Female Weight and Hormones

[Bea]

I have a question which i don't know if anyone will be able to answer for sure, but i think it is an interesting thought anyway.

Cookie's weight is usually around about 93g. Without fail, every 4-6 weeks her weight will drop, sometimes as low as 85g. The first time it happened i was a bit worried, but she seemed well in every other sense so i held off going to the vet. After several days her weight started going back up and then back to normal.

With the regularity of these weight variations, i was thinking it might be a hormonal thing. What do you think? She's definitely not sick. They're always weighed in the evening so it's not like i weigh her one week in the morning and she's light, and then next in the evening when she's eaten more and she's heavy...

[Aly]

I can't say for sure but if it's anything like humans, then it's normal. I can tell you Baby's weight varies all the time. We should start a log to monitor it- weight first thing in the morning or something. Baby's weight now is 93grams but she can go as low as 85grams to right under 100grams. She also isn't fat and nothing is wrong with her...

[Boomberry]

Oooh I dont know I dont regularly weigh my tiels and NEVER Noo hehe. But I may try this out with Jessica :)

[Bea]

It will be interesting to see if other female tiels have similar weight changes! :D

[Aly]

Ok- so I weighted her today and she's at 95...so I don't know...

[Bea]

If you weigh her once a week at the same time, you might see the change too...

[Aly]

Can we do a test? Starting tomorrow morning for a month- every week to see the changes?

[Bea]

Sure, i'll start writing it down.

[Laura]

Georgie is a little chunkie compared to all of your's...lol she weighed in at 100 and thats down from her original weight of almost 110 :eek:

[Bea]

Georgie is a little chunkie compared to all of your's...lol she weighed in at 100 and thats down from her original weight of almost 110 :eek:

:p She's still within the healthy weight range for cockatiels. Banjo (Feathers tiel, i bird sit sometimes) is about 105g.

[Laura]

I guess some like people are just bigger then others...lol

[Aly]

I guess some like people are just bigger then others...lol


Yup. Baby weighed 102 once...:eek: I got a bit worried but it's only because she's a bit tiny and that was starting to show on her belly...the little line down the middle...:rolleyes:


I'll start it too Bea- one month- every Saturday. Post what you get here-

[Laura]

all mine have the line down the middle showing :p

[birdieness]

I don't have a gram scale to weigh mine. It is on the list to but buy i have soo much i want to buy mine aswell. I'd love to know how much mine weight tho.

[Aly]

So week one- weighed her this morning and she was at 93 grams- before her food.

[Bea]

Cookie's starting weight is 90g as off last night (Saturday). :)

[Aly]

all mine have the line down the middle showing :p

Baby does a little too now.

[Bea]

I'm pretty sure that you want to be able to see a line down the middle, they need some meat on their bones. :p What you don't want is a massive canyon down their stomach..

[Laura]

What you don't want is a massive canyon down their stomach..

Well Georgies is not a massive canyon, how about a mini canyon..hehe:p
Georgies weight is at 100 grams today

[Aly]

I can't believe we all forgot about this thread...:o

[Bea]

Were we supposed to be weighing weekly or monthly? For some reason i was thinking monthly... :p Cookie weighed 89g tonight.

[Aly]

I thought it was weekly but I forgot ... Baby's sleeping now (it's 5 am here:eek:) so I'll have to do it in the morning when she wakes up. I need to go to my bed too...

[Laura]

I was wondering about that, I just figured you decided not to do it ;)

[Aly]

Well, if it means anything I weighted her today and she is 98grams.