Prevention and treatment of hard crop disease of pigeon with enlarged crop and hard appetite

Hard crop disease, also known as crop obstruction, crop stagnation, is one of the common crop diseases of pigeons.

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1. Causes: pigeon hunger, overeating roughage or moldy feed, such as spoiled bean cakes, beans; lack of drinking water, lack of health care sand or sand; ingestion of indigestible foreign bodies blocking the crop; suffering from some diseases, such as gastroenteritis, acute infectious diseases, etc., can also cause hard crop disease.

two。 Symptoms: the disease occurs frequently in squab and child pigeons. The sick pigeon has a loss of appetite, a swollen crop, a hard and strong mouth, sticky saliva and sour breath. Sick pigeons lie restless, open mouth to breathe, shake their heads, feces are not formed or constipation. The sick pigeon was in pain, gradually lost weight, and finally died of crop fester or suffocation.

3. Prevention and treatment: in prevention, pay attention to feed collocation, do not let pigeons overeat after hunger, feed pigeons at least many times in feeding management; do not feed seeds with thorns, put an end to mildew feed.

Such as pigeon crop drooping, can be filled with oil, such as vegetable oil, and gently massage. Then lift the pigeon, tail up, head down, gently press the crop, and gradually discharge the contents. Sick pigeons can be infused with 2% salt water, soda water, etc., or rinse the crop repeatedly with 0.2% potassium permanganate solution to discharge the contents. They were then imprisoned, fasted for a day, and given antibiotics, digestive drugs such as yeast tablets or 1-2 tablets of lactase and multivitamins.

(1) traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Available below: 10 grams of Fructus Aurantii, 8 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 4 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 3 grams of green skin, 8 grams of Poria cocos, 4 grams of malt, 4 grams of grain malt, 3 grams of licorice. Fried water for 10 pigeons.

(2) surgical treatment. If the crop is blocked by a foreign body, a crop incision can be performed to remove the foreign body. Pluck the feathers from the crop, disinfect them with 5% iodine tincture, and then deiodinate with 75% alcohol. At 1 stroke 3 on the crop, avoid the blood vessels and cut the crop bark 0.5~1cm. Take out the contents, wash the crop repeatedly, drop 8-100000 IU of gentamicin or 1-100000 IU of kanamycin, and then suture the crop. The knife edge is disinfected with 5% iodine tincture or iodine cheese copper solution, or sulfonamide ointment can be applied externally. After operation, stop eating for 1 to 2 days, and then feed with digestible feed, but don't be too full. The stitches were removed in 5 days, and the pigeons returned to normal food intake in 7 days. In order to prevent bacterial infection, 120000 units of oxytetracycline were given twice a day after operation.