5 week old baby parakeet attacked by mother

Question
Hello,

Thank you for your advice.  Juicy the baby is doing fine.  I followed my instincts for careing for her.  I have had 2 large parrots for 25 years.  
1 Congo African Gray and a Maluccan Cockatoo.  It just seemed weird to treat such a smaller bird.  I kept her warm, cleaned her wounds and applied small amounts of neosporin and opthomologiy ointment.

On the third day, she started to run climb and eat till her hearts content with the other males.

I could not have asked for a better outcome.  When I call her or she hears my voice, she will run to
the front of the cage to be picked up and cuddled.

Lots of love, caring and watching and warmth helped so very much.


Thanks again for you advice.

Renee Gibson
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Followup To

Question -
Hi,
I had bought 2 parakeets for my children last year.
The female hatched 2 eggs 1 week apart from each other.  For some unknown reason, she attacked the smaller one last night, plucking all the head feathers off.  I've isolated the female from the other 2 males since the small one that was attacked may be female.  I've cleaned and stopped the bleeding and her eye is there.  At first glance from the swelling in the face, I feared the eye was gone.
I placed her back with the male's today, she is moving around the cage, I've given water by eyedropper.  I've seen the other male (the one born a week before her) try to preen her and feed her.
What else can I do for her to help speed her recovery?
Is gerber baby food okay to give?  I'm not sure she is getting enough food.


Thanks for your replay


Renee Gibson

Answer -
Hello Renee! For a speedy recovery i highly recomend getting a heat lamp and an infrared light bulb. Although your birds are not sick, an infrared heat bulb is very healthy. It stimulates blood circulation, provides warmth and boosts the birds stamina. Plus when your done using it, now you have a heat lamp if your birds ever get sick. A heat lamp can be bought in the reptile section of a petstore as well as the lightbulb. The light should be between 150-250 watts. Giving heat to parakeets even if not ill is ok. Their bodies are made for enduring the scourching heat of australia. Place the lamp about 16 inches away from the cage making it so the light hits only a certain part of the cage so if the keets get too hot they can go to a more shaded area. For food, instead of baby food (which has a lot of perservitives in it) give her fresh veggies instead. Parsley, cooked plain rice, lettuce, pasta, toast, a brown salt wheel, warm beans, cooked peas, grass, and other leafy things you can think of, but not avacado! this can kill a bird. Offering freah stuff from your kitchen is much more healthy than baby food. Also if you want to get in some vitamins, powders or liquid drops are available and can be used. Check her crop to make sure its full. you cant go wrong with a heat lamp, fresh foods and vitamins. good luck with the baby!

Answer
Hello! Sometimes love and just the simplist procedure can cure anything. Its wonderful to hear that she healed up! Juicy is a very lucky little baby. I still recommend fresh veggies and cooked pasta and beans if you do not do that already. She is well on her way to 100% i'd say. good for you! im am glad to be of some help to you ^_^