Hi all! I’m new to this forum and this is my first post.
To start with, I’ve 3 sun conures and about 24 cockatiels put in a 16*18 room sized cage. 2 of my conures are hand tamed and stayed with us for 7-8 years before we left them in a permanent cage with the cockatiels. Been a year since we left them with the cockatiels.The other conure is their baby. Not hand tamed but still comes to us when we go and feed it’s parents, though isn’t still as friendly as it’s parents. The baby is 11 months old, so it’s a grown baby.
The problem lies with my female sun conure now. She’s always fluffed up. Rarely sits normal on the perch. Has watery stools with a little bit of yellow solid in it. Other than that, she is perfect. She comes to me when I go into the aviary,sits on me, nibbles, plays, feels comfortable when I run my fingers through her feathers, kisses and also goes back and eats. Her vocals are normal, flight is normal, eats normally. All fine except for the fluffing up and poop. What could be the reason?
The temperature is becoming hot but she was the same even in moderate temperature . Summer is starting here.
Also to bring to your notice about the food we give, it’s vegetable pellets, apple and sweet corn as their main course everyday along wit other fruits like guava, grapes, pears, bananas and treats twice a week like groundnut, sunflower seeds and cashews. Since they are in the same cage with the cockatiels, they sometimes taste even their food like foxtail millet and roasted gram. Also bread and water is common for both the species. Conures love bread. They are given bread daily.
Hope I’ve provided all the necessary information. Waiting for the reply. Thanks in advance!
To start with, I’ve 3 sun conures and about 24 cockatiels put in a 16*18 room sized cage. 2 of my conures are hand tamed and stayed with us for 7-8 years before we left them in a permanent cage with the cockatiels. Been a year since we left them with the cockatiels.The other conure is their baby. Not hand tamed but still comes to us when we go and feed it’s parents, though isn’t still as friendly as it’s parents. The baby is 11 months old, so it’s a grown baby.
The problem lies with my female sun conure now. She’s always fluffed up. Rarely sits normal on the perch. Has watery stools with a little bit of yellow solid in it. Other than that, she is perfect. She comes to me when I go into the aviary,sits on me, nibbles, plays, feels comfortable when I run my fingers through her feathers, kisses and also goes back and eats. Her vocals are normal, flight is normal, eats normally. All fine except for the fluffing up and poop. What could be the reason?
The temperature is becoming hot but she was the same even in moderate temperature . Summer is starting here.
Also to bring to your notice about the food we give, it’s vegetable pellets, apple and sweet corn as their main course everyday along wit other fruits like guava, grapes, pears, bananas and treats twice a week like groundnut, sunflower seeds and cashews. Since they are in the same cage with the cockatiels, they sometimes taste even their food like foxtail millet and roasted gram. Also bread and water is common for both the species. Conures love bread. They are given bread daily.
Hope I’ve provided all the necessary information. Waiting for the reply. Thanks in advance!
