VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

TREATMENT 

• For sick parrots, especially those that refuse to eat, suggested treatment is intramuscular injection of oxytetracycline (100mg/ml) at 1 mg/10-30 g body weight daily for 5 days.
• For small psittacines, intramuscular injections of oxytetracycline at 1 mg/20-30 g body weight , but injected volume must be small (e.g. 0.05ml)
• For treatment and prophylactic measure for parrots and other large psittacines, chlortetracycline at 0.44% in cooked mash, at 0.5% in pellets or 0.5% to any hulled seeds they like is used successfully.
• For small psittacines, chlortetracycline at 0.05% in impregnated hulled millet is successful in treatment and prophylaxis.
• For nectar feeding psittacines (lories, lorikeets) chlortetracycline at 0.05% should be used in liquid diet (1/6 honey, 4/water)
• For pigeon, chlortetracycline at 0.5% in pellet or 50-80 mg/bird/day in drinking water or 0.89% in corn or wheat or 0.4-1% in palatable grain. The oral medication should be continued for 30 days.
• Or canaries and finches, chlortetracycline at 0.05% in palatable medicated seed for 30 days.