List of Toxic Food For Pet Birds

Listed foods in the following are toxic for your pet bird and can prove fatal in some cases.

Bird Toxic Food List

Alcohol

Onions

Caffeine

Avocado

Rhubarb

Chocolate

Fruit pits

Mushrooms

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Common Budgerigar Diseases and Their Treatment

Budgerigar most common Diseases

If budgies are provided with proper nutrition and care then they can live up to 18 years.Your bird should have a veterinary exam once a year for its good health.Here some diseases are given which are common in budgies.

Common Budgerigar Diseases

1-Scaly Face:

Symptoms:

A fungus grows on the beak, around the eyes, vent and legs of budgerigar. 

Treatment:

This disease can be treated by covering with some lotion or oily material (Vaseline or similar). Its occurrence may be stopped by using one drop of ivermectin on the back of neck each year.

2-Canker of the Throat:

Symptoms:

Budgies wouldn't eat anything, Stretching of neck upwards hard to breath,cheesy deposits in throat.

Treatment:

Emtryl; 5 g per 5 liters of water and use it for 10 days.Make fresh after 4 days because it losses its effectiveness. Ronivet or sparmix as directed.

3-Sour Crop:

Symptoms:

Causes vomiting and throwing up seeds.

Treatment:

Condes crystals; mix the solution in water and dilute it to obtain a light pink color.Use this solution for 10 days. Condes crystal are poisonous.

4-Warms:

Symptoms:

Weakness and severe loss of condition of budgerigar, lower production and diarrhoea.

Treatment:

Nilverm or aviverm 3% solution in water 10/12ml in a litre of water or according to the instructions given by manufacturer. After 28 days give second dose. 

5-Enteritis:

Symptoms: 

Stained green around the vent area.It is a milder type.

Treatment:

terramycin; half gram per liter of water.Treat for about 10 days. Biomav B 1 level teaspoon for 100 ml of water.

6-Psittacosis:

Symptoms:

The disease can damage several body/organ systems.Birds may cough, sneeze or wheeze.Bird becomes sick rapidly and may appear fluffed up, lose interest in food, and become thin and weak. 

Treatment:

Oxymav B, use as directed according to the strength of the disease.

7-Red mite and bird lice:

Treatment:

Invermectin; using a drop once a year at the back of the neck will protect the bird.Specific kinds of sprays may be used.

8-Air Sack mite:

Symptoms:

Asthma type wheeze.

Treatment:

Cover the cage of bird with some cloth with bird in it. Now spray with Pea Beau or Mortine or some other spray of similar kind.Keep the cage covered for 10 seconds.  

9-French moult:

Symptoms:

Chicks are unable to grow their feathers.

Treatment:

Taking a little care is the best option to avoid the disease.

Clean the living place of the bird with a solution containing sodium hypochlorite. By using this cleaner 95% prevention of the disease can be achieved.

10-Megabacteria Avian Gastric Yeast:

Symptoms:

Diarrhoea weight loss fluffy & quiet.

Treatment:

Can be controlled with citric acid using 5 gm in 5 liters of water. Also citrus fruit may be used. 

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New Castle Disease Common Causes, Spread, Disease Symptoms And Treatment

New Castle Disease

New Castle Disease or RD(Ranikhet Disease) is a transmittable disease in birds which is common in many domestic and wild species of the birds.It can also affect human beings.It is most severe and fast spreading disease that can be seen from 6th to 7th day onward up to 72 weeks. It may appear anytime in the year but more commonly in summer.

Causes: 

 It spreads due to a virus called paramyxovirus. These viruses have a different types, some are more harmful and causes severe attack on the birds while some are mildly harmful.

Spreading:

This virus spreads through air, infections is mainly through inhalation or ingestion and may spread by contaminated food and water supply.

Symptoms:

The symptoms of this disease depends upon the power of attacking virus.

Mildly harmful virus:

 Not causes any disease but may be little respiratory discomfort.

Moderately Harmful Viruses:

These viruses cause an intense respiratory disease and its symptoms.But loss of life is lower in the case of such virus.

Strongly harmful viruses:

In this case sudden death of the birds may take place. Following are the symptoms..

Depression, weakness, green diarrhea,lying down, face swelling, and nervous signs may appear which than ends in death.

Also twisting of neck, curved shape of the body and paralysis of the legs may occur.

In the kids mortality is 100%. While in the layers earlier the eggs will be soft-shelled and later stoppage of the egg laying. 

Treatment:

Their is no treatment once the infection occurred.     

Precautionary Measures:

Initial vaccination with inactivated vaccine is the only way to protect the birds from New Castle Disease.

Although New Castle Disease can not be protected only with vaccination in case of field conditions.It must therefore be assisted by good hygiene, good care, and good bio security practices.

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