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Do plants, only absorb water through osmosis via their roots or do they absorb water from all parts of the plant? Or is this species specific? Thank you
(this happened a few days ago and he's fine now - I'm not asking for veterinary advice)
So the other day, I gave my budgie a three inch square block of honey and sugar-coated birdseed. Hung it in his cage and figured he'd take a few days to get through it and he'd just eat bits and pieces of it whenever he wanted.
Went away to do something else for a few hours and I came back to see that he'd eaten like 2/3s of it in that time and his throat/crop area looked like he'd swallowed a golf ball. He was sitting there fluffed up and looking really sorry for himself.
Shortly after that, he threw most of it back up again and had bad guts for the rest of the night too.
Okay, I guess I learned that this little guy lacks the concept that eating to excess can have a bad outcome. Or he did before this. Won't be repeating that again. If I give him the same sort of honey seed, I'll just give him a small piece next time.
Just wondering if all budgies are like this, or if mine is just not particularly bright? This is the same bird that fell headfirst into a nearly-empty jar of jam, got trapped and absolutely covered with sticky too, so it may be the latter. -- 146.200.128.223 ( talk) 12:55, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
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Do plants, only absorb water through osmosis via their roots or do they absorb water from all parts of the plant? Or is this species specific? Thank you
(this happened a few days ago and he's fine now - I'm not asking for veterinary advice)
So the other day, I gave my budgie a three inch square block of honey and sugar-coated birdseed. Hung it in his cage and figured he'd take a few days to get through it and he'd just eat bits and pieces of it whenever he wanted.
Went away to do something else for a few hours and I came back to see that he'd eaten like 2/3s of it in that time and his throat/crop area looked like he'd swallowed a golf ball. He was sitting there fluffed up and looking really sorry for himself.
Shortly after that, he threw most of it back up again and had bad guts for the rest of the night too.
Okay, I guess I learned that this little guy lacks the concept that eating to excess can have a bad outcome. Or he did before this. Won't be repeating that again. If I give him the same sort of honey seed, I'll just give him a small piece next time.
Just wondering if all budgies are like this, or if mine is just not particularly bright? This is the same bird that fell headfirst into a nearly-empty jar of jam, got trapped and absolutely covered with sticky too, so it may be the latter. -- 146.200.128.223 ( talk) 12:55, 22 June 2021 (UTC)