How and where in the budgies body is the lice spray sprayed?

It should give you directions on the bottle usually i think it says hold about 40 cm from the bird and spray, trying to avoid eyes, although it can be easily washed out if irritation occurs... make sure all food and water sources are removed from the cage before hand and that the perches and cage itself is also treated with the spray

Do your birds have mites? It's best only to use it as a treatment, not as a preventative.

To do it properly you need to hold the bird and extend it wing. The mite and or lice tend to hide under there. Feather mite attach himself to the feather and draw blood from there. So hit them with the spray than again 3 or 4 days later.

Hi Dossie,

 

I just do as Libby said in the first reply, hold approx 40 cm from the birds and spray. I found that if you spray their front first they will turn around and you can then get their back.

 

Liv, I treat every bird that I get with one drop of ivermectin (mite treatment) when they are in quarantine.

 

 

Feathers.

I find this topic always so interesting but then I don't have an aviary either. Both Pretty & Merlin where never treated for mites or wormed but in AU it seems more a common practice? I can see why with a large aviary but with a pet situation?

I find this topic always so interesting but then I don't have an aviary either. Both Pretty & Merlin where never treated for mites or wormed but in AU it seems more a common practice? I can see why with a large aviary but with a pet situation?

 

 

This is a very valid point. Some birds are resistant to scaley face mites and can be carriers, whilst others will become infected at times of stress (moving, breeding, moulting etc). So birds can be bought in and show no sign of mites within their quarantine period.

 

Putting a bird in with a couple of others in a pet cage situation wouldn't be a huge problem if it showed signs of scaley face mites later on as it is easy enough to treat the others all at once.

 

Putting a bird into an aviary of even 20 or 30 birds plus could be a nightmare if it later showed signs of scaly face mites, having to catch all the birds one at a time to treat them and making sure you didn't miss any....

 

 

Feathers.