24/04/2016
Healthy Birds — How Does Stress Impact Immune and Respiratory Health?
Stress, even in humans, is a killer. In birds, stress does significant damage that can lead to disease and even death. In this healthy birds blog, we talk about how stress affects birds and some of the solutions that help to undo the damage that stress can cause.
Stress — It Is a Killer
Stress is proven by scientific research to lower immune response in birds and can lead to immune suppression — an open invitation to disease and the degrading of psychological health.
Birds that travel for shows or for breeding face a huge amount of stress. Birds that have nutritional problems or that have food security issues also face stress. Those two factors are correctable in captive birds, and even in show birds.
How Diet Counters Stress's Reaction
Some foods are a powerful component for the improvement of health. For birds, we refer to these foods as superfoods because they benefit bird health greatly.
So what you feed your birds plays a huge role in how the birds immune system function. Start with a good quality food or a supplement. In doing so, you give your birds the tools they need to overcome the effects of stress and to also gain health.
Top master breeder, Aji Sunjaya, offers his recommended natural supplements for improving the health and performance for all types of birds.