Tri-State Budgerigar Society

12/31/2024

Happy new year everyone! May 2025 bring you wonderful things, like even more budgies!!! Our club will be having our monthly Thursday evening budgie chat by Zoom, at 7 pm EST on January 9, 2025, due to the holiday this week. If you are interested in talking about budgies, let us know and we will provide the link. Any topic relating to budgies is welcome for discussion.

12/29/2024

Smart bird!

12/04/2024

TAKING YOUR BIRD TO YOUR VETERINARIAN.

Unless you have an emergency situation, call and schedule your bird for the first appointment of the day in order to avoid potential contact with viral diseases from previous vet clients.

1. Make sure your avian veterinarian will allow you to be present in the exam room with your bird for all procedures. Note that birds taken into back rooms without owners can die of stress!

2. In preparation for the trip to the vet clinic, plan to place your bird in the travel kennel only at the last minute in order to reduce the time spent in the kennel which may cause stress to the bird.

3. Please note the band number and name of your bird for the vet records. Take along any important documents, such as weight charts and photos of questionable f***s.

4. If you have questions, write them down before you go and take along a note pad to write down the answers to your questions and to write down veterinary comments about your bird.

5. Once in the exam room, ask your immediate questions BEFORE the vet touches the bird so that the time handling the bird is not interrupted or extended by your questions.

6. When the vet is examining or handling the bird, do not talk to the vet as that distracts and lengthens the handling time which increases the bird’s stress.

7. If the vet is doing something that seems extremely contrary to the health of the bird, ask the vet to stop and to explain the procedure. This is YOUR bird.

8. After the exam and procedures are completed, ask any other questions. Request a report of the bird’s test results and condition be emailed to you for your files. Do keep these files on your bird.

9. NEVER LET AN AVIAN VET GIVE AN ECLECTUS PARROT A VITAMIN SHOT. Eclectus have died from vitamin shots administered by vets. Man made vitamin A is a serious problem for these parrots.

10. Do not have your eclectus parrot’s wings clipped UNLESS IT IS CRITICAL for the bird’s health. Wing clipping very often leads to feather chewing as the bird attempts to fix the cut feathers.
11. If you have a new bird, basic information about the bird’s health can be obtained by the CBC blood test and report. This blood test should be done early in the exam process.

12. When you have a SICK bird, it is critical that the following tests are done: CBC blood test, swab of throat and a separate swab of the cloaca and cultures grown in a lab from those two swabs.

13. Results of lab cultures will indicate bacterial growth and the appropriate medications will be determined from that information. It is not advisable to medicate a bird BEFORE swabs are taken.

14. With a bird acquired from an unknown or questionable source, it is important to quarantine the bird for 30 days and to have a veterinarian test the bird for PBFD and psittacosis.

15. IF A BIRD DIES, it is important that a necropsy be performed to determine the cause of death.

16. Place a dead bird, wrapped in paper towels, into an OPEN plastic bag, into the REFRIGERATOR and not into the freezer. The open bag allows the body to cool and tissues to be preserved.

17. Take the dead bird to the vet for a necropsy as soon as possible after the death so that tissues do not decay and prevent analysis of the cause of death.

18. Ask the vet to collect tissues for histopathology if the cause of death is not apparent. The vet will know where to send tissues and how to prepare tissues for histopathology.

19. Request a full report on the necropsy and the histopathology be sent via email or mail to you for your files and ask if the problem is a communicable disease.

20. IF the problem is a communicable disease and you have other birds, ask the veterinarian what you should do to protect those birds from the disease and follow the recommended procedures.

12/01/2024

Thoughts from a hungry budgie…….I’ll just help myself to this pumpkin muffin.

11/23/2024

Thoughts from a cage escaped budgie…..if I stay really still and quiet, no one will notice me up here!

11/17/2024

There will be a Zoom meeting tomorrow, Sunday, November 17, 2024, at 2 pm. (EST). We will be talking about flecking and Opalines and other topics of interest. If you would like to be a guest or participate in this meeting, please reach out and the link will be sent to you. Club meetings are usually on the third Sunday of the month at 2 pm (EST), by Zoom or in person. Contact us for actual date and location or Zoom link and more information on events or on becoming a member of our club. Our club also hosts a friendly first Thursday of the month "Cheep Talk" budgie related chat session for about an hour at 7 pm. (EST) via Zoom for anyone interested.

10/26/2024

Budgie / Parakeet Enthusiasts!
Come to our meeting tomorrow - Sunday, October 27, 2024, from 2:00 - 4:30 pm., and meet our members and budgies. We get lots of requests for birds, so this is a perfect opportunity. No obligation to join at this meeting if you are a new guest.

Spotswood Reformed Church / Pixie Pre-School
429 Main Street
Spotswood, NJ 08884

Located across from the Spotswood Post Office, in the lower level, on the right at the end of the hall.

10/13/2024

Jealous much?

10/12/2024

The final east coast show of the year is today in Rhode Island. Best of luck to all exhibitors at this ABS show. Go enjoy your Saturday by visiting with some great people and see some fantastic exhibition type budgerigars.

12th – Rhode Island Budgerigar Society *Regional Show – District 1 Meeting *
Judge Luemma McWilliams
Howard Rogers Post 25
25 McCallum Ave.
Pawtucket, RI
contact Lou Giunta 617-839-8640

10/02/2024

https://birdsupplies.com/blogs/news/how-to-help-your-bird-during-the-molting-process

Help your bird through molting with easy tips on diet, care, and comfort! Discover how to keep them happy and healthy during this sensitive time. Learn more today!

10/01/2024

More pictures from the show in August

09/29/2024

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09/29/2024

09/27/2024

Gator Done budgie show in Lake City, FL, has been canceled for this weekend, September 28-29, due to power outages and area wide damage.

09/26/2024

This bird is an African grey parrot and not a budgie, but it will have a better life.