Are the blues for you?

RINGNECKS are not as susceptible as Australian parakeets, but they can still experience problems with intestinal roundworms. These worms build up in the host’s intestines and live on the digested food that is passing through the gut. A single worm can produce as many as 2,000 eggs in a year, so it is easy to understand how a large infestation can build up on the floor of an aviary.

Worm eggs are similar to turtle eggs (albeit obviously very much smaller), in as much as they have a rubbery shell that stays viable on a damp aviary floor for many months. To mitigate this problem to some degree, I have built aviaries with