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Rue
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Post by Rue » Thu May 10, 2007 12:26 am

Went to give my sick Spice Finch his meds and make sure everyone was happy and settled for the night...

...and found BOTH the Spice Finch and the little B&W Mannikin dead on the floor of their cage...

...I hadn't checked them since yesterday at this time...they were both fine then...

I can see the Spice Finch having issues...esp. now that the lump returned...but other one? But I'm sure they were both fine...

...I have no idea...really...all my other birds are fine...no one used anything new in the house...plus I'm a bit of fanatic about that regardless...

I can't come up with anything...but obviously it was something that affected both of them...even if the Spice Finch died of natural causes...the Mannikin should have been fine...

I treated them for mites...but that was a over a week ago...they were due for a 2nd treatment...but not yet...

If I can think of anything...I'll let you guys know...if we did something wrong...hopefully no one else has to...

I need to go to bed... :cry:
A bird in the hand...requires some serious washing up...
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Post by Crystal » Thu May 10, 2007 12:38 am

This is very unfortunate. If you can swing it, necropsies might be your best bet for finding an answer. Either way, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Post by tammieb » Thu May 10, 2007 6:21 am

Sorry about the loss of your birds. :(
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Post by StevePax » Thu May 10, 2007 8:14 am

I'm so sorry, what a devastation.
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Post by readingfc » Thu May 10, 2007 5:00 pm

sorry to hear of your bad news Rue
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Post by Rue » Thu May 10, 2007 5:38 pm

Thanks guys...

I spent the day wracking my brains trying to figure what it could have been...

...and nothing is panning out... :(

I didn't think of doing necropsy last night when I found them...too upset...and I put the bodies in the freezer...
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Post by Finchlet » Thu May 10, 2007 11:10 pm

Aw! I'm sorry to hear about your little birds. :cry:
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Post by Thalia » Thu May 10, 2007 11:49 pm

:cry: That's so sad Rue. You might still be able to get a visual necropsy done even though now they can't do any microbiological testing, you could call around. A gross necropsy might give a clue.
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Post by FLAMEonfire » Fri May 18, 2007 9:59 am

:( OH I"M SO SAD about your birds. Please if you find out want happened let us know. That must have been so heartbreaking for you...I hope you have many others that are ok.
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Post by Rue » Fri May 18, 2007 3:14 pm

Thanks!

We've come to the conclusion that something poisoned them...no idea what...all the other birds are just fine...thank goodnes...
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Post by kenny » Sat May 19, 2007 7:04 am

hi rue
so sorry about your loss,the only things i can think of is going light or teflon poisoning but you say all your others are ok so its a tough one

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Post by byrdluv » Sat May 19, 2007 7:45 am

I am new to finches, but not birds- I am so sorry, just heart wrenching- i wonder- with the contaminants found in pet foods lately, could it be some sort of link there?
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Post by Rue » Sat May 19, 2007 11:02 am

Thanks!

No...not teflon...no one had cooked anything for a couple of day :oops:

Unless there was something in the dregs of the bird seed...there was nothing they ate that was off either...and all the finches had eaten from the bird seed at one point or other...so I don't think that was it either...
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Post by kenny » Sun May 20, 2007 8:21 am

hi rue
is it possible they could have picked up any mouse droppings ,as they resemble niger seed very closely and that particular seed is some birds favourite

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