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Post by zena on Dec 12, 2012 18:30:53 GMT 10
Hi everyone, I am a bit worried about one of my canaries, and was wondering if canaries can have PBFD?It doesn't fly much (even though I've had it at least 2 months) it spends most of it's time on the floor... The wing feathers appear 'messy'. It's missing some flight feathers, and some of the feathers overlap each other in opposite directions, or appear to grow out from the same point of the wing... sorry if my photos aren't that good... Thanks in advance Zena Attachments:
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Post by zena on Dec 12, 2012 18:33:58 GMT 10
Here's a photo of it when it was in the aviary with the other canaries, I've put it in another cage inside... This photo probably isn't much better... Attachments:
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Post by avinet on Dec 12, 2012 20:53:47 GMT 10
I am not an expert on canaries - but I have quite often seen canaries with poor quality feather growth, not dis-similar to what you describe.
As far as I am aware, canaries don't get PBFD, I certainly haven't heard of it.
One thing they are prone to is feather cysts - a lump usually on the wing which may have a feather or two growing irregularly from it, or a lump with no apparent feather. When these are cut open there is a feather under the skin which has failed to break through to the surface. A vet can clean them out but usually the feather follicle is destroyed in the process and no feather will grow form that location in the future.
If there is a lump - usually around half a pea in size but sometimes up to small pea size - then feather cysts might be the problem. If there are no cysts then I don't really have any suggestion, and it might be an avian vet job.
I doubt there is any infectious reason, many breeders would blame diet and poor nutrition as a cause - and that could well have been before you got the bird. also the older a canary the more likely it seems to get feather problems.
cheers,
Mike
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Post by zena on Dec 12, 2012 21:40:11 GMT 10
Thanks, i'll need to check...
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Post by anzac on Dec 17, 2012 17:52:18 GMT 10
Just googled it as funny enough I lost one of my canaries yesterday with a similar disease, I had been treating it for mites so may be unrelated but according to this site, canaries and finches can get FBFD, just a different strain www.birdclinic.net/avian6.htmThere is another disease called feather mites that also affects canaries. My canary was quite old so diseases are a bit more common in the older ones. |
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Post by zena on Dec 19, 2012 13:32:27 GMT 10
I found out a few days ago when i checked the bird that on one wing she has three flight feathers missing, and on the other wing there is only three flight feathers...
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Post by zena on Feb 27, 2013 12:40:08 GMT 10
... she has short wings... I took her to the vet, just to be sure...
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Post by djbudgie on Nov 10, 2019 8:47:32 GMT 10
Hi, I am late arriving to this thread but did you get to the bottom of this? I am trying to find out if a budgie with PBFD can pass the infection to a canary or a finch. Our budgie has PBFD so he can't have a budgie friend but we're wondering if we could safely get him a canary friend? Any advice would be really welcome.
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