When you join the pet-raising industry, you will inevitably encounter a time when the parrot becomes sick. In this series, we will share some common diseases of parrots to give everyone a certain reference, hoping to be helpful in prevention, identification and treatment.

It should be reminded that the content mainly introduces symptoms and aims to provide some basic judgments. Owners can improve their understanding of parrot health through enhanced learning.

However, home care cannot meet all the treatment requirements for parrots, and some symptoms cannot fully reveal the underlying causes of parrots. Real patients.

Therefore, in addition to learning basic knowledge and improving the ability to care for parrots, owners are advised to take the bird to a regular hospital for treatment as soon as possible when conditions permit. Scientific diagnosis and timely treatment.

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Today’s article shares “Egg Blockage Syndrome”.

| What is egg obstruction?

Egg blockage, as the name suggests, is a blockage in egg production, commonly known as "stuck eggs", which means that the eggs cannot be discharged normally and smoothly. The stuck eggs will have adverse effects on the body of the parrot, and may even cause death in severe cases. Danger.

| Why does the egg jam occur? How to avoid it?

We often hear people say: The stuck egg is because there is a problem with the egg molding and the egg shell is not hard enough. If you want to avoid parrots, you need to add more calcium!

Actually, this only points to one possible scenario.

Blindly only considering calcium supplementation without truly discovering the cause will lead to inability to effectively resolve symptoms.

Kazawa Uizawa, director of the Yokohama Bird Hospital in Japan, pointed out:

Egg blockage is related to the tightness of the birth canal, and the tightness of the birth canal is directed by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves.

When a bird lays an egg, the parasympathetic nerves send instructions to relax the birth canal. Under abnormal circumstances, such as cold weather, the parasympathetic nerves cannot correctly transmit instructions and the birth canal cannot relax, resulting in egg jam.

He said that when the weather gets colder, it is often the peak season for parrots to get stuck eggs.

Birds often get stuck eggs due to the ambient temperature.

In other words, the cause of egg stuck may be due to the failure of the birth canal to relax, rather than whether the egg shell is enough hard!

Based on this, he gave suggestions from the root cause. Appropriate measures should be taken to keep birds warm in winter. Keeping birds warm too early will cause the birds to go into estrus and cause excessive ovulation. The purpose In avoiding estrus.

As the saying goes, when the temperature drops, you only need to provide a sufficient temperature to keep warm, and do not overheat.

At the same time, when the eggs in the parrot's body are formed, it is necessary to protect the bird from cold, so as not to shrink the birth canal and affect ovulation - aiming to avoid tension in the birth canal.

| What should you do when an egg jam occurs?

I believe some people have heard of some home remedies, such as using olive oil enema for lubrication.

However, President Ebizawa once again pointed out that oil prescription cannot solve the problem of tight birth canal in parrots and does not recommend this method.

It is recommended to send the bird to the hospital. Before that, the main thing the breeder should do is to keep the bird warm and allow the birth canal of the bird's body to relax.