Just a warning to all

[flyingfluff]

I just wanted to warn everyone so they can prevent the same mistake I just made.

I had all 6 of my birds out in the bird room, unsupervised.

I just went in there and found my precious little Coco (budgie) holding up her foot, with blood all over it. I'm guessing Coco landed on the green cheeks' cage and Scooter bit her. Thankfully the skin was just nicked, kinda like if one of us got a papercut. No bones were broken and she's going to be okay. This could have gone a lot worse.

But all of you, please take this as warning. Do not let your birds out unsupervised. Also, be very careful if you have a small and fragile bird like a budgie out and able to interact with a bossy, assertive, sharp beaked parrot like a green cheek.

I will no longer be letting the budgies and cheekies out at the same time. And when the budgies and tiels are out, I will make sure the top of the green cheek's cage is covered and I will be putting something about their cage to help encourage the budgies and tiels to land on that instead of the green cheeks' cage.

 

[flyingfluff]

Update: Coco made it through the night which makes me insanely happy! She is however still holding up her foot and babying it a lot. She is limping around her cage and trying not to put any weight on it. Instead she'll flap from perch to perch and try to land on her good foot.

I've already called the vets and spoke to the receptionist. They said they'd have their avian specialist give me a call back so we can figure out what to do because we live an hr away from them and if we don't have to make the drive out there, I'd rather not.

 

[shadowme]

Keep us informed on what happens. I hope that her foot will be better. I guess it will take a little time to heal, as long as nothing is broken.

 

[flyingfluff]

Spoke to the vet. He said in his professional opinion, not to make the 1hr long drive to come see him. He said all he'd do is look at it, put some neosporion on it and send us home. Budgies are too small and fragile to do anything else.

Coco is still hanging in there and being a real trooper, over 24hrs later. I took a closer look and I think a toe on both of her feet might have actually been nipped, but it's hard to say. There's dried blood on both of her feet, but I don't want to stress her out more and try rinsing off the blood to see what's underneath, because that may open up the wounds again. She's pretty much staying in the same spot and not moving around a whole lot. But she is preening, and she is starting to put all of her weight on the injured foot. So that is good news.

But yeah, I'll be keeping an eye on her for the next few days, but I am confident that she's going to be fine.