Dry mouth and head nodning

[dafurmini]

Hi, I'm conserned about my Budgie named feero,
Feero is two years old blue white colored budgie.
Lately she has started no nod all the time,
and not towards it's friend lumi, or towards
mirror like they sometimes do. It also scratches
it's throat, and acts like it has dry mouth, ie. it smackles it's mouth
all the time. Sorry my bad english, due english is not
my native language, i'm from finland.
I would be thankful for any help you can give.

DaFurmini/Toni

[lin]

mm, it's a bit hard to tell what the problem is. Can you possibly take a short video of it and post it for us? (photobucket offers free accounts for this kind of thing). Is there an avian vet in your area? It's always best to get these things sorted by an expert.

Oh, and hi and welcome to the forum

[Scully]

Welcome to the forum

a video would be a good idea. My bird had one hole of his cere blocked by some egg food, which made him breathe through his beak more.

[dafurmini]

The problem with the video is that i don't have a camera right now,
but i can ask from my friends if anyone can lend me one.
I hope Feero is okay, since she is kind of my favorite, sounds sometimes
like donald duck when she wants fresh lettuce, also lumi (the other bird i have)
they have these little fights when two of them wan't to be on a same spot same time (it happens alot).

[MotherHen]

Does feero have any problems swallowing. Canker could be a thing to look at. I would be taking Feero in to the bird doctor.

[dafurmini]

I haven't noticed that Feero would have swallowing food,
it does howeever seem more tired when it does the head nodging.
I do hope it is not cancer, by pet hamster had a cancer and
it was quite horrible disease.

[silvercloud]

I think you should take Feero to the vet, preferable an avian vet, for a check up. Birds don't show any signs til they've been ill for a while.

[MotherHen]

Plus to with a voice change... Metal poison should be looked at.