How to give the medicine to the birds?

And all because the introduction of medicinal products forcibly causes stress, that goes sick not at all to the benefit, birds can also die of shock. Today we will talk about how to properly give medicines to our feathered friends.

Here When animals need to give a medicine in the form of a powder or a pill, they usually use his favorite food. From her make a small cake, in the middleput medicine, mix with the rest of the food and give the pet. Sometimes the "patient" looks suspiciously at the proposed dish and turns his nose away from him. In this case, he first needs to offer a few cakes of his favorite food in pure form, and then with the addition of drugs.

There are several ways of introducing drugs to the birds: inside, subcutaneously, intravenously and intramuscularly. Inside the birds, the medication is given in the same way as the animal, mixing it with a small amount of soft food (with butter, cottage cheese, bun with honey, in general - to taste).

Vitamins, saline solutions and some prophylactic drugs (eg potassium permanganate) are dissolved in water. It is desirable that it is not enough in a drinker, and whileThe bird will not drink everything, you do not need to give any other liquid. If the bird for some reason does not want or can not take the medicine itself, it is given from a pipette.

Burying the medicine in the bird's beak, you need to act very carefully, pour the drops into the open oral cavity gradually, in small portions. Otherwise, strong protective reactions are possible, which, in the end, can lead to the death of the pet.

Bird carefully picked up, two fingerskeep an open beak and in the side drip the medicine, controlling the movement of the tongue, as the bird swallows it. Between the upper and lower halves of the beak of parrots and birds with a curved beak, a small piece of durable material is inserted so that the pet does not injure the master in a furious urge to close his mouth.

Subcutaneously, parrots are injected with solutions (mainly blood substitutes) to the occiput in a dose of no more than 5 ml at a time. Sometimes it becomes necessary to givepet injections. The technique of their execution is simple, everything is like that of people. The main thing is to overcome your fear and not think that you can hurt your pet.

<p <strong >> Before direct injection of the medicine into the muscles, it is necessary to pull the plunger of the syringe towards yourself to make sure that the needle is not in the vessel.</ strong> If she is in it, blood will appear in the syringe. In this case, the needle is better to move a little deeper. To reduce the pain after the injection, before removing the needle from the body, a little bit of cotton wool, moistened with alcohol, is pressed against her skin. Then the place where the medicine was injected is gently massaged for about a minute with the same cotton wool so that the liquid is better distributed in the tissues and absorbed more quickly.

In some cases (with poisoning and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract) ill birds are given a medicine or washed the digestive organs with a probe. Through the rubber tube - the probe - into the stomachthe solution is administered in an amount that depends on the size of the bird. After this, the probe is lowered, and the liquid is poured, preliminarily sucked off with a syringe. Rinsing the stomach is done until the liquid becomes clear.

Sometimes birds are washed with goiter, for this they usea thin rubber tube, put on a syringe. After introducing the liquid, the bird is lowered head down and hand strokes the goiter - while the liquid from the goiter pours out. This procedure is repeated several times.