Upon purchase of a parrot it is very important to choose a healthy individual. Such bird at the correct leaving will long please you with beautiful plumage, cheerful chatter and good mood.
Instruction
1. Buy parrots whenever possible from the proved manufacturers, in nursery or pet-shop. There birds receive necessary care and veterinary service. It is undesirable to buy birds in the market from dealers. Usually in such points of sale do not watch over their health. Ask for the seller the veterinary certificate of check of a parrot on salmonellosis and ornithosis. If you buy the brought parrot, then demand the documents SITES confirming his origin.
2. See to behavior of a parrot. The bird should not be sluggish, sleepy. The healthy parrot does not sit long separately from neighbors in a cage ruffled up, does not fall asleep in a feeding trough. Movements at a parrot free, he actively moves in a cage. His tail does not move to a breath step, the bird does not limp. Pay attention to the parrots, next on a cage, – they have to be healthy too.
3. Consider plumage of a bird. At a healthy parrot feathers clean, well-groomed, densely pressed, without traces of a samooshchip, bald spots and down inserts.
4. Take a closer look at a beak and a voskovitsa of a parrot. The beak has to be clean, brilliant, without cracks, chips and outgrowths. Nostrils at a healthy bird without crusts and allocations. The feathery pet through nostrils, but not through a beak breathes. The parrot should not pull often the head, yawn and sneeze.
5. Consider eyes of a bird. They have to have accurate rounded shape. Eyes at parrots shining, not sunk down and not edematous, clean, without allocations. The eyelids which did not stick.
6. Study paws of a parrot. If they with outgrowths, consolidations, with the injured skin or the swelled joints, then the bird is sick. Fingers of a parrot perfectly clasp a pole. If the bird sits on one paw, the second has to be compressed in a cam.
7. Pay attention to that the parrot had a dung in the normal state, without diarrhea. The area of a foul place should not be soiled by excrements. At the same time the paunch is pulled a little in and does not hang down.