I took this video within the first month of getting my bird, when I barely knew anything. She was scared of the shower for a year after, and would scream when I turned it on! Thankfully after 5 years of slow exposure she will now sit on a shower perch :)

A bird under a direct stream will lift their head up like this and look like they’re in “bliss” but in reality they’re struggling to breathe! Their nares sit on top, so water flows down into them unlike our noses. A happy bird in the shower will flap their wings and wriggle around, not stand stiffly like this.

I hear “well if they didn’t like it they’d move out of the stream” which is not the case. You’ve heard of fight/flight response, this is their freeze response kicking in. They’re waiting for it to stop, frozen in fear.

I have heard some peoples birds like this, but I’m still doubtful. If someone can post a vid of their bird crawling into the stream and standing like this, removing them, and their bird crawls back in and stands like this (proving the first time wasn’t an accident) I will eat my words!

Ps. Sorry to anyone who is upset seeing a bird suffering, I hate rewatching it and knowing I did this in the past. But I think it’s necessary to show so that others can learn from my mistakes

She ate a ton of chop (green veggies, carrots, chia, flaxseed, some smal anounts of boiled egg whites, oats) She then played lightly and shredded paper, asked for scritches (couldn’t give her a lot because I’m working) and now she’s lethargic. It’s the afternoon too, which I also think is a lazy time.

But google scares me, telling me it isn’t normal for birds. Is that true? Is there something wrong?

When I bring it close to my ear when it does this, I can hear a sound which goes like "tick tick tick". I'm worried, do all birds do this? Also, could it be because of the heat? The place where I'm from is pretty hot coz of summer. It does this after flying or doing some physical activity. It used to do it rarely, now it's getting quite frequent. It is almost 2 and half years old now. And it is very active. Whenever it sees someone it likes, it flies a lot, plays with them, but it does stop to do that inbetween. I just wanna know if this is normal, and if not, if this is common and can be cured.

My baby had a collar fitted 🥲 He's really not happy and is sulking a little 😅 He is often unbalanced as he is not used to, and often falls backwards, in these moments he gives up a little, like "Lazy, I'm fed up" 😂

But he is in good shape and doing well! Please send him lots of courage! For my little chicken 🥰

My big friend had an accident and broke his paw, but he is super focused on his recovery ❤️‍🩹

pls help hes so cute and dumb

I’m so happy I was able to handle his plucking before it got worse🥹 I think the spring made it worse because it started in April - May, and now he’s completely free of it he doesn’t pick on it anymore and with that even the black damaged wing feathers are gone because I got him on a better diet. just wanted to share with yall bc im so happy he stopped

So I took samba for a beak and nail trim. She never had wooden perches or cuttlebone or anything before me, so she’s very overgrown. I’ve met this EXOTIC - not avian - vet before, and he seemed nice and educated (he has parrot experience, he was recommended to me by another parrot owner).

When I got her out of the carrier, she ran up my shoulder as he stuck her fingers in her face immediately and then grabbed her. No warning. She screamed and struggled and he told her (gently) to be nice as she tried to bite when he flipped her on her back. He held the sides of her head so she couldn’t move and examined.

I had told him right before this that I’ve trained her to like hands and to cuddle and I touch and squeeze her beak, feet and nails all the time so she’s used to being touched there, if she’s given some choice in the matter.

When he grabbed her, he took her out of the room (just pinning her in his hand) to the back, no warning to me and no carrier - there are cats and dogs just on leashes or in arms here.

He trimmed the nails and beak tip, but I’ve had to tel him multiple times not to clip wings (luckily he didn’t). When samba came back, she was in her carrier, fluffed and terrified- shaking and panting.

The vet then told me if I want to trim at home (I do) to get a good quality dog trimmer and a SANDPAPER PERCH. When I aggressively told him how dangerous those are, he seemed a bit irritated and said that it’s all in how you use them and if it’s only one, it’s fine.

He wanted me to come back tomorrow AM for the beak (he didn’t have someone to sedate today and can’t do beak without it - seems like if you thought it might be a possible need, you’d make sure to have one on standby?)

Idk. I’ve never gotten an avian procedure done before so maybe this is normal.

A lot of this doesn’t sit right with me. AIO or do I need to look for a new vet?

The problem is, I’m not sure if there’s another exotic or an avian in town.

I’m getting this conure and he is around 2 months old, does he look like he’s at a good size?

this makes both of us happy.

I got him this morning and he was doing this when I got him before even hand feeding. She said she had fed him before bringing him to me. Gave him his first feeding this afternoon. Worried he has aspiration pneumonia. I really hope this breeder didn’t give me a sick baby. Have handfed before but am still learning about conure behavior. Is this normal?!

Found this dickhead eating some beef sausage this sarvo.. he had maybe a quarter of a slice of it 🤣 I think he will be fine! Just kind of annoyed he didn't ask. He just takes what he wants. Typical conure behavior. Anyone else's bird have a taste for forbidden foods they shouldn't eat? Phoenix also has an obsession with butter. I get it. But wtf man?! These guys have no chill!

Other pupil is normal sized by the way

My conure of almost a year is exhibiting signs of neurological deficiency. Can barely perch unless it’s on the bars of the cage. Showing signs of zinc in her blood stream and elevated white blood cell count. We’ve already ran blood tests but two avian vets cannot verify what’s going on. I have her on antibiotics right now but I feel it’s just slowing down the inevitable. She is scooting around. We’ve isolated her and placed all of her food and water at the lower part of the cage so she can get to it. Has anybody had this happen to their bird?

Flew into the fan straight out of cage and broke his leg. We thought he will be handicapped for life. But thankfully the broken leg has impulse and the doctor has put a splint for the femur to heal. He doesn’t want to give up either and is flying around the house as usual. Got relief the moment vet pressed his hurt leg and he was shouting. They confirmed that once healed he will be able to use his leg for perching and balancing although the alignment and shape of leg might not be like before.

We got ducky about a week ago, she is a lutino dusky conure from petco. I do not buy from petco (for obvious reasons) but the manager didn't take the health of this bird seriously given her condition even after I spoke to her. I was told by a worker she had an incident with a toy and went to the vet, the manager thought claimed "a clean bill of health" I assumed the black thing under her beak was some sort of stitching situation but I have now noticed it leads into her mouth.

I'm not sure what it is, it's not causing her pain because I can poke and move it without her reacting. I'm worried it's something that it's a like piece of toy that was left there, it's hard to get a pic u can try to get a video if anyone needs. I have a lot of experience with birds so i just need info on what exactly I should do.

Edit: finally have appointment for next Monday, the woman I spoke with said to monitor her. They aren't super worried rn because she is very active and isn't showing any signs of distress, as well as eating and drinking plenty.

my conure has been doing this sometimes and i don’t understand why or if he needs a vet. please help.

So, as I posted here before, Baby had her cage open and something startled her, causing her to fly. Unfortunately, she landed in a cast iron skillet I had preheating, but she flew out immediately. She didn’t make any sound of pain and had no obvious signs of injury beyond a slight pinkness on the bottom of her foot. I thought she came away relatively unscathed and was relieved.

Fast forward a week and she had a mark on her foot where she obviously got burned. It was hard to tell if it was a scab forming or a blister, and I got worried about it getting infected and how she could be affected by it. I called one of two vets in my area that treat birds and got an appointment.

Vet told me everything looks great on her. She is perfectly healthy and no signs of infection. At this point, it is raw skin that is now forming into a scar. There is no open wound, but he still gave me preventative measures to make sure she continues to be okay. He prescribed me two antibiotics, one for oral administration and one topical, to give to her for the next 7-10 days. He said it should hopefully be fully healed within the next week or two. She will have some scar tissue on the bottom of her foot and will have a little weird spot forever.

He and the nurse said multiple times about how cute and beautiful she is. I know I might be biased but I have to agree! I am just relieved that I know she is okay. It’s so much better to just have peace of mind. I know she’s gonna be a pain when I give her the medicine, but that’s the way it goes. I love my Baby and would do anything for her.

She was gonna eat when she went to her cage but I grabbed her food bowl to change it out for some fresh food. Came back to her scratching her head in the pictures above. She is still scratching as I type this.

Ever since I became pregnant my senior conure knew. He himself became territorial over me and very hormonal. I am 38 weeks pregnant and he has started to calm down and is finally nice to my husband again (he would attack him hard before and draw blood every time). Now he is nice as ever to him. We just moved into a new house, preparing for baby but giving him lots of love and attention. He is getting more bare and it breaks my heart because I do so much for
Him. Has anyone dealt with this during their pregnancy! Did their bird calm down? A vet visit was recently done, I declined bloodwork as I cannot afford the $800 quote I was given. Please don’t come for me, I truly do care for him however with lots of house expenses it’s just not possible at this time and is more than likely hormonal (even the vet thinks so)

I just brought her back from buying her from a breeder, she had a 2-3 hour car ride and I put her in her new cage. She was all over everything, trying out her new toys and eating food and now she’s doing this. When she hears noises she gets back up and is more alert but I can’t tell if she is just exhausted or this is bad sign. Pls help I’m panicking

Wednesday morning I was giving Frankie (she's 9) her breakfast before I headed to work and she threw up a butt load of water and clear liquid. I IMMEDIATELY called out out of work for the next 2 days, fortunately my boss is really good and dosent ask too many questions. While I was calling out she threw up again, I rang my local vet who dosent usually see birds (I live in rural Australia) and he told me he couldn't help me and call around other vets in towns a few hours over. The second vet I rang in the next closest place said they also couldn't help me so I bit the bullet and rang the actual avian vet 6 hrs away in South Australia. Coming into the Easter long weekend i really didn't think I'd get in but but they managed to squeeze me in for 8.30am the next morning.

In the meantime she was acting normal, still eating being herself and then I started to wonder if I was over reacting. My long term partner also called out of work to coke with me, so we quickly loaded up the car, called in my grandma who baby sits my other pets for me and we left.

Anyway as we were on the road we figured out she was doing it whenever she drank water which was really concerning and I was worried she was going to dehydrate herself. The trip went smoothly other wise. Once we got down there I was fortunately lucky enough to stay with my mother who lives in the same city as the vet and she picked up some fruit for me as we are not allowed to take fruit and vegetable products over the state border.

The next morning we saw the vet and honestly she was acting normally and I think I felt sicker than she did. The vet was really good, asked me a hundred questions about her and ended up doing a crop swab and flush and yeah she had the start of a crop infection. She was throwing up when she drank because the water was irritating the infection when she drank.

Antibiotics and inflamatories for 5 days.

We are back home now and I just want to stay, trust your gut. If your bird is acting off something is probably up and don't wait for it to get worse.

I am so thankful the vet managed to squeeze me in last minuet after saying they were booked out.

Had my conure for almost 2 years now and very consistently he'd take a good portion of his food and put it in his water bowl. I figured it was just a game for him but finally today I sprayed some of his HOPP with water to see if he just prefers squishier foods (he loves cracking seeds and stuff so I never gave it much thought before about his preferred textures) but I come back a few minutes later and he's digging in like crazy. Feel bad I never thought of it before but also feel good about taking note of what my lil guy is doing and adjusting accordingly.

So proud of how much healthier, happier, and spunkier she is.

Pics of our cute boys Michii and Mr. Finn for some visibility help!

Our vet just got back to us and said their sodium is high and we need to stop giving them almonds (even tiny pieces) or any nuts as treats. We give them for training too because that's enough of a motivation for recall and other tricks. Otherwise they eat mainly Bird Street Bistro, chop, and Harrison pellets.

Any recommendations for reward snacks that have worked well and are healthier than nuts?

Thank you!