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How to prevent and treat soft tick disease, a parasite of pigeons?

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Parasitic diseases are very harmful to pigeon production, especially affecting the normal egg-laying of breeding pigeons, increasing the number of infertile eggs, and at the same time consuming nutrients, causing pigeons to lose weight, lowering their constitution, and triggering other diseases. Therefore, parasitic diseases of pigeons must be prevented and treated in production. It is a pigeon disease caused by ticks, also known as wall ticks. After young pigeons are attacked by large numbers of ticks, they can suffer severe blood loss and even death; affected pigeons are restless and itchy, gradually lose weight and become anemic, and their growth and development are stunted. Because ticks often parasitize pigeon nests and the accumulated droppings where pigeons often stay, droppings should be cleaned promptly, and the pigeon house

Parasitic diseases are very harmful to pigeon production, especially affecting the normal egg-laying of breeding pigeons, increasing the number of infertile eggs, and at the same time consuming nutrients, causing pigeons to lose weight, lowering their constitution, and triggering other diseases. Therefore, parasitic diseases of pigeons must be prevented and treated in production. It is a pigeon disease caused by ticks, also known as wall ticks. After young pigeons are attacked by large numbers of ticks, they can suffer severe blood loss and even death; affected pigeons are restless and itchy, gradually lose weight and become anemic, and their growth and development are stunted. Because ticks often parasitize pigeon nests and the accumulated droppings where pigeons often stay, droppings should be cleaned promptly; after the walls, floors and other surfaces of the pigeon house are washed, spray them with sulfur powder or trichlorfon solution and insecticidal pyrethrin, focusing the spray on cracks and places where ticks often hide, so as to kill pigeon ticks more thoroughly.

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