Pigeon adenovirus disease, an infectious disease of homing pigeons, also known as pigeon diarrhea, is an acute infectious disease caused by I and N adenovirus infection, which is characterized by vomiting, dehydration and yellow-green loose stool excretion in sick pigeons. The main cause of the disease is the stress reaction caused by pigeon collection, training and competition when racing pigeons are released or competed, which makes the digestive system of racing pigeons dysfunctional and the resistance decreases, leading to adenovirus infection.
How to spread infection?
The disease can be transmitted vertically by breeding eggs, or directly or indirectly (such as pigeon-to-pigeon contact, contact with feed, drinking water, feces, sick pigeon vomit and other pollutants, etc.). ). In horizontal transmission, the incidence rate is about 30%, but it can be as high as 100%. The spread effect of fecal pollution in nests, boxes, floors and pigeon cages is the strongest, fastest and most obvious.
What are the clinical symptoms?
Sick pigeons show watery diarrhea and weightlessness, and often suddenly accumulate food in their crops, or eat only a few grains, and have retching-like vomiting. It vomits grains that have not been soaked for a long time in its crops, and may also be accompanied by a little white or green sticky digestive juice, discharging yellow or yellow-green watery feces or green sticky feces, without thick green sticky feces, and hanging feces on the anus. A few pigeons who are seriously ill can lose water overnight, their pectoral muscles shrivel, lose weight, stand unsteadily, stumble and finally die of dehydration. Such as secondary mixed infection of Escherichia coli and Salmonella, the condition is aggravated. This disease is highly contagious, and it can be transmitted all year round, but the mortality rate is not high. If mixed infection occurs, the mortality rate will increase.
How to treat it?
The treatment of this disease is only for pigeon lovers' reference.
First, pigeon houses should be thoroughly disinfected, and sick pigeons should be isolated separately.
Second, fasting for 2-3 days in an all-round way, pigeons infected with the virus will vomit as soon as they eat. After two or three days of fasting, patients with mild illness will gradually relieve, enhance their immunity and produce antibodies.
Thirdly, it is suggested that ribavirin be soaked in water in proportion for pigeons to eat, which can enhance the immunity of pigeons and avoid repeated infection. You can also use ribavirin+ciprofloxacin hydrochloride and soak it in one liter of water for three days. In severe cases, ribavirin 1/8 tablets can be taken orally twice a day. Take it for three days.
In the daily process, do a good job in the hygiene of the pigeon house and keep it ventilated and dry. Feed should be dry and tidy. Don't feed spoiled and moldy feed. If the feed is wet, it can be dried in fine weather. During training and competition, pigeons should be observed more, and symptoms should be isolated in time.
After a course of adenovirus drug treatment, it is necessary to remove the drug residues in pigeons. For example, drink electrolyte water, eat green storage feed, and clean the intestines with live bacteria. , comprehensive repair and care.
Only with a correct understanding can we learn the law, and the process of mastering the law is the process of overcoming various diseases. Adenovirus has caused great harm to young pigeons, which should be paid great attention to. Therefore, the most effective way to resist all kinds of epidemic pollution is to devote oneself to the construction of healthy pigeon houses, so as to achieve basic management in place, early prevention and early treatment.