The cause of diseases budgerigars can have Knemidokoptes pincers. The tiny tick usually lodges in the top layers of epidermis of skin of a parrot around eyes, a beak, paws and a foul place of a bird. Some ticks are capable to cause in an animal a severe itch and also spongy growths on a muzzle and paws of a parrot.
Instruction
1. In pet-shops and special veterinary pharmacies there is a wide choice of various means on fight both against a tick, and against parasites in general. However it is necessary to be extremely attentive when choosing medicine as many means are toxic for birds and can cause allergic reaction or even poisoning.
2. Experts recommend to buy as remedy against a tick aversektinovy ointment. It is possible to carry the low cost, usability, the rare number of procedures and also minimal risk of emergence of allergic reaction at a bird at the correct application to advantage of this medicine.
3. Aversektinovy ointment should be applied on the places struck with a tick by means of a Q-tip with very thin layer. It is necessary to avoid hit of means in eyes, nostrils, a beak and on plumage of a parrot. The procedure is repeated every five days and, as a rule, four procedures for an absolute recovery are enough. It is better to use ointment when the bird is less active or is in somnolence.
4. If in your region it is difficult to buy this ointment, you should not be upset. Available vaseline oil which it is necessary to process the sites struck with a tick will serve as good replacement. Vaseline oil is capable to block oxygen access to a tick, thereby promoting his destruction.
5. However oil cannot make impact on eggs of pincers therefore the disease recurrence is quite possible. For the same reason treatment by vaseline oil takes much more time. Oil is usually applied twice a day up to an absolute recovery. It is done the same accurately, as well as with aversektinovy ointment. At strongly started stages of a disease it is necessary to use aversektinovy ointment nevertheless.