Be careful even with stated non toxic plants-my birds died because of Hoya

[widor]

Hello All,
would like to share my worst experience to warn others- my 2 beloved linnies died due to chewing a Hoya plant- which acc.to many sources marked as non toxic...I do not know why they got interested in that plant suddenly, never touched before but 2 days ago they chewed it ans seems not only chewed but eat some of it. Within an hour one of them started vomiting and showed symptoms of heavy poisoning. ( Unfortunately it was middle of the night and no avian vet in my area. We got some suggestion what to do but we lost them.).
So please be always careful.
Picture for memory my silly little angels now

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Hello All,
would like to share my worst experience to warn others- my 2 beloved linnies died due to chewing a Hoya plant- which acc.to many sources marked as non toxic...I do not know why they got interested in that plant suddenly, never touched before but 2 days ago they chewed it ans seems not only chewed but eat some of it. Within an hour one of them started vomiting and showed symptoms of heavy poisoning. ( Unfortunately it was middle of the night and no avian vet in my area. We got some suggestion what to do but we lost them.).
So please be always careful.
Picture for memory my silly little angels nowView attachment 50226

OMG! HOW TRAGIC!

 

[widor]

just addition to the post, this plant is hoya carnosa , and picture how much they chewed. Also the stem was chewed- no was not sprayed-or at least not by me, got it more than half a year ago

 

[Cottonoid]

How awful for you I'm so sorry you lost your beautiful little ones! What gorgeous birds

Thank you for sharing though, this is very helpful.

 

[Tinabell]

I’m so sorry , really awful. Thank you for warning us.

 

[keikoasmom]

I'm so sorry. I just realized from the pictures that I have one of these plants in my kitchen. I have read that Hoya, some variaties, are toxic and it's impossible to get good information except from parrot forums, so I will take that as being all Hoya. There are many species. Thank you to the op for posting this.

 

[JjEjFjF]

People with birds shouldn’t have ANY plants their birds can eat.