Lovebird Sleeping on the Bottom of the Cage?

**Hasuki** · 01-09-2012, 02:17 AM

I bought my second lovie on Sunday, she was fairly sleepy when we brought her home from the markets (but so was my last one, I think it has to do with the car rides and the amount of people who stop to look at them). But today she's been pretty active (squeezing though the bars of her cage and flying around the room kind of active). But now it is night time and she is sleeping on the floor of the cage... should I be concerned?

I think she is younger than my other lovebird (shes a little smaller, the other couldn't quite fit though the bars) and I'm fairly sure she has been eating (I gave her some millet during the day but I haven't seen her take any pellets, though I wans't really watching them for a long time).

I just want to know if I should take her to the vet...

PS, they're in a different cage now, one they can't get out of.

**britany** · 01-09-2012, 04:10 AM

I don't know much about lovebirds but if it is active and looking healthy then i would think that it is caused by it using too much of it's energy so it can't hold itself up on the perch?
i don't know but all i know is that when budgies are sick and and have no energy and are close to death..... they are always at the bottom of the cage...but im not trying to worry you!i just think it used too much of it's energy or maybe it always slept at the bottom of the cage since it was born?
Maybe you should just wait till a week later until you should really be concerned

**Hasuki** · 01-09-2012, 05:08 PM

Never mind... She's dead.

**ArticunoGail** · 01-09-2012, 05:27 PM

Oh no! I am so sorry to hear that! New fid or not, it must still be upsetting. I am thinking of you.

ArticunoGail

**britany** · 01-09-2012, 05:43 PM

I am so sorry to hear that!!

**ChesterHannah2010** · 01-15-2012, 03:45 PM

She probably still needed formula baby lovies tend to sleep on the bottom the first week or so, that means it was younger then 7 weeks. Just because she ate millet doesnt not mean she was fully weaned. I bred lovies and at 5 weeks they were eating millet and other small seeds plus some warm veggies and they still needed formula until they were around 9 weeks. They stopped showing interest in the formula. And paid more attenntion to their food.