Yes, it was me that has the budgie will her abdomen filling up with fluid. We're desperately trying to find a way to help her, and we've scheduled another appointment with the vet this week to talk about more possibilities. The funny thing about it is that it forms in cyst-like "bubbles" right above the vent. Also, her vent apparently gets swollen when it builds up. It comes and goes. When it's gone, she's the happiest as can be and hanging from the top of her cage and playing with her toys. When it's there in full blast, she fluffs up and has trouble breathing, but she always eats. She's very loved and we all hope we'll be able to help her...
The pictures there are of baby pigeons. At its smallest and its brightest coloring, it is just less than a half hour old. Their eyes open in about 3-5 days, but they are amazing and sometimes peek out at the world as soon as they hatch, as these two sometimes did. I hand raised these babies from their eggs. Ducklings are precocial, unlike parrots and pigeons, and come out with their eyes wide open, ready to eat what their parents eat and run around. Parrots are even less helpless than pigeons when they're born. Very altricial.
One day I plan to find a breeder around me that is willing to work with me to hand feed a baby parrot, probably a large one of some sort like a macaw, amazon, grey or cockatoo. I've hand raised the little ones, but no big ones, and no breeders I know will even consider the hand raising thing. I am confident I could do it...I am probably the most loving and dedicated foster parent there is for baby fids, but you know, it's definitely best they don't sell unweaned birds. I only want to hand raise a parrot because I enjoy the experience so much and I love to watch my babies grow, even from the egg. To me, there is nothing I'd rather do than stay up late into the night watching over a newborn bird or mixing up formula every 2 hrs on the dot. Every summer, I hardly leave the house due to this.
