preventive care when buy new birds?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:04 pm
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.
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.