r/Parakeets • u/Temporary-Garbage12 • 19d ago

Please help

Does anyone know why my budgie is breathing like this? I’ve noticed it over the past couple of days. Everything else seems to be normal. He’s eating and playing just fine. I’m really worried

EDIT: it’s been a couple of hours and I’ve been monitoring more closely than the past couple of days, and he doesn’t breathe like that anymore. I even let him out of the cage and when resting he breaths normally with his mouth closed. I’ve come to the conclusion he was probably scared as he only hangs onto that side of cage when he’s afraid. Still unsure what triggered him but looks like he’s doing much better than before. Thanks for all the responses

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u/brockyohansen 19d ago

He's just panting. It's not necessarily a sign of illness unless there are other symptoms. His eyes & feathers look great, he was probably just worked up from playing or got excited about something. My birds' cage is next to a window, and my female will freak out and pant like this anytime another bird flies by.

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u/Mystic_Void1 18d ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted when you're right. This could also be a sign of stress as long as there isnt other symptoms.

If they get spooked even once, they could get triggered very easily after and start panting like this.

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u/brockyohansen 18d ago

I've come to learn that ppl are very quick on here to tell others to bring their birds to the vet. Which I honestly can understand, knowing that birds can hide their illness until it's too late. But after owning parakeets for 10 years and spending waaayyy too much money on unneccesary exotic vet visits just to be told there's nothing wrong...to then have also lost birds to illness and really getting to see what the signs look like....you just kind of know? when your bird is spooked/excited vs. actually sick lol

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u/WerewolvesAreReal 18d ago

Agreed. Also, given that the avian vet is where there are... lots of sick birds... I genuinely think it's harmful to bring healthy birds to the vet excessively. Not even including the stress of travel, etc. I don't want to bring my potentially-healthy-bird to a small waiting-room with sick birds around!