My yellow bird (oriole) died of diarrhea. How to treat and prevent?

1. Vitamin A deficiency

Symptoms: The main symptoms of vitamin A deficiency are: inflammation of eyes and nose, swelling of eyelids, decreased vision, tofu-like secretion in eyes, and sometimes the upper and lower eyelids stick together. Feathers are loose and messy. Dyskinesia Some birds have dry eyes, or one eyeball sinks, but the eyeball is not damaged and they still have vision. In severe cases, corneal perforation will occur, leading to outflow of aqueous humor and blindness. When young birds lack vitamin A, their growth will be delayed or stopped.

Treatment: Vitamin A deficiency can be treated with cod liver oil. Feeding a drop of concentrated cod liver oil every day for three days can cure it quickly (the eyeball has been damaged beyond cure). 3% boric acid water can be used to clean eyes with secretions or adhesion of upper and lower eyelids.

Prevention: properly adding carrots, vegetables or fruits to the feed can prevent vitamin A deficiency, and cod liver oil can also be added, but it is easy to cause poisoning if it is not mastered well.

2. vitamin d deficiency

Symptoms: lack of vitamin D will affect the absorption and utilization of calcium by birds, leading to poor growth and development and rough and dull feathers; The sternum, beak and claws are deformed or bent, and the legs are severely deformed; Leg weakness, reduced activity, often squatting to rest. Female birds lay soft eggs, which affects reproduction.

Treatment: Take concentrated cod liver oil to supplement vitamin D, one drop a day for three consecutive days. Pay attention to whether there is calcium deficiency while supplementing vitamin D. You can add bone powder and shell powder to supplement calcium while supplementing vitamin D.

Prevention: often going outdoors to bask in the sun can encourage birds to produce vitamin D by themselves. However, it should be noted that sunlight passing through ordinary glass can not promote birds to produce vitamin D.

3. Vitamin E deficiency

Symptoms: when vitamin E is deficient, birds will have dyskinesia, and their heads and necks will lean back and bend into an "S" shape. Although I really want to eat food, it is actually very difficult to eat food and water. Sometimes a sudden touch will make the bird's head and neck lean backwards, and its head and neck will bend in an "S" shape, making it unstable, sometimes it will fall to the ground, and it may return to normal after a little quiet. As his illness worsens, he will die in a few days.

Treatment: Take vitamin E, 5mg each time, 2-3 times a day. When there is no vitamin E, you can feed vegetable oil, such as peanut oil. If vegetable oil is dripped into the feed, the feed should not be kept for too long, not more than 8 hours in winter and not more than 4 hours in summer.

Prevention: The main reason of vitamin E deficiency is that the feed has been stored for too long or deteriorated, so the feed should be prevented from going moldy and deteriorated.

4. psittacosis

Pathogen: Chlamydia is the pathogen of psittacosis, which can infect 190 kinds of birds, including poultry, and also can infect people.

Symptoms: depression, loss of appetite or refusal to eat, diarrhea, watery feces in the early stage, green or gray in color, reduced feces in the middle stage, sticky, black or green, often polluting feathers. In the later stage, feces are a large number of water samples. Some eyes, nose inflammation, watery or purulent discharge, difficulty breathing, thick breathing sound, and a "giggle" sound. I often squat and don't move, and finally I am exhausted.

Treatment methods: ① Eliminate the sick birds diagnosed as psittacosis, and bury or burn them with poultry manure to avoid infecting healthy birds and people. ② Strictly disinfect cages and drinking utensils. ③ Special and precious birds can be treated with drugs under strict isolation. The method is to mix the raw materials according to the following concentrations: tetracycline 0.02-0.04%, oxytetracycline 0 .05-0. 1% or chlortetracycline 0.02-0.06%, which must be mixed evenly 15-30 days.

Prevention: ① To prevent the introduction of chlamydia, keep new birds in isolation for at least 3 months. ② In case of chlamydia, decisive measures should be taken to eliminate sick birds, and cages, drinking utensils and the environment should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. If you want to introduce new birds to raise in the original environment, it is best to introduce them after a while.

5. Avian cholera

Pathogen: The pathogen of avian cholera is Pasteurella multocida, which can infect poultry. Feed and drinking water contaminated with Pasteurella multocida can spread the disease. Hot and humid seasons are easy to happen.

Symptoms: Most acute cases die suddenly without any symptoms. Acute cases are listless, don't like to open their eyes, have loose feathers, have severe diarrhea, stand unsteadily and don't like activities.

Treatment: Penicillin, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline and sulfonamides are all effective. 0.05-0. 1% oxytetracycline and 0.2-0.5% sulfadimidine are mixed for 5-7 days.

6. aspergillosis

Pathogen: The pathogen of aspergillosis is some fungi of Aspergillus. Moldy feed and padding are the main sources of Aspergillus.

Symptoms: Symptoms are manifested in the respiratory system, such as dyspnea, open mouth breathing, increased breathing times, and sometimes flapping wings. In some cases, thin or sticky secretions flow from the nose, eyelid swelling and conjunctival inflammation.

Treatment: nystatin is administered at the rate of 6.5438+0.5 million units per kilogram of feed. /F ONT & gt； Seven days.

Prevention: do a good job in environmental sanitation and ensure that poultry houses are dry and ventilated; Change the bedding frequently, and don't feed moldy and deteriorated feed.

Yellowbird breeding

When the yellow bird migrates in spring and autumn, it crosses northern China twice a year. Often caught, it is easy to raise and tame. There are many kinds of yellowbird cages, but the lacquer bamboo round cage is the most exquisite one. The bottom should be closed and covered with a thin cloth pad, because it has less staple food powder or dry powder feces, which is not easy to pollute the bottom of the cage. There should also be a higher bottom ring to prevent granular shells from flying around and birds from spoiling food. In order to teach skills, or to be a "trap", some people keep female yellowbirds on shelves, mostly upright.

Feed and feeding methods Yellowbird mainly eats conifer seeds in the wild, so it likes to eat seeds of oil crops such as perilla, peanuts, walnuts and sunflower seeds at home. The yellowbird just caught can be lured by perilla, but it can't be fed for a long time, otherwise it will be overweight. Generally, millet, millet, barnyard grass and a small amount of perilla are mixed. When the yellowbird eats, it often picks perilla to eat, and all other seeds are picked out, resulting in waste. It is best to feed mixed powder. Corn, peanuts and perilla (3: 1: 1) can be ground into powder, and a small amount of sand is added, which is often given to leafy vegetables (Chinese cabbage, spinach, rape and purslane). In addition, eggs and millet are also fed, but some seeds of oil crops need to be fed in winter.

Feeding yellowbird is the easiest way to manage and train caged birds. As long as there is enough water and the water quality is fresh, the cage can be cleaned 1-2 times a week. The yellowbird is often basked in autumn, winter and spring, and the cage is hung in a cool place in summer. Give leafy vegetables and add perilla when molting. The yellowbird's feathers change quickly, "open" early, and the feathers are silvery gray, which looks very beautiful.

Beijing has strict requirements on the singing of yellowbird, and pays attention to "three big mouths", namely magpie, red and oil gourd. If there are other birds' calls, they are often considered as "miscellaneous mouths", especially the calls of peaceful birds, goldfinches, finches and young black tits. So it is very difficult to cultivate a real "three-mouthed" yellowbird. In addition to getting a "hemp bird" and strictly isolating it, we should often get up early, get into a small cage and take a walk in the Woods where gray magpies live. Hide in the schoolbag on the way, take it out when you hear the gray magpie, and open the cage. It takes two weeks or more to learn. Let them learn to call you gourd mouth. Generally, you keep oil gourd at home. In the evening, the oil gourd likes to sing, so he puts the yellowbird under the lamp to listen. In addition, people who keep yellowbirds like to keep a red one, which is to teach yellowbirds to call.

As for the technique of yellowbird, it is nothing more than simple actions such as "calling far", "ringing the bell" and "drawing lots" (commonly used by fortune tellers in the past), all of which are simple conditioned reflex induced by perilla.

The breeding problem of yellow birds in artificial breeding should attract wide attention of bird lovers. Artificial breeding can get satisfactory "hemp birds", which does not need to be caught in the wild and is also conducive to protecting natural populations. If domestication has been successful, we should first raise several pairs in a big cage. After careful observation, we find that there are close couples, and it is possible to lay eggs by putting them in a breeding cage with grass nests.