Sick Finches but eating well too

[peter tan]

Hi,

I have just started keeping finches and I have 8 of them, with 5 Gouldian Finches. In the last 2 months, I had 3 finches died with same symptoms. They started to fluff, head on to the back. However, at times they eat their meals happily, and go back to the fluff & sleep and again, back to eating.

I have tried giving Silver Collidal and it worked for a while. One went back to normal. The other 3 died.

I changed their papers and water twice a day!

I am wandering what went wrong!

Thanks

[B CAMP]

Welcome to the forum ,if you fill in your profile with where you live it makes it a lot easier to answer questions sometimes ,have you checked out the finch information center there is a lot of good reading there
http://www.finchinfo.com/index.php
Its very hard to say what could be wrong, I would try to seperate the sick birds if you can.
and try to give them a little more heat with a lamp at one end of cage so they can get warm. The link will talk about a hospital cage .Someone else will be on here soon that might know what could be wrong with them.Good luck keep us informed

[cindy]

Everyone here is very helpful. Can you give them some symptoms like any trouble breathing, runny stool, color of droppings, that would help.

[peter tan]

Thanks, everybody. Its really nice of you guys to reply to my issue!

Sorry, I didnt say much of where I live. Im in Singapore, midst South East Asia. The climate here is predomaintly tropical, with rain and sunshine. Temperature here is never below 19 Degrees C. I have got finches and canaries. But they live separately.

The stools are watery but I will try to bring the sick ones out to hospital cage to observe them better. I will try visit the website to read for more.

Thanks once again for all your very very kind help...
PTan (Singapore)