Injured Diamond Sparrow

[steve]

Hi All

Yesterday my Hen Diamond Sparrow injured her chest on unknown object, I noticed that her chest was bleeding but could not really see the wound. I caught her and treated her with F10 Topical Ointment on the area where the blood was. Is there anything else that I should do?

Regards
Steve

[MariusStegmann]

I think that you did what you could. Just hope for the best Steve.

[Sally]

If you can put her in a smaller cage with a heat lamp, the heat sometimes works wonders. A heat lamp can be as simple as a 60w bulb in a gooseneck desk lamp.

[MiaCarter]

Agreed with Sally. A heat lamp can do wonders for a sick or injured bird.

If there's a potential of a puncture wound or a bite wound, I would consider oral antibiotics. Both puncture wounds and bite wounds have an extremely high infection rate and they can be tough to treat (the bite/puncture swells closed, preventing air flow and drainage, and maintaining a warm, dark environment that's bacteria-friendly.)

So I would keep a close eye on it and offer antibiotics if there's redness, swelling or other signs of infection. Better to take action sooner rather than later, as it's tough to get meds into these little ones if they stop eating and drinking.

I hope she recovers quickly!

[steve]

MiaCarter

She came over to me this morning and she looks fine, no blood, no marks, it is as if she was showing and thanking me, although my birds are wild they know me and are comfortable with what I do. When I go out in the morning they hear me coming and all fly to the highest perch and greet me with chirps and other bird noises, I love it.

Steve

[MiaCarter]

Well that's lovely! I'm happy to hear she's better! I wonder what happened. Is she molting? If so, it could have been a broken blood feather. (If that's the case, it's lucky the bleeding stopped. Broken blood feathers can be fatal.)

It's funny; they seem to know when you help them.
I had a similar thing happen with a little zebra finch hen who was really sick for a while with twirling. Due to the antibiotics (which cured the twirling), she ended up with a yeast infection in her vent and she started biting at the area and it was a bloody mess that needed ointment daily until it healed.
The first day she really started feeling better, she flew out and landed on me and just looked at me and started tweeting at me. It lasted for 15-20 minutes. She was just chattering away. It's like she was thanking me and showing me she was okay. She's quite shy and hasn't done it before or since.
They're funny sometimes.

[lovezebs]

steve
Glad little Diamond is feeling better. I would go over the flight area with a fine tooth comb, to see what she could have caught herself on. If there's something sharp, other birds might get injured as well.

Good luck

~Elana~

[steve]

lovezebs

It is such a large aviary that there are places where she could have been injured, I am just glad she is ok.

@MiaCarter

It is so cool when your birds know you, I love it.

Steve

[lovezebs]

steve
I always greet mine in the morning with a 'good morning!' And I get a whole orchestra of chirps and trills and honks and whistles in response. It never fails to make me smile.

~Elana~ by the way, what time is it where you're at?

[steve]

lovezebs

I have 4 hookbill cages, Lovebirds, Cockatiels, Ringnecks and Budgies, I have to greet each cage one by one otherwise I get a chorus of screeching, they are so funny.

Steve