preventive care when buy new birds?

[zebsoc]

Besides quarantine, what do people do to help prevent bringing a disease or mites/lice/etc. Into one's own flock when buying new birds? (And home)

Any general preventative treatment of birds while in quarantine that is good to do? 

Since my home is kept at about 80 degrees year round due to health, anything brought in is more likely to incubate/increase and spread rapidly. 
And if I buy from spring through fall the temperatures in my area can get quite high. In the 90s in spring and 100s in summer, so birds kept outside will be in these temperatures regardly which can produce and spread abundant parasites and disease. 

Any birds I should avoid because they don't do well in warm indoors climate year round?

Both of my males that I bought 6 months ago died.
Their symptoms seemed similar.
Squeaky the female zebra that shared the cage with them seems healthy.
Don't know if it was stress related, if she is a carrier of something, or cage tho cleaned still had something from first male who was sick from the beginning.
So far birds in other cage seem ok.
Makes me a bit concerned when getting new birds since very sad when birds die.

What to do to help all be healthy. Want to enjoy my birds not be stressed with sick and dying birds.
Online a lot about parasites problems and they did have some feather loss.
Don't see any obvious feather loss on the rest tho.

[Sally]

Once birds come home with me, they will go into a quarantine cage. For the first 4-5 days, I will put NV powder in the water. I offer this water in my normal tube waterers and also in a small dish, in case the birds aren't used to my tubes. This is an electrolyte powder meant to help the birds deal with stress.

I will give each bird a drop of SCATT (I put it on an inner thigh), and I will usually worm them as well. I am often buying imports or birds that have been fed live food, so they could have been exposed. Also, if I know birds came from an outdoor aviary, I will worm them.

Other than that, I do no preventative medicating, as I don't believe in it. I will offer a heat lamp if I feel a bird is stressed, and I will observe them not only for illness, but to make sure they are eating and drinking.

Unfortunately, sometimes birds that appear healthy at time of sale/shipping will fail due to the stress of moving/marts/shipping/whatever, it is just how it is. Not your fault, not the breeder's fault, it happens.

[zebsoc]

Sally thank you.
Would it be possible to provide a link for the:
NV powder (not sure what it is)?
And also for the Scatt and deworming you use.
I'm new to this and haven't used any of these items before.

Links from Amazon, PetSmart or Petco?

[Sally]

zebsoc

NV powder is one of Dr. Marshall's products
Scatt is Vetafarm product
Wormaway is Morning Bird product

Laraine McGinnis of ladygouldian.com carries all these products, as does Terri at glamgouldians.com and many other online vendors.

https://ladygouldian.com/NV-Powder
https://ladygouldian.com/Scatt-air-sac-mite-control
https://ladygouldian.com/Morning-Bird-Worm-Away

Since you are in California, you might want to look into www.ladygouldianfinch.com, which is based in that state. Might save some on shipping.

[zebsoc]

Sally thank you so much for the links.
Great that they are in my state, always nice when items ordered don't take a long time to arrive.