Symptoms of trichomoniasis in pigeons

Trichomonas is one of the common diseases of pigeons, it mainly harms the health of young pigeons, and the mortality rate is very high. What is the symptom of such a harmful disease? How to prevent it? Let's take a look at this:

What is Trichomonas pigeon

Trichomonas is a single-celled flagellate of protozoa. The insect body is pear-shaped or oblong, with four front flagella at the front, a wave membrane extending backward along the edge of the insect body and an axonal thorn protruding from the end of the insect body. By virtue of the above-mentioned organs, the worm moves spirally in the body fluid and proliferates in the way of division, and it can proliferate for a generation in about 4 hours. It was not resistant to the outside world and died after 3-4 hours in normal saline at the temperature of 20-30 ℃.

Transmission route of Trichomonas pigeon

Trichomonas is very fragile outside the pigeon body and can only survive for a few minutes. Unlike other diseases or parasites, it is not infected in pigeon houses or directly through the environment. Trichomonas is transmitted through saliva and pigeon milk. When pigeons drink water, Trichomonas will peck out of their mouths and enter the water. When other pigeons drink, they also drink Trichomonas. When pigeons pick out grains, the fallen grains also contain a small amount of saliva. Kissing and rearing young pigeons during courtship is also a way of infection. It can also be infected through the umbilical hole and wound.

Symptoms of Trichomonas pigeon

Many young pigeons are protected by maternal antibodies from female pigeons with worms and can live healthily in the first few days. Acute cases, usually occurred in 6-15-day-old pigeons, died about 10 days after infection. Pigeon, child pigeon infection, the performance of lethargy, loose feathers, loss of appetite, digestive disorders, resulting in diarrhea and weight loss, large amount of water, oral secretions increased and sticky, light yellow. Breathing is blocked and there is a slight "purr" sound. The lower jaw is sometimes protruding, and hard objects the size of soybeans can be touched by hand. Severely infected young pigeons lose weight quickly and die within 4-8 days. According to the symptoms of the disease, it can be divided into pharynx type, visceral type, umbilical type, traumatic infection type and so on.

1. Pharynx type: it is the most common and harmful type. Due to the intake of a lot of sharp. grains and thicker sand cause mucosal damage and promote pathogens to invade the mucous membrane and cause infection. After the onset of the disease, the mouth of the sick pigeon shed turquoise saliva, the sac collapsed, stretched out its neck for swallowing posture, and its mouth smelled. Yellowish secretions can be seen in the pharynx and throat of pigeons, or there are obviously large button or soybean cheese-like deposits. In some diseased pigeons, a layer of needle-like lesions are evenly distributed in the whole nasopharyngeal mucosa, which hinders pigeon feeding, drinking and breathing in varying degrees. Sick pigeons often open their mouths and shake their heads, trying to throw the blockage out of their mouths-light red or yellow mucous membranes, which, like common glue, keep swinging continuously, leaving their eyes wet and weeping.

2. Visceral type: pigeons are infected by eating contaminated feed and water. Often show depression, loose feathers, loss of appetite, increased drinking water, yellow sticky water-like dysentery (like sulfur yellow, with foam), keel like knife, weight loss. With the development of the disease, Trichomonas also invades the internal tissues and organs of pigeons. Autopsy showed that in the upper digestive tract, there were small white nodules in the sac and esophagus, cheese-like objects in it, and fluid accumulation in the sac. Small gray-white nodules can also be seen on the surface of the liver and spleen. There are gray-white or dark yellow round lesions in the liver parenchyma. However, the laryngeal lesions of diphtheria (mucous membrane) pigeon pox and pigeon candidiasis are similar to this disease. The liver and spleen nodules of pigeon salmonellosis and pigeon tuberculosis are also similar to this disease and should be clearly distinguished.

3. Umbilical type: most of the pigeons had no obvious changes in the mouth and internal organs, but the lesions were only seen in and around the navel, showing a hard swelling at the initial stage, and a yellow-white caseous substance after incision. As the disease developed, the swelling gradually softened, and the incision was in the shape of light yellow mucus.

4. traumatic infection type: after the wound was infected with worms, the wound was red, swollen and inflamed, the course of the disease was longer, and the wound formed yellow crusts.

Inducing causes of Trichomonas pigeon

1. Urgent. The pigeon house is poorly designed

2. Crowded. Hatching eggs and raising chicks

3. Molting

4. Training and competition of homing pigeons

5. Lack of vitamin An and B group, accompanied by diseases, especially upper respiratory diseases.

How to treat Trichomonas pigeon

1. Symptoms of worms in the body: eating normally and losing weight for no reason.

Treatment: deworming can be treated with pigeon medicine Changchongjing tablet or levamisole hydrochloride (1 to 4 tablets). Feed on an empty stomach at night and clean up the next morning to avoid repeated infection.

2. Symptoms of coccidiosis: bloody stool, water stool (bamboo), drink more water and eat less food for no reason vomiting, emaciation, fleshy flesh, anal pollution, listlessness.

Treatment: to clean up coccidiosis, pigeon medicine can be used to kill coccidiosis in the morning and evening, or 4 tablets of penicillin can be used twice a day for 3-5 days.

3. Trichomonas symptoms: oral macula, white spots in the throat, heavy breath, nasal tumor flushing, sputum, weight loss, water stool, food loss, tiredness, loose feathers, yellow-green stool.

Treatment: clean Trichomonas with pigeon drip or metronidazole 1 tablet, twice a day for 3-5 days

4. Respiratory symptoms: red and swollen throat, cough or breathing sound, sputum, runny nose, nasal tumor flushing or black nose, tears in both eyes.

Treatment: clear the respiratory tract with pigeon medicine Huachang or Lijunsha 1x4 tablets, twice a day for 3-5 days

5. Intestinal infections caused by various bacteria: mental atrophy, loose villi, drooping wings, shrinking head and neck, lethargy with eyes closed, chills, diarrhea or excretion as thin as paste feces, villi around the anus are contaminated by feces, and some are sealed around the anus due to dry knots, affecting defecation. no, no, no. Loss of appetite, and then stop eating, most of the symptoms of softness.

Treatment: pigeon distemper or norfloxacin can be used to clear the intestines, 4 tablets twice a day for 3-5 days.

Note: after each cleaning, feed water for one day, then recuperate with liver essence or multi-dimensional electrolyte for 2-3 days, each vaccination must be about 2 weeks, do not use other drugs, so as not to affect the effect of vaccination.

Pigeon trichomoniasis is a parasitic disease that does great harm. If the pigeon suffers from this disease seriously, it usually loses its life within a week. Therefore, when it is found that the pigeon is suffering from Trichomonas disease, it must be treated in time to save the health and life of the pigeon. Take the right way and minimize the loss as much as possible. The above analysis hope to be useful for everyone, only for reference, of course, if the pigeon has a disease, the best way is to find a professional organization to consult and drug, do not rely solely on online information to decide.