Preventative maintenance!!

[tonysr09]

Was reading through the new posts. The one on asm caught my eye. Are there things one should be doing to limit the chances of developing problems disease in cages, aviaries?
Read about the snakes which helps with the mice. But what about the more mundane problems, mites and the like. Not sure I have enough knowledge to even list other problems but I'm sure some of you do.
I keep a couple of corn snakes and I disinfect there habitats weekly as well clean my hands when handling there food and I disinfect my hands when going from one snake to the other. I use Pruell on my hands and a product called OdoBan on cages and utensils, great stuff, very good disinfectant.

[nixity]

Was reading through the new posts. The one on asm caught my eye. Are there things one should be doing to limit the chances of developing problems disease in cages, aviaries?
Read about the snakes which helps with the mice. But what about the more mundane problems, mites and the like. Not sure I have enough knowledge to even list other problems but I'm sure some of you do.
I keep a couple of corn snakes and I disinfect there habitats weekly as well clean my hands when handling there food and I disinfect my hands when going from one snake to the other. I use Pruell on my hands and a product called OdoBan on cages and utensils, great stuff, very good disinfectant.

I really think the most important thing is hygiene and a good quarantine protocol.
The easiest way to bring in disease and parasites is by introducing a new bird immediately to your existing flock without quarantining first.
There are many things birds can carry without being symptomatic (coccidiosis, ASM, protozoa, ornithosis to name a few) which can easily and quickly spread through a flock if you do not quarantine and observe the bird.

Even with quarantining, sometimes these carrier pathogens will remain if you aren't actively observing them for signs that things are off or doing your own fecals on them.
I guess this is where "preventatively" or, better named, propyhlactically treating disease comes into play - namely treating for ASM and/or protozoa/coccidia on principal without a positive diagnoses.

[tonysr09]

That makes sense. I'm all for good hygiene. Unfortunately not so good on protocol. Had my first pair about a month got caught up in everything got two more but did not quarantine. Hopefully all will be well. For now 4 is the limit, no room, just the one cage. Thanks for the insight.