Using newspaper in birdrooms? Help!

[Howldaloom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNr9hCVYQGQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; first video of parrot finch twirling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_aYm6HoPw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; second video. (video is sideways im afraid)

[Danny]

I have had new breeding cages recently but they sell to ALOT of breeders in my area so i doubt it is that. And no i have no metals in my room other then that.

If it was poisoning surely the chicks that have been left orphaned would have died first? asing they were getting what their parents were eating?

It does appear to be stargazing in the parrot finch but my bird is probably 4 times worse then that bird in your video provided. I think i will put her down today =(

If you are going to put her down then have the vet do it (it doesn't have to be a bird vet if you are just submitting the whole body - even a dumb dog vet can stick a bird in a jar) and send the whole body off for histopathology. I notice you are in the UK so you may well have a very different disease list than what we have here. Find out the cause and try and stop the losses. At the moment you are only guessing and more birds die while you wait.

[finchbreeder]

I do not know the answer to your problem. But answering these questions may help. Have you in the last month or so introduced anything different to their diet? This could account for adult deaths as poison accumulates in the system and the young have not had as much time on it. Do the birds have access to sunlight and grit. It is amazing the number of people who do not realize that lack of vitaman D (sunlight) and grit (for the gizzard to grind the seeds) are slow killers.
LML

[Howldaloom]

Oh yes i provide grit, oyster shell, cuttlebone and charcoal and they have a multi vitamin in their waters. The only new thing recently in their diets is maggots really.

Could she of got poisoning from drinking anothers blood? One of my albino bengalese had a blood feather pulled out a couple monthes ago, and the parrot finch was lapping at the blood, (before i split them all up)

Albino was fine, i burnt the feather closed.

Im hopping to get hold of that drug to put her on, its just waiting for vets to open now 0.o