If you are an owner of the feathery friend, then have to show him in the preventive purposes to the expert (ornithologist) at least once a year. However most often we ask for the help, only when the bird is already sick. How to learn what happens to the favourite before arrival of the doctor? Indicators of an illness of a parrot are the appearance and behavior. Several typical symptoms of a disease are given below.
Instruction
1. The bird is a lot of or almost all the time sleeps, does not play, does not clean plumelets. The inflamed eyes, cold, sneezing say that the bird caught a cold. What should I do: warm under a lamp, temperature needs to be maintained at the level of 30 – 35 degrees. However pay attention to that one party of a cage was shaded. The bird has to have an opportunity to take cover if becomes hot. Almost all simple diseases of birds are treated by warming up at the beginning.
2. Faltering breath. The bird pants or snuffles a nose in spite of the fact that externally looks almost healthy. Most likely, the disease already passed into a chronic form. What should I do: it is necessary to show urgently to the doctor, the diagnosis can be made only at more thorough inspection.
3. If sitting on a pole, the bird holds a tail perpendicular to a floor - it is very disturbing signal. Similar symptoms can speak about problems with lungs.
4. You noticed that the parrot began to drink much. Problems with digestive tract and kidneys are followed by similar problems. One more of signs of inflammation of digestive tract is the diarrhea. At an indisposition such parrot can long sit on a cage floor, from an active and joyful bird will turn into passive and sad. What to do: to give camomile infusion, to transfer to a digestible forage, to put a lamp near a cage (it is desirable infrared).
5. On pads there were outgrowths, joints are inflamed, reddenings and small wounds – defeat by a tick or a bacterial infection.