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Canary Advice Please!

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  • 14-12-2007 9:48pm
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    jellycopter
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    Find it rather hard to find a solution/advice on this one, as it seems vets in my town (Drogheda) don't really deal with birds.

    My folks have a Canary, who is losing feathers under his beak and around his neck. We've been advised that it may be mites, but I'm not really getting anywhere regarding a cure. None of my vets seem to have a solution. There was talk of getting "mite powder" but nobody seems to know where to get this.

    Does anyone have any ideas?


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    echosound
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    I can only think of two suggestions -one - call into a pet shop that specialises in birds (where was the canary got from? Ask there?) and ask them if they can help, they may even carry the mite powder if that's what's needed. There's a chap in our local area (south east) that mainly deals with birds and bird supplies, they are generally very helpful and can often spot what's wrong at a glance.

    or two - see if there's a bird club in your area, there will be people who know virtually everything about birds, even if it's a racing pigeon club, chances are some of the people involved also keep other birds (I know a chap who's in a bird club, he would keep smaller birds like yorkies/canaries/finches as well as racing pigeons and from what I can gather he's very knowledgeable about most species of birds, I will ask him next time I see him what could be causing the feathers to fall out but hopefully you will have found the answer yourself in the meantime).

    See if you can get in touch with the bird club and ask if anyone would be able to suggest a cure. Hope your folk's bird will be ok.


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    Our man in Havana
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    How does the beak look?? is it misshaped at all?

    Bairbre O'Malley in Bray is the best I think for birds or exotics etc.


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    jellycopter
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    Thanks for the advice, folks.

    My dad actually kept pigeons most of his life, so he knows a lot about birds. He was the one who suggested mites. I rang around a few places and most of them have told me that anti-mite powder was actually taken off the market and is only available in the north.

    I did manage to track down a place in the golden pages in Dublin that has some though, so I guess we'll take a spin down there. I also found a brand of powder on ebay that has been recommended by quite a few people, so it looks like there's light at the end of the tunnel.

    Oh and no, there's nothing visually wrong with his beak. I know where you're coming from on that one. I saw a few pics on the net of birds infected by certain mites - poor chaps!


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