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From: bjb@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (Barbara Bowen)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: sick budgie?
Message-ID: <541@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 19:39:30 GMT
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Reply-To: bjb@ncrorl.UUCP (Barbara Bowen)
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In article <1338@compugen.UUCP> john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes:
>My female 7 year old budgie has spent the last week sitting on a perch
>such that her tail feathers are positioned towards the ceiling (they are

Sounds like egg binding to me. - hopefully she'll still be alive when
you get home tonite - try the following:
	1.   Remove perch, bird needs to be down low to conserve
		strength.  Put heating pad under cage, cover 3/4
		of cage with towel.
	2.   Warm up oil - cooking oil, mineral oil, baby oil,
		NOT motor oil!  Use small medicine dropper or
		1 cc tuberculin syringe (minus needle) for oil.
	3.   You need to lubricate the vent with warm oil, massage,
		then place bird back into cage.  Tail pumping
		indicates trying to lay an egg.  It is tiring &
		stressfull, you may need a vet.  Don't let her
		go any more than 4 hrs. after lubrication.
Do you know what a vent is?  Do you have any idea how dangerous
egg-binding is?  She could still die from peritonitis.  If you
don't know the above, get her to a vet.  (PS - email bounced)
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