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She only makes these strange sounds after drinking water. She sniffs (like kids do after they cry) and it sounds like there’s liquid there. It goes on for 15-20 mins after drinking water. She eats well. However, some days after waking up she has trouble breathing. The vet said that it was due to...

Hello My cockatiel has had a severe infection he is still weak because of severe weight loss so he is still on the recovery road Yesterday i noticed he is going down on the cage floor a-lot to sleep But he is eating and drinking fine his movement seems to be okay and when i come near him he...

Hello everyone I posted a thread earlier that my male cockatiel was sick he had heavy diarrhea and vomiting and i started him on medication. He is doing better his diarrhea is gone, his poop is much better no stringy poop attached to him and the vomiting stopped I stopped the medications and...

Hello everyone I have a 10 month old cockatiel, male he is a very social bird talks and sings alot Last week i noticed that he stopped being social and stopped talking , he also had diarrhea, i took him to the avian vet he gave him a small amount of antibiotics straight to the mouth and my tiel...

Hello everyone I have a 10 month old cockatiel, male he is a very social bird talks and sings alot Last week i noticed that he stopped being social and stopped talking , he also had diarrhea, i took him to the avian vet he gave him a small amount of antibiotics straight to the mouth and my tiel...

Hello everyone So this is going to be a long story so please bare with me :) I have a male cockatiel 10 month old, he is a sweetheart very social,talks and sings alot My friend asked me if i can take her 3month old cockatiel for 10 days because she will be travelling so i took him and put them...

Yesterday, I bought a lutino, Maisy, from a bird expo. She did seem a little unwell when I put her in the aviary but I thought it was just her being overwhelmed, since she had a busy day. Today I noticed signs of her being ill. She slept a lot, barely moved around and was always puffy. Could...

My 2 month old cockatiel has been shivering and sleeping a lot (which sleeping is normal for babies I know) but she has been shivering and stuff I don't know for sure if she is sick should I add antibiotic to her hand feeding concoction

Hello! This is what my cockatiel looks like… it’s a boy and we got him from a pet store. The pet store’s conditions were horrible, they fed the cockatiels with seeds in bulk that probably lead to bacteria… The people there’s told me “the parrots are just fighting with each other that’s why they...

Hello everyone! I posted a few days ago about my sick cockatiel. Turns out the vet said she had a respiratory infection. He gave her 3 injections and vitamins. He didnt do blood work or any other tests, he started the treatment the first day we got there because he was scared if he did run the...

Hello everyone! I have a 3-week-old cockatiel named Nacho. He's a very active bird and has a HUGE appetite. But one morning, a family member painted her nails around my Nacho. After an hour, I noticed that he (I like to assume that he's a boy) slept in his box like a sick adult cockatiel would...

Hello! I have a one year old tiel now, he’s rather finnicky at the best times, and he’s really starting to scare me. i have tried to swap him to pellets over and over for his own health and he refuses to eat. Just starves himself. Won’t eat fruit or veggies or anything other than millet and...

My baby boy Tiel is recovering from a plethora of issues that he brought with him, didn't 'catch' in my apartment. I learned my lesson about buying from a store, but I have the sweetest little pal living with me now. He is 4 months old, still under a Vet's care. On antibiotic and motility drug...

Hello! I've been a lurker here for a while but I have a question that I'm freaking out about because I just read a thread about a cockatiel dying because of nail polish. I just finished painting my nails and they were sticky dry. My sister brought my tiel (who normally lives downstairs) to my...

My little man Drogo is sick! When I woke up yesterday morning and checked on him, he had a coating of something sticky all over his face and head. So I researched what this was and was told by various places that it meant he had vomited. Of course, this happened the morning of my first day of a...

My cockatiel is male and almost 5 years old. Over the past few weeks, i've noticed an occasional wheezing sound when he breathes. He has no signs of runny nose or discharge of any kind. could it be a respiratory infection? when he sits on my shoulder i can feel a bit of moistness when he...

:cry: Oh noooooo. How quickly something can go wrong....... My bird was fine this morning, everything seemed normal, after a couple of hours though I noticed he was being rather quiet, that's not unusual though some days he has quiet days, then noticed he had some very runny poos and he hasn't...