What if budgerigar has diarrhea?

Budgerigar originated in eastern Australia, after artificial breeding, has become a worldwide caged bird, with high ornamental value, deeply loved by people, although budgerigar is not easy to get sick, but occasionally diarrhea occurs, let's take a look at budgerigar diarrhea how to do!

What about the parrot's diarrhea?

1. Budgerigar infected with chlamydia will have diarrhea. At the same time, it is accompanied by mental fatigue, decreased diet, viscous purulent secretions in the eyes and nose, dehydration, weight loss and other symptoms. To this end, breeders can be treated with penicillin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline antibiotics. If it is a large area of budgerigar infected with this disease, you can add 0.4 grams of chlortetracycline or oxytetracycline per kilogram of feed, stir evenly and feed continuously for 1 to 3 weeks, the therapeutic effect is very obvious.

2. When you are uncertain about the disease the parrot suffers from. Breeders can first feed it some garlic water, and then put it in the cage, it should be noted that the birdcage needs to be kept warm and ventilated. Insist on recuperating the body of the budgerigar for 1-2 days and monitoring its physical condition. If diarrhea is not alleviated, you can give it an appropriate amount of oxytetracycline, 1/4 oxytetracycline in drinking water, glucose powder in bird food, and so on. Moreover, a veterinarian should be called in at this time to diagnose the budgerigar and then carry out the next step of treatment.

Common nutritional diseases of budgerigar

1. Obesity

[etiology] due to long-term excessive feeding of greasy feed and lack of exercise. It is caused by the accumulation of too much fat in birds. How to judge whether the bird is too fat? You can hold the bird, blow with your mouth and blow the feathers off its belly to see if the yellow fat under its skin has accumulated. Overweight birds have a round belly, hoarse calls and sudden death during flying or jumping!

[prevention] reduce oily feed and control the total amount of feed. So that every job will have a short period of hunger. Increase the amount of exercise and the time of activity.

2. Feather pecking (non-bacterial or psychological)

[etiology] due to the lack of essential amino acids, salt, minerals, vitamins and so on. Or there is not enough breeding space, several birds huddled together, will cause mutual pecking, as a result, feathers are pecked off, the appearance is very ugly.

[prevention] reduce feeding density, add sulfur protein or add a small amount of natural gypsum to the feed or mix a small amount of feather powder.

Respiratory disease of budgerigar

1. A cold

[etiology] it is mainly caused by wind-cold, and recent studies have found that it can be caused by viruses. Sick birds appear depressed, standing on the perch, shortness of breath, feathers against the stand, seriously ill nostrils will be blocked by mucus and open mouth to breathe.

[prevention and control] first put the sick birds in a warm place to avoid blowing. Add egg yolk powder to the feed of sick birds, add long-acting sulfonamide in potable water, add 10 tablets for every 10 milliliters of drinking water, change twice a day. If the nostrils are stuffed, you can use toilet paper to twist slime into the nostrils, and insert some vegetable oil into the nostrils with paper strips to make it breathe smoothly.

2. Pneumonia

[etiology] not paying attention to heat preservation and timely treatment after suffering from a cold, or being attacked by wind and cold for a long time, will make birds suffer from pneumonia. The sick bird looks dull, often puts its head under its wings, its feathers stand against it, and its body is in the shape of a ball. Shortness of breath, body ups and downs with breathing, no appetite, high mortality!

[prevention and control] try to move the sick bird to a warm place away from the light, and pay attention to keep the sick bird warm. Give 25% glucose water 0.5 ml at a time. Add 2mg of oxytetracycline to glucose water twice a day for 5 days to complete a course of treatment. If it is detected and treated early, it can be cured.

Digestive tract disease of budgerigar

1. Enteritis

[etiology] caused by unclean feed or drinking water. General illness will appear after the spirit of malaise, when defecation-like, feces sticky and will stick near the anus. In severe cases, there will be hematochezia, and the sick birds will lose weight quickly.

[prevention] pay attention to the cleanliness of daily feed and drinking water. Feed and drinking water should be replaced every day, and food containers and water containers should be cleaned every day. Drinking water using boiled or purified water, do not directly use faucet water. Move the sick bird to a warm place and pay attention to keep the sick bird warm. Feed 25% glucose water and add a small grain of salt to glucose water, 0.5 ml ~ 1 ml twice a day. Newly ill birds can add 10 mg of medicinal carbon tablet powder to sugar water, and seriously ill birds should add 0.2 mg of dysentery. After 3 days of continuous feeding, if the sick birds can drink water by themselves, double the amount of the above two drugs into the water container. The medicated water should be changed twice a day and often stirred to reduce the precipitation of the drug. You can also feed sick birds a small amount of minced garlic to treat enteritis two to three times a day. Using black tea instead of drinking water in summer can also reduce the incidence of digestive tract diseases.

2. Food stagnation

[etiology] due to the interruption of drinking water, the coarse and dry meal ate too much, so that the feed stagnated in the crop. Or when the birds are fed manually, they do not notice that there is still residual feed in the crop, and then feed it with new feed, which leads to the deterioration and hardening of the residual feed. All sick birds will have a swollen crop, loss of appetite and dull expression. Severe disease or delay for too long can make sick birds die!

[prevention and treatment] light people can use vegetable oil to drop into the crop and massage the crop downward with hands to soften the food and enter the digestive tract. Severe cases can be treated by gastric lavage. Slowly insert the medicinal rubber hose into the crop, connect the other end with a needle bucket filled with diluted artificial salt solution, slowly inject salt water, and then extract the liquid mixed with undigested substances. Repeat the steps until there is no residue in the extracted liquid. Then 2 ml of glucose water was injected to replenish the wastage of the sick bird.

3. Constipation

[etiology] such as long-term lack of fatty feed, fruits and vegetables or interruption of drinking water and other reasons, will cause bird constipation. Sick birds will have dry and hard faeces before the disease, with loose feathers, restlessness and defecation, but no fecal discharge.

Pay attention to giving birds a balanced diet every day. If you find the onset of constipation, you can directly pour 4-5 drops of vegetable oil or artificial salt solution. If the condition is serious, use an eyedropper to insert the anus of the sick bird into the anus of the sick bird than sesame oil for enema.