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I have a 17 year old female cockatiel who appears to be very sick. Last month she had a cold and she has never fully recovered from it. She was getting better until she started to lose balance. She fell off her food bowl and then her perch. She now stays on the bottom of the cage where she...

I recently switched my six month old cockatiel, Cthulu, on to an all pellet diet, as per 2 vets recommendation. Today marks the end of a ten day weening from seed to harrisons super fine pellets, with fresh veggies and bird bread to help the transition. He was hyper all day, but when I switched...

Hi all - I have a ten yr old sickly cockatiel. Even though it is sad to say, I am amazed he is still alive. For 5 years, we have visited countless vets with no success. He is a severe plucker (mostly around the back) and has ripped out his tail. He now chews some of his skin until it actually...

I am usually the go to girl for cockatiels in the bird store I work at and I can answer any question a costumer can come up with, no problem! But when it comes to my own little Flock I am a huge worrier. So I adopted a cockatiel from my boss after he came in with a hair wrapped around his toe...

I was given a baby that is supposedly 8 weeks but I bought a scale today and she only weighs 75 grams they were telling me to feed her twice a day but she is crying all the time I feel like an idiot she is such a whiner, she cries all day and whimpers unless I cover he in her bin and as soon she...

This morning when I woke up, I noticed my little pearly cockatiel twiggy, wasn't chirping like she usually does, So I went to feed her, and she wasn't touching her food. Her eyes were a bit drooped, and she seemed more tired then usual. I checked her stools, which were a tad runny, and called...

Today I wanted to take my cockatiel Raiden out of the cage since she had been nagging me all morning. I approached the cage in which she and and my other female cockatiel Ray are residing, everything was normal until I tried to let her climb on my finger like usual. All of a sudden she freaked...

My cockatiel tiki hasn't been looking his best these last couple of days. He isn't as lively as usual, he doesn't sing as much, he seems to be shivering every now and then and once in a while I'll catch him sitting on the floor of his cage which is unusual for him because he loves his top perch...

Hello Everyone :) This my first real post so forgive me if I make any mistakes here or there. About 4 weeks ago Bob, my white faced lutino:wf lutino:, hasn't been feeling too well and I noticed sticky feathers on her face and I thought it was vomit. So I took her to the vet and she said that...

As a couple of you might of saw, a week ago I posted in the forums about Chewy's crop as it was enlarged. I took him to the vet, and he gave him a check over and said everything was fine, it was just that Chewy had been eating too much food. Vets orders were to cut down his food, which I have...

Hello, My name is Stephanie and my Bird's name is Bastion, who is an 8 year old cockatiel. I brought Bastion to the vet about a month and a half ago because he looked like he was falling asleep, even though it was the morning, his eating was off, and he was showing many weird behaviors...

Hello, I'm hoping yall will be able to share your thoughts with me. A little backgroud info: last weekend I noticed my 4 year old female cockatiel acting strangely. She constantly had her feathers puffed, was sleeping a lot and, what really got me worried was her non-responsiveness to her...

Yesterday morning when I woke my bird up, he seemed fine. But later in the day when I was setting him to bed, I noticed the feathers under his beak have parted and a crusty brownish build up is around, and looks to be dripping from somewhere around his beak. I thought maybe he got into...

hello everyone hope everybody is doing well today I need your expertise to help my birdy For a few a days, my little birdy is sick. She shivers sometimes and the main problem is that she cant open her right eye. She is not making any sound. Just sits all day and looks miserable. She's almost 7...

I am looking to purchase a new hand-reared baby. I went and viewed these little guys last night... I prefer the grey one (for personality reasons obviously!) however I am concerned that he is sick. Both birds are the same age, yet this one has large bald patches... with no sign of new pin...

I bought my bird from a pet store ...and he sneezed a lot. I thought it was my house or the bird had allergies. Well I can see visable signs: -laying at the bottem of his cage -puffed upd -sleeping alot We wanted to know of what medication is good to buy for a upper respirtory infection...

Hello, I recently joined this forum in the hope that I would find help to a problem I have noticed with my cockatiel recently. I originally had two cockatiels, a male and feamale. The male died just recently and I have noticed that my female cockatiel, Penny, has been vomiting. She is usually...

Hello, I recently joined this forum in the hope that I would find help to a problem I have noticed with my cockatiel recently. I originally had two cockatiels, a male and feamale. The male died just recently and I have noticed that my female cockatiel, Penny, has been vomiting. She is usually...

My tiel has one red nostril, I noticed when I woke up the this morning. What could it be caused by?? I thought it was kinda weird only one nostril turned red.

Hello, I was hoping I could get some help here. My lutino cockatiel has been exhibiting cyclic (on/off) polyurea for the last 4-5 months. It seems to peak at certain times, at which point she appears to lose her appetite and looses some weight. I have noticed that during the worse of it she...