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    fallstherain Guest

    Default Very limp. barely moving

    So I went away for two days. I made sure Spike (my 3 month old flier) had enough food and water when I left and my family took him out to play on sunday. I just got hope and woke him up from sleeping and he just kind of layed there. He has nver been this inactive before. He feels a little cold so I am trying to warm him up. I offered him food and water and he didn't take either, he just bit my hand (it could have been to tell me to leave him alone or something) I'm really worried. Any information would be helpful.
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    Nathan

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    Default Re: Very limp. barely moving

    Get him warmed up first thing, with a heating pad, or with hot water in a plastic bottle, or a rice buddy (some rice or beans in a sock, microwaved for about 30 seconds or until nice and warm but not hot). A flyer expert will be on shortly.
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    Gently squeeze the skin behind the neck and observe if it remains "tented" or returns to normal position. Remaining tented indicates dehydration - some water or pedialyte after he is warmed up would be in order. Then - if there are no other symptoms, I would get a small amount of sugar or sugar water in him to be sure that low blood sugar is not an issue.

    Is this the first time you have been away from him?

    What do you feed him? How old is he?

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    Default Re: Very limp. barely moving

    What condition was he in before your trip ???
    What is his main diet ??
    How did your flyer act when your family took him out on Sunday ???
    Did he fall or get drooped by accident.....sometimes accidents happen when we are away from our kidz.
    Is he peeing and what color is it ??
    Lots of questions need to be answered because you are our eyes in a situation like this. I am sorry this has happened to your baby.
    As the others have mentioned....give him a heat source until he can thermo regulate on his own again.
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    Default Re: Very limp. barely moving

    I heated him up. He's about 3 months old. He still doesn't feel as warm as normal but I put him on a heating pad and he keeps crawling off onto my leg. He's not peeing, so I don;t know the color. I offer him water and he doesn't take it. I offered him a peanut and he is just keeping the nut in his mouth. He's just sitting on my leg, not moving unless I pet him. He eats kaytees fiesta parrot food regularly, and I always have water available for him. I haven't been putting calcium on or in anything because I heard that nuts have a lot of calcium in them and there are a lot of nuts in the bird food he eats, and he does eat them. He has cotton balls and newspaper shreds for bedding.

    He was fine before I left. When my family took him out he was really hyper. He made a lot of big jumps and fell on the floor, but he does that a lot and gets back up and tries it again. That and I am the kid. I'm 18. My mom and probably my 15 year old sister took him out so I don't think anything could have happened that they didn't notice.

    I tried the pinching of the neck skin thing. It stayed tented for about 5 seconds and slowly went back to normal.

    I'll try the sugar water and the tums.

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    Sounds like dehydration and MBD....the parrot food has too many nuts and seeds. Not good for him.....he needs to get on a better diet with lots of natural calcium in the foods he eats. Give him water or pedialyte every half hour for the next 12 hours.
    MBD can kill him.......it takes time to properly heal the effects of MBD. If you act fast and change his diet them MBD can be arrested and your little guy will recover.
    If he won't stay on the heat source then put him in your shirt against your chest to keep him warm.
    Yogurt is a good calcium source which you can get into him ASAP.
    Add cuttle bone, deer antler or femur bones and sea shells to his cage for chew toys...they are all good natural sources of calcium.
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