1. Medical record checking
The medical record checking can be quite various according to different pigeon diseases, you are inquired to check different body part of the pigeon in order to better target each pigeon. The main point you should remember is to check the current disease situation and the feeding and management situation before the disease.
Medical record checking is the process of looking for what cause the disease and finding the treating method for the disease. Experienced veterinarian can find out the nature of a disease in medical record checking. For example, comment disease or infectious diseases.
2. Clinical Diagnosis
Clinical diagnosis should conclude mass examination, individual examination and pathological analysis.
Mass examination is giving a observation of the whole pigeon group. While observing the group, do not disturb any of the pigeon as best as you can and you should doing the observation when feeding them. The observation should be include: nutritional condition of the pigeon body, the appetite and drinking situation, mental condition of the group, total number of the group and the number of diseased pigeon. Form the mass examination, you can get a general evaluation of the disease severity and the change of incidence of disease.
Individual examination is checking the sick pigeons instead of the whole group. First of all, check the nutritional condition of these pigeons and the body weight, plumage color, chest muscle. General speaking, a well-developed pigeon suddenly suffer disease, the group are much more likely toe get an acute communicable disease, toxic peripheral diseases and stress diseases.
In terms of individual examination, deeply studied what cause the pigeon diseases and according to different diseases situation, prepare for the treatment.
3. Laboratory Diagnosis