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| appear as long and thin white worms in the feces |
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| will appear as small, microscopic, thread-like worms |
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| small, rice-like white segments in the feces |
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| caused by a flagellated protozoan and spread through contaminated feces |
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| usually feed on the blood of infected birds at night and then move to cracks in the cage or nest box |
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| should be considered in the case of feathers that look chewed |
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| tunnel into the soft tissues around the beaks, ceres, and faces of budgerigars, love birds, and canaries |
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| also called parrot fever or chlamydiosis |
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| symptoms include a white pasting of feces around the vent |
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| two forms - air sac disease and omphalitis |
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| causes joint, sinus, nasal, middle ear, or skull infections |
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| a painful ailment of the feet of birds |
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| causes hard, rounded gray to yellow pea-sized nodules on internal organs |
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| psittacine beak and feather syndrone |
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| a viral disease that affects the immune system |
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| respiratory difficulty such as wheezing may be one of the signs |
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| a herpes virus infection of parrots, conures, cockatoos, and macaws |
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| causes a swelling of the thyroid glands in the neck |
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| a softening or deterioration of bone |
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| caused by a deficieny of vitamin A |
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| affected birds appear lethargic and less active |
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