All Entries Tagged With: "mites"
Tails You Lose! – Part 3
As readers may already be aware, I am trying to establish if the loss of tail feathers can be attributed to nutrition, feather mite infestation, lice or another unknown cause.
Tail & Wing Butt Cysts
How to deal with cysts on tails and wing butts.
Budgerigar Health Part 4 of 5 – Medicines
Budgerigars are particularly susceptible to environmental diseases that may cause catastrophic losses and illnesses that affect their wellness and ability to breed. Medicines are needed to cure and prevent these diseases such as coccidiosis, worms, lice and mites.
Budgerigar Health Part 3 of 5 – Self Diagnosis
For breeders, an ability to detect the first signs of an illness is essential as many budgerigar diseases are rapidly fatal with the best quality show birds often being the first to die. Changes in the behaviour or physical appearance of an individual bird may indicate the beginning of an illness or an inherent weakness. [...]
