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Post: Sideways head on blue black masked lovie

Posted by Rowena on 5/08/06

Hi all,

Here's a strange one. Just got in a blue blackmasked lovie
female. Her head goes sideways!! Not just now and then,
but all the time. Background history is that she was a
breeder for two years - supposedly his best one. One night
she was fine and sitting her eggs, next morning her head is
going sideways! Her coordination is a bit off but that's
to be expected from a sideways view of the world. She's
eating and drinking fine. She seems to get around her cage
just fine, even flies up to the swing perch. The breeder
retired her when he found that whenever she climbed in and
out of the nest box, she was just clumsy enough to break
her own eggs.

He didn't see her fly into anything, had just had a vet
check on his breeders a month or two prior to this. We're
giving her her permanent home in retirement.

Any ideas anyone? as to what - besides flying into
something - may have caused this? Do lovies get
neurological problems thru genetics? But no matter the
answers, she'll still stay here, unless it turns out to be
an illness that's contagious. Then we have to think of the
rest of the flock in the house. She's really a good
looking bird, the sideways thing just seems to add to her
personality! Rowena

Posts on this thread, including this one

Sideways head on blue black masked lovie, 5/08/06, by Rowena.

Re: Sideways head on blue black masked lovie, 5/10/06, by Andie.

Re: Sideways head.../Andie, 5/10/06, by Rowena.

Re: Sideways head on blue black masked lovie, 5/11/06, by Evelyn.

Re: Sideways head on blue black masked lovie, 5/19/06, by Becky.