We just lost our 22 month old fife canary to a suspected case of air sac mites. He was purchased from a breeder at 17 months of age and he sang and ate well for about 3 months and then went into the molt for 2 and one-half months. The last month he appeared to sit quietly on the bottom for brief periods in the afternoon but then perked up afterwards. Last week we came home to find him on the bottom of the cage and in the morning he couldn't get up on the perch. We took him to an avian vet and she thought it might be respiratory mites and treated him with oral Ivermectin and told us to give him doxycycline. He suffered terribly for seven hours and died. How could he have contracted the mites, he was our only bird and seemed so healthy when we got him?
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