One of his eyes is swollen shut - the other, he blinks alot. These are the only symptoms of his being sick, he still is eating and pooping regularly. This only happened today, he was perfectly fine yesterday. I read that ornithosis/psittacosis is also called parrot fever and is transmittable to humans and shows up in humans as a flu and/or pneumonia. I recently had pneumonia, so i'm wondering if that was caused by my bird. This sounds very serious, and i'm getting sort of scared. I love my bird, and I don't want to get rid of him, but if i'm putting the rest of the household in danger, i don't see many options. Please let me know what you know about this disease. I've put a heat lamp on him, and i've just recently started using a UV bulb during the day. Please help. :(
2006-10-30 14:39:48 · 5 answers · asked by JillyBean 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
Take him to a Vet immediately. You can't know if it's psittacosis. The Vet will probably treat him with Diflucan or Baytryl. It will probably clear up. It's unlikely you caught anything from your bird. It is more likely he caught something from you if he did at all. He could have picked up something, from his water, his food, who knows.
One other question: Was he around other birds that were sick? If he wasn't, how could he have contracted it?
Just make sure you get him seen by an Avian Vet. More likely than not, an antibiotic will clear this up. However, I am not a Vet, so he needs to be seen by one.
2006-10-31 00:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by Phoenix 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me that, regardless of whether or not you choose to take your bird to a vet to be treated (and you SHOULD, it's not right to just let it suffer), you need to look into finding a GOOD home for your keet now. If you can't make the commitment to take care of a parakeet, sick or otherwise, then you shouldn't have it. Too many parakeets suffer emotionally and physically because people buy them expecting them to be pretty decorations that are low maitenance.
Parakeets are as intelligent as a human toddler.
Would you get rid of a 2 year old child in your family because they were sick with the flu?
Please....get your sick keet some help, and look into finding him/her a nice home with experienced keet owners.
Until then- there are over the counter antibiotics to try for him. They are liquid and are to be added to his water, which you WILL change atleast once a day. And take that heat lamp off of him unless he starts losing feathers, or spends all of his time huddled up with his feathers fluffed, as this may indicate him being cold (although they often get lethargic and do this when they are ill anyway). You don't want him to over heat. Keep a thermometor in his cage. Keets need a temperature of 60 - 80 degrees Farenheit ideally.
Good luck!
2006-10-30 20:07:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sure it's. The intent persons yawn is to convey extra oxygen to their mind. (this might acct for the intent I yawn at all times) This is the intent many persons yawn after they get up and whilst they're worn out. When one is sound asleep; they don't seem to be getting the oxygen that they might get in the event that they have been up and approximately and whilst one is worn out; one loses oxygen to the mind. Perhaps there are scientists that say it's not contagious however they're all stuffed with crap on account that everytime I see any person yawn (even supposing I'm simply looking a film and a individual within the film yawns); I will without doubt yawn. Unless ofcourse any person says "I'll deliver you one hundred bucks if you do not yawn".
2016-09-01 04:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask your vet for anti biotics for your bird? sounds to me like YOU gave this "cold" to the bird ! ? dont abandon him now, please . for better or worse, pets are for life ...
2006-10-30 17:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by sillygoose 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
look below
2006-10-30 14:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by huckypeep2 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋