Bird Care
Keeping Your Parrot Warm: Essential Winter Care Tips For Indoor Birds
As temperatures drop, it’s easy to forget that our feathered companions feel the chill too. Many of our pet birds are native to tropical areas and are naturally adapted to warm stable climates. Even indoors, the winter cold can be a serious challenge for them. Drafty windows, cool night-time temperatures and dry air from heaters…
Read MoreBird Vet, Avian Vet or Small Animal Vet?
Bird Vets/Avian Vets Are Special One of the most common things that we hear is that people struggle to find a vet for birds. Dog and cat vets can be amazing but many of them are not confident when it comes to treating avian patients. There are a number of reasons why it can be…
Read MoreAvian Influenza – Protect Pet Birds NOW
Another Avian Inflenza Outbreak IS COMING Current advice is: We need to be ready for the arrival of highly pathogenic avian influenza. To date, Australia remains almost the only continent that is free from the strain of avian influenza that is causing global concern: HPAI H5 N1 You don’t need to be a rocket scientist…
Read MoreBird CT scan
Why Do A CT Scan On A Bird? CT scans can assist with the diagnosis of many different conditions. The most common would include hemorrhage, blood clots or cancer. Getting an accurate diagnosis, makes choosing the best treatment path much easier, resulting in better outcomes for you pet. CT Scan For a Duck At Bird…
Read MoreAvian Influenza
What is Avian Influenza? Avian Influenza (commonly known as “Bird Flu”) is a highly contagious viral infection in birds that is most commonly seen in poultry. Infections are considered either highly pathogenic (HPAI) or low pathogenic (LPAI). HPAI is serious and can be expected to cause up to a 100% death rate in affected birds. …
Read MoreLaser Therapy in Birds
Bird Laser Therapy. Laser therapy For birds. Photobiomodulation or Laser therapy for birds is used in the treatment of conditions in birds that benefit from reduced pain, reduced inflammation and more rapid healing. Laser in birds, simply put, reduces pain, inflammation and accelerates healing. Our avian patients seem to enjoy the Avian-Laser therapy sessions. Parrot-laser…
Read MoreMarek’s Disease Vaccination
Here at Bird Vet Melbourne, we offer vaccination against Marek’s Disease in chickens. Marek’s Disease is caused by a cancer-forming virus that affects the nerves, often resulting in leg paralysis in young birds. There is a vaccine available but it is not always effective in every individual bird. Information about the vaccine. (Last updated March…
Read MoreChicken Wormer- Flubenol
Chicken Wormer- Flubenol Having a safe effective chicken wormer like Flubenol makes managing internal parasites much easier. Our chicken veterinary team needs an effective drug for controlling worms in chickens. Flubenol is that drug because it is broad-spectrum in its activity against Ascasidia – Round Worm Heterakis – Round worm Capillaria – a difficult round-worm…
Read MoreExzolt treatments for Chicken Red Mite
Exzolt is an effective treatment for red mite infestations in chickens. It kills the red-mites and can be given to egg-laying birds and there are no withholding periods for eggs. The benefits are: Exzolt efficacy in eliminating poultry red mites Exzolt is easy to dose both orally and in the water to eliminate poultry fowl…
Read MoreBird Boarding Melbourne
Bird Boarding in Melbourne Most reputable pet bird boarding facilities require Bird-boarding or Bird-Vet Health checks for two reasons: To ensure that the owner can go on holiday with confidence that their Pet-bird is healthy to board. Having Your avian vet available for your pet-bird whilst you are away in an emergency gives added reassurance.…
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