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Emergency Triage
Is this an emergency? Walk through a quick triage assessment to determine how urgently your bird needs veterinary care.
🚨 These signs require immediate vet care - do not wait
- • Unable to stand or severe loss of balance
- • Open-mouth breathing / gasping at rest
- • Visible prolapsed tissue (vent, oviduct)
- • Suspected egg binding with straining for more than 2 hours
- • Seizures or neck twisting (wry neck)
- • Severe bleeding that won't stop
- • Crop distended and hard for more than 24 hours
- • Sudden death with unknown cause in multiple birds
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Run the full triage assessment
Our guided assessment asks about symptoms, duration, and severity - then tells you whether this is an emergency, urgent, or can wait for a scheduled appointment.
Start triage nowWhat happens after triage?
- ✓You get a clear urgency rating: emergency / urgent / monitor
- ✓Guidance on what to do right now while you locate a vet
- ✓Links to relevant condition articles for the symptoms you entered