Parrot Disease Control and Prevention

Abnormal behavior

    Compared farm birds rarely communicate with people breeding species of birds, more common in pet birds, this issue. Each bird has its own characteristics. With its mature, the bird's personality will slowly build. Many farmed pet birds still retains its instinct. When the pet bird's needs can be met in time, they will behave very docile. If their demands are ignored, they tend to show a lot of abnormal behavior, such as: attack, irritability, pluck, do not listen to the password, and so on.

Red mite

Symptoms:

    1, skin irritation
    2, legs and mouth pale birds
    3, itching
    4, feathers growing weak
 
    This mite is not directed against any particular bird species, it can drill into any birds, vampire. They are often in groups activities, nocturnal. During the day hiding in cracks in walls and other places, the night birds who climbed out of the vampire. Sometimes the mites in birds, draw too much blood, the bird will appear anemia, will eventually lead to the death of birds - especially minors chicks.
 
    The solution is to carefully clean the birds, the powdered drug is dissolved in water and then spraying the nest boxes and cracks in walls, as well as around the cage. These potions will kill red mites.
 

    Against red mite invasion, canaries and other finch chicks are more in need of special protection.

Joint dislocation

Symptoms:

 
    This symptom occurs before the birds learn to fly, sick birds leg below the knee bent and deformed portion. This is a natural sexual disease.
 

    This disease is perceived to be a natural sexual disease. As we grow older birds, leg deformity became obvious (one foot or two feet). Careful observation of birds can be found below the knee bend, dislocation, deformity. Some people have tried to use splints and bandages, even the birds through surgery to correct deformities discretion, but without success. Birds suffering from this congenital found only perform euthanasia, sick birds no longer suitable for breeding.

Impaired liver function

 

Symptoms:

    Weakness, gait, difficulty breathing, abdominal distension, liver swelling.
 
    Liver is a vital organ, many diseases can affect liver function. Impaired liver function is very tricky problem, because almost no symptoms at an early stage, when it found signs of liver function Ukraine has almost completely destroyed.
 
    The more common causes of damage to the liver function of liver cancer, which is the bird food containing fat caused by excessive. According to X Lightyear Ⅱ blood tests can help diagnose what causes liver function is impaired.
 

    Liver dysfunction cure rate is very low, because when the bird is already to late symptoms of.

Feather cyst (Feather cysts)

Symptoms:


    Wings or tail swollen.
 
    This is due to the abnormal feather growth under the skin, feathers cyst under the skin instead of the normal feather growth. Some birds is due to genetic disease. Some birds are other causes: Feather growing malnutrition, parasites, virus-like.
 
    Relatively simple approach is to remove abnormal feathers and feather root cyst surgically, but if only this process, it is likely that the disease will relapse after a period of time. This problem is more prevalent in Conure and canaries in.
 

Gout

 
Symptoms:
 
    Depression, one or two legs limping, joint swelling.
 
    Bird droppings contain nitrogen, when the kidney is not good nitrogen in the blood filter, when discharged excrement as if a group of white paste. Nitrogen will be deposited anywhere in the body, usually in the joints, near the heart, liver and organ tissues. This situation is called gout. When it occurs in the body when it is called within the gout.
 
    The most common cause of gout and kidney disease in the elderly, dehydration can cause serious and sometimes birds gout, the best solution is to ensure that there are enough fresh drinking water for the birds.
 

    A veterinarian can through urine or blood tests to diagnose whether the issue of anal pain caused by a kidney with kidney disease of all birds need to use fluid therapy (see above), the Australian veterinary dish like using allopurinol (a drug) to help break down the body nitrogen and excretion. If you do not want long-term care of these birds in serious condition, euthanasia should be the best solution.

Wings tumor (Wing Tumours)

Symptoms:
 
      Wings appear swollen lump, like a chunk of muscle or skin grow on the wings.
 
      Appear anywhere on the wings of tumor proliferation may occur. Cancer can be generated from muscle or bone. When the tumor was found, the only effective treatment is surgical amputation.