Big losses

[jusdeb]

Might worming possibly already sick birds be a bit risky ? Anyhoo I guess if theres something going through the aviary that is this aggressive then it cant hurt .

Sorry youve had such a big loss , it must be ruining your holidays knowing its going on .

I guess a big cleanup of the aviary when you get home is in order before adding new birds ...hope you dont lose any more.

[GregH]

It's an unfortunate fact that no one looks after your birds like you do. If I go back 25 years the incident that made me give them up was due to my father not realizing the birds were starving to death (blocked seed hopper) during the week ( I was attending UNE and came home to Tamworth every weekend). I do hope you're in a position to recover from this and that your wife doesn't outright ban you from giving her responsibility again so that you can never have them. S**t happens and you've just got to move on.

[finchbreeder]

The only time I had a sudden large loss like this is when I could not get my usual seed mix for a couple of days and fed a supermarket brand. Imediately the regular seed mix was available I scraped every seed of the supermarket mix out of the avairy, cleaned the hoppers and fed the regular mix. Deaths stopped straight away. Yes I advised the local vets and the supermarket. Just in case some seed had been in a wharehouse that was fumigated for vermin with something poisoness to birds.
LML

[jusdeb]

Is touching wood ...never has big losses thank god , have lost 1 baby and 1 rescue in the last few months and that was sad enough ....not a good feeling .

[shaunh]

Yeah my thoughts is that a disease has gotten to them. Feel very sorry for my beautiful wife she was so worried that something may go wrong with the birds while I was away. Your right sh#t does happen and even though this is a massive setback have lost all but one female Gouldian and two pair of stars and by the photos she sent trough most of the zebs. I will get back next week have a good clean up and get back into it again, hopefully I haven't lost the lot! Thank you all for your thoughts and comments, yeah today was pretty hard hearing about each one dying.

[Misso]

Sorry to hear mate, seems to strange for a disease to kill so many so quickly, all thou I'm no expert! Wonder if anyone living around u had a gas leak or let off some sort of substance? No water will also quickly kill them off. Learnt the hard way

[shaunh]

Water she said had been filled each day but not cleaned out, and food wasnt given for 3 days, then yesterday threw in a box of millet spray, then the deaths all started happening??? She has gone and purchased some of my regularseed mix and has put that into the aviary

[finchbreeder]

Depending on how often you usually feed. Could have starved? Or could have been a problem with the millet sprays.
LML

[shaunh]

Usually feed daily

[Buzzard-1]

The biggest problem with dry millet sprays are most are years old and have little or no feed value. They look good and birds play with them more than eat them.