How to treat a sick parrot

How to treat a sick parrot

To cure a sick parrot, it is necessary to define at first, than he is ill. Only the doctor after survey and carrying out necessary analyses can make the exact diagnosis. If you did not manage to find the qualified specialist, it is necessary to cope.

It is required to you

  • - glow lamp or infrared lamp;
  • - camomile pharmaceutical flowers;
  • - honey;
  • - Vety;
  • - "Линекс";
  • - Bifidumbakterin;
  • - Neostomozan (or "Butoks");
  • - aversektinovy ointment.

Instruction

1. The banal stress can be the reason of abnormal behavior of a bird (refusal of food, deplumation of feathers and so on). It arises not only in transit birds to the new house or change in other cage, but also, for example, at a strong fright, sharp change of a diet, insufficient physical activity, violation of temperature condition in the room.

2. To save a parrot from a stress, it is necessary to allow a bird to calm down. For this purpose within several days keep out of a cell of small children and pets, try not to do sharp movements in sight of a parrot, do not raise the voice in the room where it is. Adjust light day. In the summer the bird has to be in well lit room not less than 12 hours, in the winter – not less than 9 hours. If parrots have no problems with a chair, can treat it with something tasty: fresh branches of trees or chumizy.

3. The set of diseases is capable to cause improper feeding. If you noticed that the bird began to eat less, has problems with defecation or the dung became too liquid, changed color, try to reduce amount of fruit, vegetables and greens in a diet. It is in certain cases recommended to remove vitamin food from the menu at all, having left only water and a grain forage. Try to calculate that led to disorder of digestion: this product needs to be excluded immediately from a diet forever.

4. In some cases the grain forage becomes an etiology. It can be dirty, dusty, mouldy, rancid or contain excrement of rodents, larvae of insects. Every time before filling a new portion of a forage I will scare, look through grains. They should not smell, to be anything clean, without foreign inclusions. Emergence of hardly noticeable spider line on walls banks or grains – a serious occasion to throw out all forage and to buy a new pack. In shop always you look at an expiration date. The stern in tight packages as grains in a cardboard box can be infected is better to buy.

5. The sick bird sits, having ruffled up, does not draw in one paw during sleep, loses interest in food, is less active (does not play and almost does not fly). Sometimes it is possible to notice the complicated breath and some external signs (lack of feathers, emergence of outgrowths on a beak or skin under feathers). If you noticed something from listed, provide to a bird absolute rest. If you have several parrots, the patient should be settled out in separate, carefully disinfected, a cage. Near a cage put the glow lamp or an infrared lamp. On forget to shade one of cage corners where the parrot if becomes him too hot can leave.

6. Treatment of parrots often demands drug intake. They can be mixed with a forage or to dissolve in water which you pour in a drinking bowl. If the parrot refuses food and water, it is necessary to dig in medicine in a beak from the pipette.

7. Fine antiseptic is camomile infusion. Add 2 teaspoons of dry flowers of a camomile (it is possible to buy in usual pharmacy) to a glass of boiled water, wrap up in a towel and insist 10-15 minutes. Then let's solution cool down and pour in a drinking bowl to a bird. Remember that it is necessary to change such drink several times a day. Fine medicine and a source of easily acquired carbohydrates medical 2-3 drops of honey need to be dissolved in warm water and to add to a drinking bowl.

8. In veterinary pharmacies the means checked by many manufacturers for treatment and prevention of diseases of parrots are on sale. The medicine "Vetom" is a probiotic. It is given to birds with diarrhea, viral and bacterial infections and also at cold. Within 10 days to usual water to a drinking bowl it is added Vety: on 50 ml of water it is necessary the fifth part of a teaspoon of medicine.

9. One more effective probiotic is Bifidumbakterin. It helps to cope with digestive tract diseases at parrots and also with cold. "Линекс" is medicine for treatment and prevention of dysbacteriosis. Within 7-10 days the bird should add contents of capsules to a forage. Before giving to a bird, any of these and other medicines, attentively read the instruction, check an expiration date and surely observe the recommended dosage.

10. One of the most widespread diseases at parrots is knemidokoptoz – damage of a beak, a voskovitsa and pads a tick. The parrot has outgrowths which increase over time. It can lead to the fast and painful death of a bird. During treatment of a knemidokoptoz the bird is not let out from a cage which was previously disinfected Neostomozan or Butoks (1 ampoule gets divorced in 1 liter of water). For treatment of a bird it is necessary to use aversektinovy ointment. By means of a Q-tip, ointment is applied on the places of 1 times struck with a tick in 5 days. The course of treatment lasts until even the slightest manifestations of a disease disappear. If the case of a knemidokoptoz started, then processing are made more often.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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