When you bring home a bird, someone will always remind you: pay attention to mosquito prevention, and when walking the birds, you will also be reminded: wear a good shroud, on the one hand, to prevent fright, on the other hand, to prevent mosquitoes and flies hanging in the woods.
There will also be some bird friends who find that their birds are well raised, the mouth and head have been defeated, and ringworm lesions have occurred, in fact, bird skin diseases are often infected for two reasons, on the one hand, mosquito bites and on the other hand, health is unqualified. So what are the consequences of mosquito bites? What is the common head feathering "bird crown ringworm" in domestic birds? What are the consequences of avian crown ringworm? What are the precautions for prevention and treatment in the family? Today, Xiaobian will teach you by hand: what is the ornamental bird crown ringworm, and how to deal with it in the family.
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There may be a misconception about bird crown ringworm: it is believed that the crown of chickens in poultry will suffer from bird crown ringworm. In fact, no, bird crown ringworm is not only present in poultry, but also infectious to various ornamental birds. The cause of avian crown ringworm is a fungal skin disease caused by the fungal ringworm fungus, and this disease is highly contagious in birds and bird-to-human transmission.
Judgment of bird crest ringworm
The most direct manifestation of bird's crown ringworm is the shedding of feathers on the bird's head, the appearance of yellow-white scaly ringworm, which then extends along the lesion to other areas of the head, but this ringworm generally does not spread to the body. If your bird has a ringworm lesion on its head that has not spread to the body, it is possible that you are infected with Bird Hairy Ringworm.
What are the manifestations and consequences of birds with crested ringworm
When a bird is infected with crested ringworm, the initial stage is the appearance of white or gray-yellow patches or papules near the feathers near the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, forming phosphorus chips. At this time, if no control measures are taken, the area of bird feather shedding will become larger and larger in the short term, the phosphorus chips will increase, and the thickness will eventually form scabs.
At this time, the bird began to feel obvious pain and itching, causing restlessness and lack of energy. If the condition continues to progress, symptoms such as anemia, jaundice, and weight loss will occur.
In severe cases, the lesions spread to the bird's respiratory tract and upper gastrointestinal tract, and is the only one that can be fatal. Moreover, there will be high contagiousness, often a bird is sick, and the germ will spread to the human body or other birds with feather dust, spreading in a large area. So even if there are two caged birds, one disease may spread to the other and affect the health of the family. Therefore, birds with avian crown ringworm must kill this disease in the initial stage and find it in time for treatment.
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Why do parrots who have never been out of the house get ringworm? How did bird's crown ringworm find its own door? Here we have to mention the two routes of infection of avian crown ringworm: trauma or mosquito bites.
High incidence season: The rainy season such as summer and autumn and humid climate are the high incidence period of this disease and are easy to spread.
Causes of trauma: Parrots and other concentrated, paired ornamental birds cause head skin trauma during daily fighting, if the environmental hygiene is poor at this time, the trauma site is easy to breed avian tinea fungus, or new birds appear to hit the cage and other phenomena to injure the head, may also cause infection.
Mosquito bites: Mosquito bites are the main transmission route of bird crown ringworm, if you are bitten by mosquitoes when walking birds in the summer, you may bring the pathogen back indoors, and after the indoor mosquito bites the diseased bird, it may spread the disease to other individuals such as people and cats and dogs.
Now that the weather is warming up, and it is about to be the high season for avian crown ringworm, we understand the infection and transmission route of this disease, and we can prevent the occurrence of this disease to the greatest extent. What if the unfortunate family bird is infected with crested ringworm? Don't worry, the next step is to teach you how to deal with it in your families, even if the disease is eliminated.
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When a loved bird is found to be infected with the disease in the family, the first and most important thing to do is not to treat, but to isolate immediately. The isolation here not only refers to the cage feeding, it is best to put the sick bird in a separate space, while the cage and the environment are disinfected daily with conventional disinfectant to ensure that the environment is ventilated and sunny. The reason why it is strictly isolated is because this pathogen is highly contagious, especially for the elderly and infants and young children with low immunity.
Home treatment of avian coronitis: a local treatment
Step 1: Clean the surface of the affected skin with soapy water, and in severe cases, use a soft brush to brush off phosphorus chips and dirt on the surface.
Step 2: Drug selection The following drugs are commonly used in pharmacies, 1. iodine glycerol; 2. calomel ointment; 3. formalin ointment; choose one of the three drugs and apply it to the affected area twice a day. Apply three times in severe cases.
According to the above method, under normal circumstances, the spread of the affected area can be effectively prevented within 2 days, and the skin papules will disappear within 1 week, and the original skin color will be restored, and then quietly wait for the long hair to heal.
For severely ill birds, it is difficult for families to take effective measures to treat, the aviary usually treats for 15 days and there is no effective improvement, and the diseased birds that continue to spread are eliminated.
Some species in the family are high-incidence groups of bird crest ringworm: these include a variety of parrots, birds with shorter beaks. Especially embroidered bird, embroidery eye habit of sticking the head into the water tank to bathe, easy to appear "eye circles" phenomenon, easy to be ignored in the early stage, inexperienced owners may mistake the bird crown rings for eye rings.
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Although avian crown ringworm is terrible for birds, as long as you pay attention to hygiene and mosquito prevention in the family, you can effectively prevent infection. The owner should pay attention to the following:
Disinfection of cages in summer: the role of spare cages. Family birds must be equipped with a spare cage, the role of the spare cage is that when the other cage is cleaned, the birds can stay. Spare cages are also commonly used to bathe birds. Because if you take a bath in the original cage, the cage is damp, coupled with the warm temperature, it is very easy to breed germs. In the summer, the tray of the family bird viewing bird should be cleaned every day, which can be cleaned once in the morning and once in the evening, rinsed with clean water, brushed off the feces, and dried or dried.
Food tanks and water tanks are cleaned daily. Especially for birds that need wet food plates such as embroidery eyes, larks, and indigo chins, the food tank water tank should be replaced with a new one, and the water source should be ensured to be clean every day, otherwise after the water source breeds bacteria, it is easy to suffer from skin diseases as the birds bathe.
Shrouded effect. If you place birds on the balcony at night, be sure to cover them to prevent mosquito bites. In the process of walking birds, it is inevitable that the birds will be hung on the trees or grasses and other mosquitoes nearby, at this time do not open the shroud, to confirm that the number of mosquitoes is not much and then open the cage, the owner of the heart will guard the bird cage to help the birds drive away mosquitoes.
Avoid going to the riverside grass. Riverside grass is the place with the most mosquitoes, you should avoid this area when walking birds, and you should also place a mosquito repellent sachet on the cage in time to prevent mosquitoes from approaching to the greatest extent.
Earth worms should be eaten with caution. The so-called soil insects are watermelon worms, earthworms, insects and soft body insects that live in the soil, most of the soil insects carry bacteria, so it is not recommended to feed the soil insects dug up in the wild. If you feed earthworms in the wild soil, you will generally soak them in water, excrete the substances in the body and give them to the birds to eat. It is best to choose red earthworms fed to fish, wood worms, bread worms, etc. as meat ingredients.
For small parrots such as tiger parrots raised in the family, it is also necessary to prepare an additional cage to facilitate the timely removal of sick birds injured due to play for isolation treatment, and the cage can be placed in a position where the sun can be directly exposed for about 1 hour every day, and sunlight and ventilation are the biggest nemesis of skin diseases.
Bird family repellent, electric mosquito coils and insecticides are the most deprecated method, insecticides and mosquito coils in the phenol component is highly toxic to birds, will cause signs of poisoning, the most ideal way is to configure a pack of Chinese herbal ingredients of mosquito repellent sachets, for the family and birds are a more healthy and effective choice.
In the family ornamental birds, skin diseases are the most common disease, in addition to avian crown ringworm, there are ringworm disease, poultry acne, tail adenitis (tip), etc., the performance of different skin diseases is similar, today's treatment and prevention of bird crown ringworm, first for all bird friends to introduce.
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