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MY BUDGIES Story and his broken leg (pls help)?

i adopted my budgie when he was 1month old. i took him home and in the first to 3rd day he always bite me everytime i changed his food and clean his cage, i heard them saying that he must have a partner so he wont be lonely so i adopted another budgie, on that very day i adopted a new budgie my first budgie started to be nice to me, he never bite me, he let me play with him ,tame him , bath him, and let him sleep in my palm at night, i was so happy after a couple of days he learned how to fly and step back and step up. and even climb up in my hand but he is really not that playful like other birds, and hes so silent compared to the younger budgie i adopted is very noisy. 1week passed and his behavior changes, started whe he learned how to fly higher, he even knows where im keeping the seeds in the kitchen, when he wakes up in the morning he comes out in the cage and fly to the kitchen to eat although theres a food in the cage for him, so i was surprised that in his young mind he is really brilliant. after that my other budgie died, i never let them stay in one cage together because im worried tehy might fight and one will die, itried maybe 4 times let them stay together and tehy are like biting each other but when i research online, that if u saw a budgie eating food and leaving a food in his mouth and passing it to the other budgoe or to human ,it means the budgie loves you... i just realized that when the other budgie is gone , i didnt know twhy werent fighting but they love each other.. but it was good thing a few days when the other budgie passed away they slept together.. after that i could see how my male budgie feels about that, he doesnt wanna disturb, he doesnt wanna talk and be tamed just alway flying everytime i try to play wih him, so i decided to get him a new partner but too bad i couldnt get a new partner younger than him or with the same age so what i did to make him happy is that i bought a big cage with full of toys, and i saw him very happy and smiling, but still he loves to sleep in my laptop on my bed since that was the first place i always tamed him when the very first he arrived home, after that i bought a bird castle and put at the top of the cage with lots of decorations like swing and etc and i can see how he likes it, its just that he doesnt play that much he sticks in one place and sleep and sleep.. so when i noticed he stays always in one place, i let his cage open so he never spend his time inside the cage but he loves to stay at the swing and sometimes at the very top of it..but in the midnight he comes to me and soemtimes sleeps in my finger or beside me,, so i just let him because i really fell in love with him... december 1st comes and i was about to book my flight to beijing and taiwan for vacation, so i took him to the veterinarian and make sure that hi is in good condition when i leave him to the care take and the VEt says he just got a bit stomach ache and give me medicine for him, the day after when i arrived home i saw him sleeping and i noticed he couldnt walked straight so i suspected a broken leg and i also noticed a lot of feathers has been removed on his body as ive learned online that is not good if the bird is trying to removed his own feathers ,i urgently brought him to the veterinarian, and the vet says that he will be fine just give him the seed w/ vitamins the he gave me before... i was not satisfied of what he told me so i researched online, and i found infos like, the best way is ti put him on a hospital tank, cover him with cloth so he could resta nd feel safe, no sound at all so he could feel comfortable, no perch or tape the perch at the bottom of the cage and put all his food somewhere he could get it and make the temperature more hot because a sick bird easily looses heat.. so i bought a hospital tank and as what it says at net. but what happend is that he got so mad at me when i did that, he keeps on flying at the top of teh hospital tank and never stops so i feel so worried he never stops movin and it might be comlicated when he broke his other foot which is the only one he uses to walk and i feel so gulity and sad about it, so i took him off the hospital tank and let him stay at the top of the cage at the swing as he wants it. so i felt like it is better to leave him there since he is not moving that much reather than putting him in the hospital tank, so what i did is just i turned my heater to 30c inside he room so i wont need to cover him in a cage to feel th heat..i observed him that the day he broke his legs he never say anything but in 3days i heard him saying a bird talks again so was happy that he is gettin better but the thing is that when he gets better he keeps on flying and made me so much worried about his broken leg and i saw the one leg taht he is usibng to walk is already inflaming and getting dark because that the only leg he uses so he could walk, so i tried of putting him in the cage and taking off alll the h he doesnt wanna stay in the cage he keeps on flying upa nd moving everytime i tried to put him in the hospital tank, i took him off because his legs might suffer more of him trying to climb up of the hospial tank... he doesnt fly that oiften if hes ouf of the cage but i saw his left foot is inflaming because its the only one he uses to walk and has a bit of scratch and im so much worried it might get worsed... the veterinarian says ill just give him vitamins im not satisfied.. i dont know where to find the best avian since im in japan... i dont wanna lose my budgie.. and i cant stand see him suffering that way...

Public Comments

1. It sounds like your budgie injured itself, probably while flying in your house. The vet you went to doesn't know much about pet birds. He sounds very imcompetent telling you that your bird has a stomach ache and not examining the leg. You need to take your budgie to an avian vet for treatment. An avian vet specializes in treating pet birds and has the knowledge to treat the broken leg. Broken legs must be treated as soon as possible. If a budgie's broken leg goes untreated, the leg can be deformed and your parakeet won't be able to use it. You can't treat your budgie by yourself. Please get to another, more informed vet, soon. Also: It's good you're keeping your budgie warm and have him comfortable in the hospital cage. Make sure your budgie is eating and drinking.