by InsanityShard » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:37 am
You do not have the information I have to judge about quarantine either. They had had the same budgies in the same cage for over 2 months, with only one new addition having been there at least 3 weeks with the pied one I bought- Bonejingle himself. For over 2 months they were in the same cage in the shop, and quarantine would have helped? What I didn't know were sneezes due to never having a sick budgie before was something all of their budgies were doing. Also, my budgies are by a window, the desiese does not just affect pet birds. And finally, when it comes to the curse, you also do not have all the information to judge that, either. My mother has successfully bred budgies professionally for many years, even though it was long ago, the yellow budgie curse is not just mishandling or bad care. Because she is bedridden right now she is telling me what to do, for example changing their water every day, and once she found out my budgie had died (After I had made my distressed post asking what to do) she told me how I need to fully disinfect the cage, especially the floor, and change/clean the water/food bowls and keep the window shut. She cannot see to my birds, however she has said that the cause is most likely the open window, especially since the other guy who lost a few birds and informed me of this cold had it affect his lorikeets in an outdoor aviary, in this area full of lorikeets who feed on a bottlebrush just outside the window the budgies love to stare out of and try to talk to them through.
If tl:dr simple: The budgies were in the same cage in the same shop for MONTHS, meaning quarantine could not have helped, especially as Apple appears to have been the original carrier, being sick before the others, much more severely, and finally since what I thought was a cute tiny chirp was actually them sneezing. Which ALL of the ones in the shop were doing. The wild birds had mild contact (Just being 8 feet away, I know that's enough) through a window. The wild birds carry the illness too. And I did not know about the illness in the wild birds until today.
I keep asking around about stuff like this and instead of people realising they may not know everything I keep getting blamed on simple things like this. A cold is a cold, with birds by an open window with wild birds just feet away of course my birds could have gotten sick! This illness is at a different level, though, and I used to have outdoor budgies only who never had this issue because the wild birds who carry it were not around in that area. No research could have told me it, either, since there's nothing online tracking what's more or less an equivelent to common cold. The colder than normal Winter here with extra rainfall has made it much worse this year, however. There are so many factors I could not have known about, and I had to be told by a local about this illness (Which also claimed many of the bird clubs birds this year) because this is only in my area, and I could not contact said person until yesterday since I have only recently joined this club. Please don't take this as aggressive, I'm only trying to explain, I do not intend any of this in an aggressive manner. People taking me as being aggressive is a problem for me. Me and other breeders in my area agreed quarantining birds that were together for such a long time already did not have much point. With all the birds in the shop sneezing, too, I chose the wrong shop, even though they're usually the best one in this area for birds. They're the ones who actually tell me stuff like I can't put a Lovebird with anything or have much luck training one as a beginner with my mum only having experience with budgies.
