Trichomoniasis (ulcer/canker) in canaries and finches
Other names: Canker، Trich
Symptoms
- Not eating and difficulty swallowing
- Weight loss
- Difficulty breathing
- Excess saliva and regurgitation
How it spreads
By direct contact (the parents feed the chicks), or through contaminated food and water.
Diagnosis
A swab from the mouth suspended in warm saline under the microscope.
Treatment
Per Merck: carnidazole 20-30 mg/kg orally for one or two days, or ronidazole 6-10 mg/kg/day orally for 7-14 days, or metronidazole 25-50 mg/kg orally every 12-24 hours for 5 days. (All under veterinary supervision.)
Prevention
Clean water changed daily, and not sharing water dishes with pigeons or wild birds.
Season
Year-round
Treatment and doses are decided by an avian vet after an exam; Zajel does not publish doses.
Other diseases
- Air sac mites (tracheal mites)
- Face and leg mites (scaly face/leg mange)
- Red mites (poultry red mite)
- Feather lice and feather mites
- Coccidiosis (bloody/intestinal diarrhea)
- Atoxoplasmosis (black spot disease / enlarged liver)
- Cochlosomosis
- Giardiasis