My Budgie got Depressed after His Partner's Death 

How can I help Skippy?🥺

I had the same situation, my budgie was so in love with the female so when she died, he died a few days later. Romeo and Juliet😭💛I wish you all such love like budgies have

The fact I can hear in your voice how sad you are about your budgie 😣😟

And yet some people have the audacity to say animals don’t feel or have emotions. Hope Skippy gets better ❤️

These little creatures are more than they seem. He couldn't get over the loss of his bestest and sweetest friend. There is heart break and sorrow in each little feather he pulls from his body. Birds really are so special.

oh that's so sad ☹️ hope he gets back to himself again and be old Skippy, take care of him man 💙 lots of love from me and my flock!

I believe the only way to cure it is to give him more time . To make him forget his past . He misses her dearly . Just like when we humans lose our loves ones . He needs someone who he was second most closest , like u (owner)

0:49 you can tell that the new budgie was having a real and coping conversation with him. Just sitting and accompanying the greiving budgie.

This is so sad I never thought budgies can get so depressed 😞

Ik this is 1 year ago but isnt it sad, I can feel the pain on my vains and heart. Once again RIP Salvadora, we will never forget you❤🕊

I hope skippy gets better 🥺

this is what happened to me. Since my friend had a dog, she couldn’t let the budgies out. She took care of my 2 budgies for 8 months, and when I got them back I opened the cage and my bird was slamming her head everywhere, and she died the next day due to severe injuries. After a few days of her death, my second budgie couldn’t take it anymore and also flew to heaven. I miss them so much…😭

I had a same traumatized bird who witnessed her partner’s death, and everything has been changed for her. Her happiness, her innocent puppy eyes, her carefree abundance of joy all never have I seen after that. She got so traumatized from this experience, and I was heartbroken to see this happening all the way till her passing away. I was never able to completely heal her. Till now, I accepted and acknowledged that there might be never true remedy to completely heal a broken bird-because they have been through life and death, why shall we expect them to just be happy and act as if they have been through nothing? However, I did notice that talking to her with a slow calm voice for at least 10 minutes everyday made her feel a bit relieved, and felt that she has been cared for. It’s a lot of work to heal a broken heart, not only to humans, but all living souls. I hope it helps. And I love your channel❤️

Poor bird still grieving for his partner

This is really sad and i hope he gets better Try give him challenges for example get a piece of paper and have a little ball of millet inside and he has to try and get it i did that for one of my budgies (keeped on plucking his feathers since his partner died) really helped!

I almost cried while watching this video, fly high salvadora.

Poor baby! So much like humans that suffer a loss. I'm a widow for 7 years and the pain is still fresh. I think feather plucking is a self soothing habit that's very hard to stop. Like people with Tricotillomania. Hair pulling habit that also is extremely hard to stop. Leading to bald areas on the scalp. I hope your sweet little boy is feeling better and in love again. 💞

I used to have an aviary. Birds are very social animals. They experience love and respect. Skippy will never be the same but with lots of interactions and perhaps a new friend he will get better. Feather pulling is a sign of depression and stress.

I feel so bad for Skippy. I can relate to this situation because my budgie Timmy did pluck his feathers like 5 years ago. Nothing was wrong at all but he was constantly plucking his feathers till his death. I found him death on the ground that morning on fathers day bleeding out because of plucking. And we don't know why he did pluck his feathers to this day. My mom and I thought he did that because he flew against te wall pretty fast and it probaly damaged his wing and skin. So rest in piece little Timmy, you are still here with us!🙏 And yeah, I'm so sorry for my bad English. Because I'm from the Netherlands

My budgies mate just died. It was so sudden. The night before, she was squeaking with every breath she took, and I had hoped that after a night with lots of fluid and water, she'd be okay. I checked on her before I left for school, and she was still alive. I came home to sprite (my male budgie) calling out for her, and I looked on the floor of the cage to see her lying on her back with her eyes closed. He still chirps for her. Today, we're getting another budgie and after quarantining the two of them we'll introduce them to each other slowly. He was such a happy bird, and I really hope he'll be okay.

I had the same problem once and I couldn'und t help her (her partner had died after five years). Of course she was never alone. I had two other birds and bought a handsome boy for her. But she plugged her feathers and started to eat less and less. A friend of mine had 7 birds and took her in. She became another bird and became really happy. Might be, he needs more playmates. It was the case with my bird. Of course I am not a professional, but I know the feeling seeing your bird suffer like that. I hope you can find a way to help him.

Most of the time when something is wrong with my budgie I play a relaxing song and talk to him and trying to understand him I know it sounds stupid but it will work I hope that I was able to help more but it's only 8 months that I have my own budgie just be hopeful and happy because budgies will understand your feelings and if they feel you're sad they're going to be sad too ❤❤❤

When my cockatiel's mate died, she began laying eggs every two days without letup. Once I rescued a baby chicken from the rain, and put it in her cage for lack of a better place. She enjoyed the company and stopped laying eggs. She was elderly, and I didn't want to get her another mate, but I found that if I put a bird of a different species in with her, she was happy and didn't lay eggs. I got her a young budgie, and it worked out perfectly.

Aww poor baby 🥺 I’ve never owned a bird before but I have been doing research for 6 months now. I just suggest letting him chill and don’t force to many new things on him. getting him a new companion was a great idea! I think adding the new female made him happier than he would have been without her. Still take him out of the cage to cuddle and play, just go easy on him. Best of luck for you and skippy :>

Very tough situation....you proved a new wonderful😇😇😇 friend....you give all the things a birdie could need or want. So hard when your feathered angel can't talk back to you. Many say seek specialized veterinarian👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🧑‍⚕️ advice. Good luck! Bless you!🐞🐞🐞

It's like the new budgie knew about his grief & was trying to help him out. Don't take an animal's intelligence level for granted, they can surprise you with a new talent.

She sent that bird down from heaven and I and she hope’s everything is okay 😭🥹🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏽🥹😭

poor skippy!.... i hope he gets happy again but still remember his great great friend! the partner is still in skippys heart we will all have her in our hearts! she lived a good life even if she got sick it has been cured after death but lets share how much we love her and we cared about her invluding skippy we will never forget the good budgies!

Honestly people don’t see how much the other birds care and they still can’t replace the hole in their hearts

Second and we love your channel and your budgie Stay Strong And Keep Supporting Your Budgies

The poor baby- I hope he gets better-

I feel so sorry for him I hope he gets happier

My female budgie passed this morning, my male budgie was devastated. He is depressed and comes to me and my sister for attention and we’re gonna give him as much attention as possible until we can find another bird for him

Feather plucking can be very addictive, like biting nails. Some people crochet little shirts to put around their bird's chest, to make it more difficult for them to pluck

I think you should take him to the vet feather plucking can sometimes be cause of a disease

Very sad to hear that about our cuto pie Skippy but just take care of Skip ... May God bless u Skippy Lots of prayers from me and my 5 budgies.... Recover dear Skippy soon!💕 I know u are going to take care of Skip excellent and he will recover

he will get over it as long as he is not alone and realizes it...Give him a lot of attention, And clean everything because of the smells from the other bird. Good luck you two❤️

Hope lives in a happy life time

I got a bird from the pet store. I think she was bond to another bird in the pet store. She did not take care of herself, did not grind its beak, which budgies usually do when they are content and relaxed. Got skinnier and skinnier until the beak was so long it could not eat normally anymore and we had to help her eating. I think budgies bond with another budgie for life and struggle hard with heart ache.

You can get him some more friends, and try to give him alot of attention and play with him alot. Also, try to spend alot of time with him (for when he got depressed). And to help skippy, you will have to try and get a budgie almost like his partner, and make sure he becomes friends with her. Also, try making him happier as your playing with him. If it doesn't work, try different methods. I hope it works!

Spend more and more time with Skippy , he will be normal soon❤️❤️

shower him with love, poor fella, he’s very cute.

Just give him lots of love and extra attention 💕

stay strong skippy!! you can do it :( this is sad i hope he becomes himself

My vet said my budgie had to have euthanasia , he was very poorly, wasn’t chirping at all and in lots of pain, my other budgie does not yet realise he’s gone but he was a lovely budgie and used to talk to me a lot …

these kind of videos just make me emotional

I wish I knew how to help but I haven't even been able to help my friends out of this sort of grieving from such a hurtful loss. Time will help and the more he's occupied the less he can pluck. Someone mentioned getting him more friends and I think that could help. You can also try giving him more foraging puzzles.

Sorry for your loss😔

I hope he gets better soon! What might help is giving him more attention and maybe some mental challenges (like puzzles, there are diy ones you can make from bird safe materials) or ask the vet about ways to calm his birb brain (like medications or a herb tea made with budgie friendly herbs).

Poor Skip. He's lucky to have you, Salvadora (RIP), & Sweet Billie.

Aww Nu! Poor Blueberry... His pal is in a better place now, and we all are there for you lil buddy..

Rest high in the sky’s salvadora

Hope he gets better soon

Rest in peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️

I recently got so budgies. 4 them I I can tell they get along pretty well with each other. Your videos have been helpful

Sorry to hear. Hope the budgie is feeling better now…

Please spend more time with him, give him cuddles and scritches all the times

I think you should just spend time with him and THIS IS A MUST: add chamomile tea in his cage! ^^ Lavender flowers will also help :D they calm down birds~

What I do to prevent this from happening, is that I do activities with my bird, and give it treats whenever it doesn't pluck or acts aggressively. I give it a lot of love!

give him more friends and keep him busy and keep playinn with him

Our strong skippy 💪💚

Rest in peace salvadora💔

Omg!! I clicked so fast 😭

This break my my hearttt💔😭😩 I’m so sorry for Skippy. I hope he will get better. poor little bird

Aww poor Skippy I really hope he gets better soon🙁 Maybe give some foraging toys so when he gets the treat he loses stress! Give him more treats then usual (favourite foods) Spend a lot of time with him and keep Billy near because its clear shes trying to help. Maybe some calming music to calm him down Show that you care just like Skip did to Salvador!!💙💙💙

this is so sad.. may skip be in our hearts and may god bless him and salvadora. 😕

I have two budgies. My white one called "Snowball" just died form a accident yesterday. She flew onto the curtain, and her talons got caught. But when she finally got free it was to late... She flew down underneith a desk and got a bad head injury, I've only had her for a year. My dad was probably more upset than me because I was crying so so much, and he loved Snowball too. My heart is broken, I wish I could bring her back.. All my life I wanted budgies, and I'm glad she was one of my beautiful feathered baby. We made a grave for her outback with her feather on top. Her friend Rio is so scared, and cunfused, and is looking all over for her, I feel so bad, and I don't know what to do..😭😭💔 I love you Snowball, I hope you forever fly high!💔😭💞

Get one of the soft anti plucking collars - there are various types and there are small ones for budgies. Ask the vet about calming pheromones, maybe there are some for budgies, there are certainly sprays for dogs and cats, why not budgies? Do all the other things you already do, hygiene, nutrition, toys and hope time heals. ❤️ to the little soul.

you just made skippy more traumatized than ever because of salvadors death and billies death

My beautiful budgie pass away today. She was a beautiful all white. I will miss her.

Omg! Awe.... Poor baby 😔

Getting him a mate after some time will help. When you think he is ready.

skips u can do it! I believe in ya! Ur a very amazing strong budgieee

Awww they have feelings

Bringing Billy was good way but it only does 20 percent of it I think you should get her something Like ,getting him outside With a harness with Billy .allowing him to eat fruits nearby or if it's in this much depression it's a big problem . Think a way by which budgies get the most happiness . Stay strong and strengthen skip God bless you भगवन तुम्हे अच्छा और स्वस्थ रखे

That's sad, poor Skippy

Same happened to my budgie......and today we are buying new one

😢 skippy rip Im so sorry for ur budgie 😢 I gonna get a two budgies soon ,and take care 😢.

My budgie Flink lost his wife Bucky 2 years ago they had two sons together but after her death he actually was depressed he became really dry he looks like he became 100 years old because he was so dry but then he decided that he should take care of his boys and without a partner he became happy budgie

Oh no the poor little guy, I feel so sorry for that small man ;-; You really do a lot for him, maybe you can hand-feed him I made game with my birds, I take seeds in my hand and let walk to me or jump on my finger Then they get the treats

I’m soooooooo sorry little biggie

Buy a Budgie who looks exactly like SALVADORA.So skip may be able to overcome what he is gng through right now.

Same situation..I had 3 budgies 1 female & 2 male.unfortunately both of the male budgies d!ed now my female bird is left alone.she hasn’t came out from the cage for a whole day.I really wish she doesnt pass away cause im bringing her new friends tomorrow💖Rip all the beautiful budgies😔🕊

SOOOO sorry for your loss 😞😞

Huge thanks for this video! Depression is terrible but we can fight it!

A little heart broken from one bird that died. I feel very bad for skippy😭

My cockatiel passed away leaving his wife heartbroken. I'm hoping she recovers from the trauma of losing him.

our budgie lost his friend some time ago. we got him a "lady". since he was quite intrusive to her, we got him a male and a female. now we have party at home and everyone is happy. PLEASE get him a new partner. But talk about it beforehand whether you can give the budgie back if the two do not understand each other. that's how we did it.

Oh no!! Poor little Skip! 😭😭

It is very hard when they self harm. I have a girl Budgie that lost her partner about 2 years ago I didn’t know what to do with her forever. She preened herself silly, she was bald in places. She has a new partner now, but it took over a year. I just tried to spend as much time with her as I could. Try getting a toy they can keep busy with. I have a shredding ball, and they love to focus extra energy and stress on that. Also, I had many to start with (Two were her siblings) so they were like a mini family. Maybe bringing about four more in might help. I know it’s hard to care for them but sometimes having a few peers and not just a mate might ease the stress of trying to breed again right away. You should be careful of this too as you don’t want to bring any sickness or plight on your Budgie, try to bring more Males then females in. Hope this helps. 🙏🏻

give him much love much care in a day 3 or 4 times fly him in all house bath him carefully fulfill her need give him much food spend time whit then 2 or 3 hour play whit him if your budgie is trand soo give him free flight then he come back and ect

something that I noticed is that he has stress bands (the small black lines in its plumage) and knowing that the feathers are mostly formed of keratin these can be the causes: 1. when in the growth of the feather the necessary amino acids are not produced to build that protein (Keratin) (lack of nutrients). 2. increase of cortisone (stress hormone). and in your case the trauma of the death of Salvadora...that is stress. that would be neither diagnosis

I feel so bad for Skippy bc R.I.P Salvadora and R.I.P Billie

I wish I came sooner but the best thing you can do is constantly talk to him in the early morning and throughout the day as well as play music. I had a bird go through same heart loss but I managed to help him out of it

At first I wrote budgies don't understand what death is and don't really care if somebody dies... but then I saw his condition...

It is sad how many people think birds are dumb, stupid, emotionless animals. They actually form better relationships with their partners than many mammals, reptiles, and fish.

TAKE SKIP TO THE VETS 😰😭🥺 I WAS ALSO CRYING WHEN U MADE A VID OF SALVADOR DIED

Same with me . My male budgie lost his wife after she gave birth and now he has a new partner known as Lily

I had budgie too but sadly after sometime my parents sold them because they were too naughty and my parents weren't able take care of them as they are always busy and I was too young... I was in 1st grade, now I am again asking my parents to get them again because I am now old enough to take care of budgies 😃 Also I remembered that my budgies actually plugged out their fur too for no reason, I thought this was normal now I am thinking they might be unhappy with us that time... But I think you should give him more time and love and take him outside and if you have neighbors who have birds too then you should take him to theirs so skip might be able to get out of his past and enjoy his time with his new friends or you can buy more budgies so he won't be alone anymore

💔This melted my heart.💞💔