FINCHforum

I have a male zebra finch who is probably at least 5 years old since the time that I bought him. He hasn't looked very good for a while. He's been realitively listless for a finch and spends most of his time either on the bottom of the cage, sitting in a food dish or sitting in a nest. His feathers don't look shiny and nice like they're supposed to. He looks dull and ratty. Sometimes he appears weak in flight. On catching him today to do a beak trimming (extremely easy to catch him) we checked him over. His one eye appears to have a cataract (which he's had for quite some time), but his other eye also appears to possibly have the startings of a cataract as it is becoming "cloudy" as well. He acts very unsure of judging distances. So in addition to him more or less becoming an "old man", it appears he is completely blind in one eye and loosing sight in the other.

Unfortunately, as some of you are aware, I was planning on moving everybody over to a new 6x2 ft flight cage, which I did a few weeks ago. Everyone is doing very well, except for the aforementioned Zebra who really wasn't doing all that well in the smaller cage. Unfortunately, due to the size of this cage, I can't set it up exactly as the other one was for him. Since the change over to the new cage, the Zebra has remained relatively the same as what I described above, though perhaps spending more time on the bottom of the cage and in the food dishes, than he used to in the nests. He does know the location of the food and water, though these had to change somewhat with the new cage.

Anyway, do any of you have any hints/tips/suggestions for caring for a sight-impaired aging finch?

I would think you need to move him to a separate cage if you have the room, where you can have low perches and things more comfortable for him.
But I have not had any cases like this, I'm sure someone wise will recommend something clever

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