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

I am not a breeder but I did have a green and peach love bird
(until she was stollen) she had a disfunctional eye and I
honestly don't think she could see out of it but she never
tilted. She would fly around the house just fine. Interesting
subject though.


On 5/11/06, Evelyn wrote:
> Could she possibly be blind in one eye? I have a Fischer's
> hen who tilts her head. She is a wonderful mother though!
>
>
> On 5/08/06, Rowena wrote:
>> 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.