Bleeding From Chest??? EMERGENCY

[jenise]

Hello, I have 2 8 month old sun conures and I noticed a blood red fluid on my shoulder from time to time after carrying them around. I did my own research and came across that they’re poop would end up as the color of the food you fed them, so I thought that must have been it.

Today, I held one of the birds on my finger as they let me stroke their head, and the same blood red fluid squirted out onto my finger. It came from its chest, and the bird didn’t seem started or in pain at all. I knew there was some kind of mark on its chest before, when I first got them, but I figured it was still some feathers growing in. When I put the birds back in their cage and checked on them later, there was no more red fluid.

I’m a new bird owner, so I only know what the previous handler told me. He seemed to be taking very well care of them. This is only happening to just one of the birds. What’s happening? Should I be worried? Please help.

 

[SailBoat]

This would be a very strange place for this kind of occasional bleeding!?!

Generally, from the chest, it would be a small body feather that is a blood feather. But, that would be an event bleeding, in which the bleeding does not stop. A cut or open wound that is not healing, but there would be a trail of blood to the source.

There's an outside possibility that one Parrot is picking at the other or the Parrot is over preening and opening a feather root.

But, this is all guessing and what is really required is trained eyes and hands-on! Call your Avian Vet Clinic and set-up an appointment.

 

[wrench13]

Absolutely the best advice you could get. Take them both to a AVIAN CERTIFIED vet, not a dog and cat vet. I would separate the 2 tonight in case, as Boats suggests, one is picking on and biting the other. So, vet, first thing tomorrow, let them know one is bleeding, so they make a slot for you. Good luck !

 

[YUMgrinder]

If you have some corn starch handy you can glob that on there if it continues to bleed! They can bleed out quickly if the wound keeps opening up.

 

[Terry57]

I agree with Sailboat and Wrench, a visit with an avian vet is your best bet.
If you can see a wound, YUMgrinder is right, corn starch will help stop the bleeding until you can get in to a vet.
Please let us know how he is doing, hoping a vet can get to the bottom of what is going on.

 

[Anansi]

Any updates?

 

[Timneh]

It’s a holiday weekend you might be able to get to a avian vet soon, so I would at least for now bring your bird to an emergency animal clinic would be better than nothing. The vet there should at least be able to care for obvious things and perhaps consult an avian vet over the phone until you can get your bird to a certified avian vet, also I agree with the other poster to put him in a separate cage, and keep the temperature a little warmer even cover half the cage. Better safe than sorry.