Chronic egg laying in canaries and finches
Other names: She lays too many eggs
Symptoms
- Many eggs one after another with no rest
- Weakness, calcium deficiency and fractures
How it spreads
Not contagious.
Diagnosis
History.
Treatment
Per Merck: reduce lighting to 8 hours, remove the nest and the male, and give calcium. The vet may use a hormone (leuprolide or deslorelin). (All under veterinary supervision.)
Prevention
Control lighting and rest between seasons.
Season
Breeding season
Treatment and doses are decided by an avian vet after an exam; Zajel does not publish doses.
Other diseases
- Egg binding
- Egg yolk peritonitis
- Cloacal prolapse
- Feather plucking
- Overgrown claws and beak
- Heatstroke / heat stress
- Cold stress in adult birds and chicks
- Teflon fume poisoning