Heatstroke / heat stress in canaries and finches
Other names: Heatstroke، Heat
Symptoms
- Panting and open beak
- Wings held away from the body
- Lethargy and falling to the floor
- Sudden death, especially chicks and sitting females
How it spreads
Not contagious.
Diagnosis
Conditions and symptoms.
Treatment
First aid: move the bird to a shaded, quiet place, and spray lukewarm (not cold) water on the legs and wings, and offer water with mineral salts. Then call the vet. (All under veterinary supervision.)
Prevention
Full shade, ventilation without direct drafts, fans or a desert evaporative cooler, slightly cool water changed often, a bath at midday, and stop breeding at the peak of the heat. In Egypt: July-August is the most dangerous time, and in Upper Egypt the temperature can reach 45°C.
Season
June-September (most dangerous in Upper Egypt, and khamaseen waves in spring)
Treatment and doses are decided by an avian vet after an exam; Zajel does not publish doses.
Other diseases
- Egg binding
- Chronic egg laying
- Egg yolk peritonitis
- Cloacal prolapse
- Feather plucking
- Overgrown claws and beak
- Cold stress in adult birds and chicks
- Teflon fume poisoning
Sources
- KB (not web-verified this session): widely repeated aviculture/breeder consensus; treat with stated confidence