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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 11:53:00 No.332970 View View Reply Original Report

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I came home and noticed that one of my birds had died while I was gone.

I had cleaned out their food dish and let it air dry yesterday. I figured that they'd be fine until tonight.

Did I starve my poor little bird? Do budgies require 24/7 access to food?? Are there any other reasons why a bird would just suddenly die like that? :(

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 11:17:00 No.332979 Report

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Why do you hate Budgies? They did nothing to you, but be allowed to be locked up in a cage all day.

:"(

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 11:18:00 No.332980 Report

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@_@ u kill birds god damn it!

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 11:19:00 No.332981 Report

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birds have a pretty high metabolism, so them not having access to food is pretty bad. Where they without food for 24 hours then, or for longer? While it's possible that the bird might have starved (if it was skinny already before that), it may also have been sick. If you have other budgies who shared a cage, then this could be bad--especially if whatever germ that one bird has was transmitted to any of the other ones. I suggest bringing the dead bird to a vet or similar and see if they can tell you what the bird died from.

But yes, you should generally have a bird have access to food 24/7. When biologists are doing studies on how birds react to food stress, they take away access to food for 6 hours a day. 6 hours is a big difference from 24 hours, yes?

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2008 11:34:00 No.332986 Report

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No, it didn't die from starvation. It would've been fine. I know, I've been there before. Birds are natural flock animals; if they are sick, they don't show it lest they risk being alienated from the flock. Symptoms never really show until its too late. But yeah, you're other bird could be in some trouble. You might want to take it into the vet for a check up.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2008 15:16:00 No.333596 Report

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>>332986
This.

Also budgies are bitey animals. Sick or otherwise infirm birds don't as much get "alienated from the flock" as pecked to death via stress.

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