Please Help!! Aspirated finch?

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wildbird
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Re: Please Help!! Aspirated finch?

Post by wildbird » Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:42 pm

He may have eaten the pellets too quickly, or for some reason they expanded after being eaten. A necropsy may be inconclusive.

Icearstorm
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Re: Please Help!! Aspirated finch?

Post by Icearstorm » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:15 am

Dayna
I wish you luck.

Shannylee
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Re: Please Help!! Aspirated finch?

Post by Shannylee » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:36 pm

Dayna, so sorry that you lost your owl.

I had an adult male canary aspirate while feeding chicks. He gasped for about 10 minutes before he finally died. :cry:
~Sharon

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