Help with IRN behavior

[satoofi]

Hello, i’m new here and since my city doesn’t have any good vets i need help with this behavior in my indian ringneck, unknown gender but most likely a male due to his mating dance, he is around 9 months and hasn’t properly had a first molt, (a few pin feathers is all i’ve seen)

Anyway lately he has been having this weird seizure like behavior where he screams and suddenly twitches snd starts glitching and attacking himself (wings snd chest) while screaming, lasts about 15 secs daily around the same time. It has only become daily in the past two weeks and i have no clue why or what it even is. Video is attached. Any help is highly appreciated!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Do you think me might have mites and when he feels them he tries to attack them? I'm probably wrong but it's all I could think of other than he has new pinfeathers coming in and he feels them poking through the skin and it's bothering him.

 

[satoofi]

Do you think me might have mites and when he feels them he tries to attack them? I'm probably wrong but it's all I could think of other than he has new pinfeathers coming in and he feels them poking through the skin and it's bothering him.

I don’t think so because i haven’t seen a single symptom regarding that, do u not think its a health issue?

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I don't know but I consider both mites and pinfeathers "health issues". An avian vet can examine his skin under his wings and other areas that he attacks to rule out these two things and give an overall health check.

I wouldn't call what he does a seizure. A bird having a seizure would lose consciousness I would think. Yours just looks momentarily bothered by something.

Does he get out of cage time? His cage looks small and I don't see any toys.

 

[satoofi]

I don't know but I consider both mites and pinfeathers "health issues". An avian vet can examine his skin under his wings and other areas that he attacks to rule out these two things and give an overall health check.

I wouldn't call what he does a seizure. A bird having a seizure would lose consciousness I would think. Yours just looks momentarily bothered by something.

Does he get out of cage time? His cage looks small and I don't see any toys.

Oh i’ll make sure he checks under the wing alright, and no his cage is very big but i had to crop the video so it fits, i change his 2-4 toys daily to keep him excited and interested, he’s just sitting on top and i cropped the entire cage to make the video fit in size to be uploaded here, and he gets 2 hour out of cage time as he’s still not able to fly well because he had his feathers taped when i got him and he isn’t familiar with my house fully yet. I’ve had him for 5 months now

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I hope his wings aren't taped anymore. Are you going to be able to get him seen by an avian veterinarian? It sounds like you are taking really good care of him.

 

[satoofi]

I hope his wings aren't taped anymore. Are you going to be able to get him seen by an avian veterinarian? It sounds like you are taking really good care of him.

They aren’t, he managed to take the tape off but when i let him fly he kept crashing into windows/mirrors/and falling down which caused me to keep him caged for his safety until i can help him with flying better. And he already has been to the vet multiple times but i am not convinced with the Dr’s answer regarding this issue. He just said it’s a mini seizure because of Magnesium or Vit D deficiency and i dont know what to do to help him, i dont believe that it’s a deficiency because he eats vegetables all day and about 3 tablespoons of Harrison’s fine pellets. He also had a liver enlargement when i first got him due to his sunflower seed only diet, and he started changing his colors to bright yellow patches on his back, one of his eyes is also not normal as in the iris shape is irregular and therefore that eye seems dark or heterochromatic because his other eye is light blue. So many things to look at and consider and im practically lost because of the huge amount of things as a first time bird owner