Now the budgerigar is the bird who is most extended for the contents in the apartment. This animal very sociable and friendly therefore perfectly gets on with the owners. It is quite simple to look after him, but even ideal conditions of contents do not guarantee protection against various diseases.
Some facts about budgerigars
Budgerigar – a bird small. In length he reaches about twenty centimeters, and only forty five grams weigh. Adult individuals have a specific step form a long tail. At a young animal it is slightly shorter.
These birdies most often have a green or yellow color of feathers. Rather recently selection brought animals with egg-yellow, white and blue plumage.
On a back and wings the parrots of this look have dark wavy strips. Thanks to them the bird received such name. On the line head are also available, but they are thin and frequent. Eyes of budgerigars dark blue, sometimes with a white or yellowish iris of the eye. A beak at them powerful and curved, at young birds it dark, and at adults – yellow. Color of a voskovitsa helps to define a sex of an animal. At adult females it brown, at young people – blue. As for males, at young growth it violet, and at parrots of "respectable age" - blue.
Diseases of budgerigars
Among noncontagious diseases of budgerigars the self-deplumation is quite widespread. The stress and also a fright, infection with parasites, dry air or banal boredom happens the reason for that most often. If the disease lasts long very much, the bird can lose completely feathers, and in the started state it is almost impossible to cure an animal. Also locks and obesity often meet at birds of this look. Excess weight appears at plentiful feeding of an animal Pancake week seeds and food of animal origin. Problems with an excrement are a consequence of obesity. Also infection with parasites can become the reason of a lock. To save a budgerigar from this problem, it is necessary to enter to him into an anus couple of drops of vegetable oil (by means of the pipette) and also to force to accept four drops of castor oil. The most widespread infectious disease among parrots is salmonellosis (paratyphoid). Causes its violation of conditions of hygiene of feeding and contents because of what the resilience of an organism of an animal becomes less. For treatment powder which carries the name sulfapiridazin, as a rule, is appointed. Also those who are suffering from tuberculosis often occur among budgerigars. Infection occurs through the infected forage or airways. The animal loses weight, slabnt, coughs and yawns. As it is sad, but this disease at this look is not treated. The sick bird is liable to destruction. In addition, the budgerigar can be infected with worms. It is often promoted by a dirty cage and food. If you had though the slightest suspicions that your favourite has helminthosis, it is necessary to show it to the veterinarian. Only the expert will be able to prescribe those medicines which will suit your animal and will not do him harm. Biting lice – one more misfortune among birds. These are parasites who eat down, blood and scales of skin of parrots. The animal becomes tousled, sleeps badly and eats. The pyrethrum made of a camomile is applied to treatment, and the cage is processed special medicines and boiled water.