the skin. The droppings themselves give off an unpleasant odor and may contain blood, mucus and bubbles.

The bird sits on a perch, but more and more often sinks to the bottom of the cage, the body position is tense, bent, tufted, the bird closes its eyes, the state is similar to sleepy, does not respond to external stimuli, apathetic and lethargic, vomiting appears, refuses to eat, feathers in liquid droppings and dirty.

Any atypical behavior of your parrot should alert you; do not delay treatment; the fact that you provide first aid to the bird and support it with vitamin preparations can give you more time to find a specialist and obtain the necessary tests.

Possible causes of diarrhea

In order to know how to act correctly in your situation, you should find out the cause of your parrot's loose stools.

Most often this is:

• a sudden change in feed or a batch of grain mixture was found to be of poor quality. Actions: carefully inspect the feeder and grain packaging, buy proven and high-quality food without additives. Millet must be present in the feed;
• violation of cell hygiene. Actions: carry out complete disinfection of all cages, equipment and accessories with which the parrot came into contact;
• stale, poor quality water. Replace water with baby bottled water. Also, if you provide high-quality water, and the bird drinks it moderately, and there is always a lot of water in the stool, this may be one of the signs of kidney failure.

When your parrot has abnormal thirst, this may be a sign of vitamin A deficiency;

What to do: in addition to urgently disinfecting the cage and its contents, tidy up the bird: wash the area around the cloaca with a warm chamomile solution, clean the feathers from adhering dirt. If the parrot eats, sprinkle the food with karsil (after grinding half a tablet), boil the rice in water.

The chamomile solution in the drinker needs to be changed to fresh every 2 hours!

If the bird is ruffled, install an infrared lamp above the cage, having previously created a secluded corner with a cape where the parrot could move.

Warming up is only possible if there is no blood in the stool!

Contact an ornithologist to determine the diagnosis and take tests, take photographs of the conditions in which the bird lives and what its droppings look like.

If you do not have the opportunity to contact a specialist, write to the forums, describing in detail the bird’s lifestyle, indicating its age and feeding pattern. Attach photos of your pet, cage, litter.

If after taking the measures there is no improvement in your parrot’s health, immediately contact a specialist. The lack of results after providing first aid to a parrot may indicate a very serious illness in the bird.

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Comments (90)

• oksana

  When my parrot sits, ruffled, his head is lowered a little and the cloaca is dirty, but he eats, bathes and drinks. What to do?

• Natalia

  We bought a parrot 2 days ago. The parrot still eats and drinks little, but today he was diarrhea. The discharge is greenish, what should I do?

• Lyudmila

  Hello, my parrot’s cloaca recently became dirty (everything is sticky), he eats and drinks. What to do? And what could be the reasons?

• Alexandra

  Good afternoon The parrot (girl, 3 years old) must lay an egg (the tummy is very swollen and the shape of the egg can be felt). The egg laying last time was very difficult and surgery was performed. Now the bird has yellow liquid droppings sticking to its feathers. The bird has become ruffled and a bunch of feathers have fallen out since yesterday (yesterday I cleaned and washed the entire cage). Tell me what to do? I give coal 2 rubles a day. Started yesterday. No improvement(((

• Ruslan

  Good afternoon. My budgie is having problems. sings very little and remains silent most of the day. sleeps a lot. green, loose stool. Today I started going down to the bottom of the cage and sleeping there. also slightly stooped and mostly disheveled. but he eats normally and drinks too. takes care of feathers. became bolder and more aggressive. I started biting my fingers sometimes until they bled. what is the reason for this behavior?

• Natalya L.

  Hello. My lovebird is in his third month, we have been with us for 2 weeks and during this time he has polyuria all the time, and if at first I thought it was from lettuce leaves..carrots..protein... now I only give him dry food without additives and oatmeal. In this case, the droppings are green with white splashes of greenish liquid, sometimes these are just drops of transparent green liquid. What to do?

• Tanya

  Hello, the parrot had diarrhea. He doesn’t eat, he’s lying on the floor, weak, what should I do?

• Olga

  Hello! My budgie, a 3-year-old girl, is not feeling well. Today is the 5th day. This is expressed in this way: for the first 3 days of the disease, she was aggressive and ran around the cage for kilometers, lay down in the feeder and scooped up food with her feet, attacked the food like she was hungry and ran again, and now she sits constantly shaggy and sleeps with her nose buried in her wing , instead of poop, water with white specks. Until today, I ate actively, one might even say I pounced on food as if I was very hungry. Food -2 teaspoons + oats. This unhealthy appetite lasted 4 days until today. Today he mostly sleeps, doesn’t react to anything, and doesn’t eat well. Every morning I wash the cage, wash the feeders, add fresh FIORI food in a vacuum (white packaging), RIO minerals, washed, certified KESHA oats.
  She used to always be cheerful and melodious, but now my soul aches for her.
  P.S. We have a problem with ornithologist doctors.
  HELP ME PLEASE!

• Lena

  Hello. Our girl, Wavy, has had litter problems since the very first day we bought her. We've had it for a year now, but there's been almost no change.
  Her droppings are always runny and sometimes it’s almost just water pouring out, sometimes white droppings. He drinks a lot of water. Sometimes he plays and runs around the whole apartment, sometimes he sleeps a lot and cuddles up. We showed it to the doctors at first, but they didn’t tell us anything specific. Maybe you can help us.

  • inuit

    • Lena

      Thank you very much. We took tests, but they didn’t tell us anything specific; they even did an x-ray on her.
      We give filtered water, but my husband sometimes pours it from the tap, we make sure to change it every day. Food- ——, sometimes we give —-.
      Grass - a couple of times a week - carrot tops, once a month - an apple. Sand with minerals is constantly poured and a mineral stone is attached to the cage.
      We have two of them. They live freely. The second one has no problems.

    • Lena

      Food - Prestige, sometimes we give Trill.

• inuit

  Hello, the prestige food that you fed the birds is excellent, there is no need to buy grain mixtures with all sorts of additives. I haven’t yet heard that they are beneficial, at best there is no benefit, but at worst it’s hypervitaminosis. Bay leaf, eucalyptus leaf... in dry leaves, the essential oils of these plants are simply concentrated, why do they need them in a wave? I have not heard of wild parrots in Australia eating eucalyptus leaves. These are not koalas. The wavy ones gnaw the bark of this tree, yes, but the leaves... especially since our birds, artificially bred in an unknown generation, do not know how they will react to such an additive. Again, honey - if you want to pamper the bird, just add a small drop of honey to the water or pour a weak solution of chamomile into the drinking bowl. And only bottled water and preferably children's or home filtered water will do. All these special waters with added iodine are dangerous. If the doctor makes a diagnosis related to iodine deficiency, then the bird is prescribed a special course of treatment; in other cases, if there is an excess of iodine, the bird will begin to develop serious illnesses and tumors. Still, treat your parrots to vegetables and fruits every day, attach lettuce leaves and young branches of fruit trees. Gnawing and scattering away is a feeding style of the hornbills))

• Lily

  Hello! help me please! My parrot has a problem with droppings: it is sometimes green with a lot of liquid, sometimes it is black. The parrot has almost pulled out all the feathers near its butt, it itches, is weak and shaking, sleepy. He doesn't eat much, he drinks water. I changed his food, bought VAKA, and before he ate RIO, but he also had green discharge when he pooped. I poured VAKA food into his water at the same time and poured some water into his water. Is it possible that this effect happened because of the Vetom or because of the change in food? Thank you in advance

• Marina

  Hello!!! Yesterday we bought a budgie, yesterday we fed it, it sings, they gave us boiled water so that they wouldn’t see him drinking, today I see that the parrot’s (butt) is all dirty??? He sings and surprisingly even makes contact (when you put your hand in the cage he sits down) the seller said that he is a month and a half old boy, the children named Kesha, what should I do, please help!!!

• Darina

  Good evening. My daddy sleeps with water a little, so work.

• Darina

  Great thank you!!!

• Olesya

  Hello.
  A month ago we bought 2 budgies, a 1.5 month old girl (in the store) and a 2.5 month old boy (from the breeder). Today the boy is active, makes contact, there are no problems. But the girl is a cause for concern; from the very beginning she was quiet, she is not particularly active, she eats food well, but has no interest in vegetables and fruits. Today I noticed that there are feathers plucked around the cloaca, not much, but there are some. The litter is a bit runny, it was runny from the very beginning, they said it could be caused by stress (change of place, cage, food)… but a month has passed, nothing has changed and the bird is no better ((
  Cage 40*60*30, filtered water (changed every day), min. pebble, RIO food, also given Millet on a branch from Rio.

• Ksenia

  Hello! The budgerigar has a lot of water in its droppings, but its feathers are clean. The droppings are dark green. Drinks in moderation. He sits with a ruffled head and lowered his head, lethargic. The wings are shaking. I give Karsil (1/4 tablet in the feeder), I gave her chamomile to drink. He eats “Vaka”, I don’t give him fruit (I read that it’s forbidden if there is such a litter).
  At the beginning of September, he had a hip fracture and was taken to the ornithological clinic 5 times because he took off the splints and had to re-apply them. For a week or 10 days (I don’t remember exactly) they gave me Movasin, calcium gluconate, Karsil - everything that the doctor prescribed. The paw has not healed properly and he is limping. After this treatment, the litter became different, and the bird’s mood changed. I thought it was stress + the effects of medications, but now I don’t know how to help. I don’t want to take him to the doctors again, especially since it’s very far away. What to do with him?

• Ksenia

  Thanks for the advice. I sat her under a lamp and my appetite is normal. There is chalk, there is also a mineral mixture. Why could this be? Couldn't he have become infected with something at the clinic?

• Anastasia

  Hello. I have a 4 month old female budgerigar. Manual, so it usually stays outside the cage all day. He flies there to eat during the day and at night. Rio food, mineral stone, sometimes I give carrots but he doesn’t eat them much. Active, eats and drinks well, friendly.
  There has been food in the litter for several days now. Then I only went with grains. We changed food from Rio to Cheerful Parrot. The situation has improved, sometimes the droppings are good, but they are still runny and light brown in color and sometimes contain water. The parrot's mood and behavior did not change, she was still active with a good appetite.

• Anna

  Hello, help me with the problem. The parrot began to have diarrhea, we contacted a veterinarian (there is no bird specialist in the city) and recommended an antibiotic. The diarrhea has stopped, but the parrot has obvious itching all over its body. He tore his belly, under the wings, with his beak. We bought anti-mite spray and powder. But nothing helps. The bird is lethargic, has lost a lot of weight, hardly eats or drinks...

• Rashida

  Hello. Our problem is this: our budgerigar has stopped eating and drinking, although he used to drink little. Diarrhea green-white and liquid, does not sing, voice like a chicken. Zero activity lasts 2 days

• Alisa333

  Hello, please help us. 5 days ago we bought a female Corella parrot. The breeder told her 2 months. We feed with sprouted grain, steamed buckwheat, and eggs. The bird immediately had very thin green and white droppings, we were not worried, deciding that it was due to stress. On the 3rd day the litter was both black and brown, but now it has turned yellow-orange. All this time and now, the droppings are very liquid. The bird behaves actively and eats well. What kind of problem could this be?

• inuit

  Hello, was the bird clean under its tail on the day of purchase?
  What did you feed your parrot before and what food did you start feeding it? What kind of water do you drink?
  The color of the droppings indicates a liver problem. But you won’t know the specific reason until you submit the litter for analysis. Now you can buy Karsil and add it to your daily food intake. The composition of this tablet is grass, so it can be given for a long time. If the liver disease is not infectious, then Karsil should help (course of treatment is 1 month, 1-2 tablets per day, depending on the severity of the situation, start with one for now), but if it is an infection or some other abnormality, then absolutely other medicines. For analysis, place cling film on the bottom of the cage at night, and in the morning collect the droppings in a syringe, this will be easier and more hygienic.

• Alisa333

  Thanks for the answer. The bird's tail was clean on the day of purchase. The breeder said that he fed him steamed buckwheat and sprouted millet grains. Sometimes a boiled egg. We did not deviate from this diet. We give water from the tap, good water, with 50pH of impurities. (ideal for use) Our male corella has been drinking this water for 2 years now, and has never had any problems. Let's try giving Karsil and get tested. Can you recommend any course of vitamins for young cockatiels? We look forward to your response, and thank you for your advice and responsiveness...

• Alisa333

  And another question has arisen. Is Karsil bought in a simple pharmacy, like a regular drug, or should there be a specific one for parrots, with a dosage per bird? Please tell me?

• Anna

  Good afternoon. The parrot is young and has not yet had its first molt. A week ago grains appeared in the litter. They started giving me a quarter of a Mezim tablet and a half of a Karsil tablet. Grains began to appear much less frequently. We continue to give medicines and yesterday the grain appeared again. And today the litter has become dark green in color (before that it was more brown) and there is a little more liquid in it. They also added activated carbon with karsil. The bird itself is active, flies, cleans its feathers, jumps around the cage, chirps. We give Manitoba food, take out all the granules, leave only the food. What could it be?

• Vika

  My parrots started laying eggs, already 3. Today I found a broken egg in the house! The parrot has become more aggressive, before he was afraid to approach, but now he bites. Some of them excrete green, dark, liquid and unpleasant-smelling droppings. I give you boiled quail eggs. What to do?

• Vika

  I was able to determine who had such a litter, a male. The birds were being prepared for breeding. In addition to eggs, which Kesha did not eat, he ate Kesha’s food, chumiza, they both drank boiled water, and once a week they ate a piece of apple. What to do and is it necessary to stop laying?

• Nonna

  The parrot has diarrhea, they took him to the doctor in the morning, they dropped some medicine, they went to work, they came, he was lying in a cage, they tried to give him something to drink from a syringe, water flows out of the spout, he throws his head back and arches... what should I do?

• Catherine

  Hello. A Karella parrot, the yellow litter eats and drinks normally, but the color is alarming. There is no way to contact a veterinarian. Tell me how to help. Please…

• Anna

  Hello, the parrot's droppings are white, but he eats and drinks. We contacted the veterinarian and they couldn't help us, they said everything would get better, but 2 months have already passed. WHAT TO DO?

• Edward

  Hello, on February 17 I bought a boy budgie, today he was chirping at about 7 in the morning, then at 11 he got ruffled and sleeps with his head thrown back in his feathers, and his chair is black and watery, what’s wrong with him??