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Hi Bluejay,

I'm unsure if I missed something but ringworm is a fungal infection of the skin, not a parasitic worm. I didn't see any reference to ringworm in the article. It would be treated with antifungals.

Maz
As for using a long acting antibiotic, it would most likely be doxycycline. This would not be my choice of antibiotic for a septicaemia secondary to a gut parasite infection but then I'm not treating the case!!

@Myzomela, must have been on the phone with my sister at same time I was responding. She had person show up a the farm in the states that had an issue with ring worm. While it was only, suggested by me, but confirmed when I had her hold battery operated black light to the animals and fugus turned green. Just told her next, to go out the back door and set off fire crackers to scare them off, as it is a closed farm.

Round worm in birds, is foreign to me. Never had the problem in any animal, and in my mind if they are from the states, there must be something going on with that breeder, and it isn't pretty!

They are't from the states but country victoria, the problem came in when she bought a sell out from another stud, unfortunately from what I understand she didn't effectively quarantine and thus her own sock became infected too....very sad way to learn a lesson

Sorry to hear about it and for your friend Maz. If my memory serves me correctly, birds have a tendacy to conceal illness and show puffed and fluffed appearance, and most vets will, over the phone tell person it is SBS, sick bird syndrome. Very difficult to diagnose with out tests, in part this is why avian verterinary medicine is so expensive. I am still a very firm believer in cleanilness and nutrition. I hope your friend recovers from this devastation, quickly. You are a good friend to asisst with research.

BluJay wrote: I am still a very firm believer in cleanilness and nutrition. I hope your friend recovers from this devastation, quickly. You are a good friend to asisst with research.

I suppose most of us can aim for this with our birds...but they will still succumb to illnesses...be aviary set up...(drafts, wet floors, or even wild bird droppings)...the trick is to minumise this happening as well as quarrantine...even if you know who you bought them from doesn't guarantee completely healthy birds....I and probably many others have minimal losses but sadly it does still occur...given that my aviaries were always cleaner then needed to be...I have seen birds kept in dirtier cages then I would keep them and they still thrived....but it is different for everyone...I hope this person sorts their particular problem out soon without more major losses