Norwich and crest are birds with many feathers, and especially with these types is a good care necessary. These birds have frequently dried uncorking hanging on the feathers around the cloacae. You have to remove this uncorking with a little bit lukewarm water and cannot roughly be pulled away; you have more chance on lightings and irritation.

I give to my birds three days a week a bath, and I put a little bit of soda by the water, this reduces the chance on feather mite. They get fresh drinking water every day and I replace the drink bottle two times per week. I put dirty drink bottles in a bucket with water and chlorine. The next morning I take them out of the bucket en let the drink bottles dry simply. When they are dry, I put them for the cages again. The chlorine water in the bucket is refreshed every week. This happens also with drink bottles, which for the broadloom hang.

For the cover of the bottom I use the "anticoccidioses" grains of Sivobird, this is exactly cat box grains, but there contains less substance. These grains absorb very well, something what hygiene helps in the bird home. The bottom cover is regularly refreshed, depending on the number of birds and clogging. During the cleaning-up the partitions, which at mine has been paved, and the perch cleaned with strong chlorine water, become, as a result of which possible bacteria and moulds are killed.

Naturally there is each day oyster-shell and pebble available. There are also a mineral stones hanging in every flight, where birds can nibble on. An air-cleaner and mechanical fudging take care for fresh air. Young birds can annoy themselves flat for or during moult still already once, and start to pick each other. This we must try definitely, prevent because e.g. a taken off tail or wing pen longer returns, or helmet eel puts to outside. For this where to prevent I gif them a considerable bunch nettles in the flight, they can come along be hours busy. Also if in spring thumb to the trees come, I give them sometimes a branch of which the sheets sit still in the bud. Especially on the branches of hawthorn, luge thorn, birch and willow tree.

Personally I am large antagonist of antibiotics such as Baycox, Baytril etc. In my eyes there are bird-lovers still too many who give antibiotics to unnecessarily several types to their birds. If I ask them then why they do this, then frequently get I that to hear it is precaution, but if a bird is healthy, why must them then from "precaution" antibiotics get? If it is not necessary remain there then as from, and there, however, problems could arise with the health of your birds, look what can the possible cause, and lets be decide an expert veterinary surgeon what you there to must do then firstly.

As long as I am busy with this manner of to grow and looking after my birds, I have lost still but some a bird. It then a young frequently is which has remained in the nest already behind, and not well by moult can come. I still grow now (January 2004) with a female of 1999, she is still in good health finds oneself. If you nevertheless antibiotics use or some thing, indicated thus honest, so that another bird-lover, which birds at you, buys also of this on altitude is.

As each bird-lover, however, knows are, the red fight be blood louse enemy nr.1. These animals they’re several mediums in the trade, but I find personal occepu and carboril the best means, but they have been unfortunately prohibited in our country in the trade. If a good alternative is the many healthier Anti Vampire of the firma K.&K. Forto.