What are the common causes of diarrhea in parrots
1. Dietary aspects
Improper diet is the most common cause of diarrhea in parrots. If a parrot is found to be diarrhea, the owner can seriously recall whether he has accidentally fed the parrot unclean recently. Food or spoiled vegetables and fruits, and whether the amount of vegetables and fruits provided is appropriate.
Because in addition to diet problems that can cause parrot diarrhea, parrots can easily cause diarrhea by eating too much fruits and vegetables with high water content. In general, when a parrot is found to have diarrhea, the owner needs to find out the cause of the disease based on its diet and mental state performance. For mild diarrhea caused by food, the parrot can usually recover on its own, or the owner can feed it bird probiotics for 2 to 3 days to promote its recovery as soon as possible.
Second, disease aspects
If multiple parrots have diarrhea or If the death phenomenon occurs, it is necessary to consider whether it is caused by some infectious diseases of the parrot. The following diseases of parrots are usually accompanied by diarrhea symptoms:
1. Salmonella infection: Parrots have diarrhea due to Salmonella infection, and their excrement is usually yellow, green, milky white, or gray-green loose stools. The disease can be treated with drugs such as enrofloxacin or ciprofloxacin, and the sick birds need to be isolated and treated, and the original cages should be thoroughly disinfected to prevent the expansion of infection.
2. Escherichia coli infection: Parrots have diarrhea due to infection with Escherichia coli, and their feces are usually white or green sticky stools. In this case, drugs such as gentamicin, chloramphenicol, or ligomycin can usually be used for treatment, and the sick birds are isolated during the treatment.
3. Newcastle disease virus infection: Parrots infected with Newcastle disease virus usually produce a lot of watery loose stools. There is no specific drug to treat the disease. Only the Newcastle oil emulsion vaccine can be used to immunize parrots urgently. At the same time, the sick birds are quarantined.
4. Enteritis or paratyphoid disease: When parrots suffer from enteritis or paratyphoid disease, the anus usually swells and mucus is discharged. In this case, drugs such as chloramphenicol, gentamicin, or tetracycline can be used.
In addition, parrots also have diarrhea symptoms when they suffer from chlamydia, in addition to mental sluggishness, decreased appetite, and viscous purulent eyes and nose. Symptoms such as discharge, dehydration, and gradual weight loss. For this disease, common treatment methods include penicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracyclines. However, if most parrots are infected with this disease, you can infiltrate 0.4g of oxytetracycline into the feed of the sick birds, stir evenly, and feed them continuously for 1 to 3 weeks. This treatment method usually works well. treatment effect.
Reminder: If you are not sure what causes the parrot’s diarrhea, you can try to feed the parrot some garlic water, and then put it in a cage for rest, while Pay attention to keeping warm and windproof for it, check the parrot for 1-2 days, if the diarrhea symptoms are still not relieved, you can feed it some oxytetracycline appropriately, add it to the drinking water for it to drink, and add an appropriate amount to its feed at the same time Glucose powder, seek the help of a veterinarian during the period to make an exact diagnosis of the parrot’s condition, so as to give it targeted treatment.
