Canary skin disease

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Canary skin disease

Post by vinaykumarbopp » Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:38 am

Hi ,

I have a male orange canary which had severe scaly leg mites with white lump formed on both legs . I treated it with scatt nd antibiotics and also used baby oil which mafe all the white lump to fall off .

But now I noticed the flakes of skin is falling off from body . please check image and let me know what to do now
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Re: Canary skin disease

Post by monotwine » Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:46 am

Sorry never seen anything like that.

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Re: Canary skin disease

Post by vinaykumarbopp » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:45 am

I think it was mites that were present in skin. After treating with scatt for two doses on the row ..now all the yellow flakes are gone and bird looks fresh :-) ..it has started to molt wright away and new feathers are coming :-)
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Re: Canary skin disease

Post by lovezebs » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:29 am

vinaykumarbopp

Well, that's good news.
Do you offer your birds daily baths?
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Re: Canary skin disease

Post by vinaykumarbopp » Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:20 am

lovezebs hi yes I do offer daily baths to my canaries
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