Parasites

There’s a particular kind of dread that hits when you catch your parakeet scratching at 2 a.m. and then notice a faint gray-red speck crawling along the perch. Your first instinct is to grab the nearest can of anything with “mite” on the label. Please don’t. The wrong bird mite spray can do more harm … Read more

A quarantine cage for new bird parasite isolation is a separate, easy-to-disinfect enclosure kept in a different room from your resident birds, where a newcomer lives for several weeks while you watch for mites, lice, gut parasites, and other hidden illnesses before any contact with the flock. That’s the textbook version. Here’s the real-life version: … Read more