Discerning pigeon disease with discerning eyes

Look at the poor mental state of sick pigeons, do not like activities, be alone from the group, eat or not eat, lose weight, loose feathers, eyes, breathing faster, wheezing or making abnormal sounds from the throat and trachea, drinking water or not feeding young pigeons.

Look at pigeons with bird plague, paratyphoid, ophthalmitis, mycosis and vitamin A deficiency, red, inflamed eyes and increased secretions; conjunctival flushing and vasodilation in patients with conjunctivitis; conjunctival cyanosis (purplish blue) when suffering from erysipelas or pneumonia; conjunctival pallor in anemia or malnutrition; pupils dilated and mouth dry in organophosphorus pesticide poisoning.

Look at the nose tumor healthy pigeon nose tumor is bright, white, and clean. Such as nose tumor dirty damp, white decline, color dark talk, mostly for colds, bird plague, paratyphoid and respiratory diseases and so on.

Check the mouth such as mouth, throat flushing, ulcers or yellow-white pseudomembrane, it is pharyngitis, trichomoniasis, thrush or diphtheria pigeon pox; mouth has millet-sized gray nodules, is vitamin A deficiency; when suffering from soft crop disease, the mouth exhales sour and foul-smelling gas.

Check whether the crop has shrunk after 3 hours of feeding. If it is swollen and solid, you may suffer from hard crop disease; if you refuse to eat and the pouch is full, soft and fluctuating, and a large amount of sour liquid comes out of your mouth when you lift it upside down, it may be suspected to be soft crop disease.

When breathing suffers from laryngotracheitis, bronchopneumonia, mycosis, trichomoniasis, sneezing, runny nose, cough and "purr" sound; when suffering from severe necrotizing pneumonia, the sick pigeon opens its mouth to breathe and exhale foul-smelling gas.

Look at skin pneumonia, nitrite poisoning, bird plague, erysipelas and blood hypoxia, the skin is purple-black. Touch the skin of the chest on the inside of the wings with your hands. High skin temperature is a sign of fever, while low skin temperature is a sign of deficiency cold syndrome or endangered blood gas deficiency.

Touch the abdomen from the end of the sternum to gently massage the abdomen in the direction of the pubic bone, such as constipation, you can touch the granular feces the size of soybeans in the intestine; hepatitis or liver cirrhosis can touch the liver too large or hard; abdominal distension and prolapse, hands feel soft and fluctuating, it's peritonitis.

Look at the anus suffering from gastroenteritis, ulcerative enteritis, paratyphoid, around the anus is more contaminated by feces, with the hand to open the anus, you can see cloacal congestion or bleeding points.

Look at the feces of healthy pigeons, which are gray-yellow, brown-yellow or gray-black, with white matter attached at the end. When suffering from indigestion or enteritis, @ # @ 247 soft feces are excreted; granular faeces are excreted when fever, constipation or lack of water; fleshy faeces can be excreted when intestinal parasitic diseases are affected; feces with white and red mucus are hemorrhagic enteritis or coccidiosis; black feces may be bleeding in the front of the stomach or small intestine.