Hyperkeratosis or Scaly Face Mites?

[gudee]

Hello I’m new here

I bought my budgie Gudetama about a month ago from a local pet shop they didn’t tell us much about her except that she is a Female budgie roughly 1 year old. I noticed that she had some build up and crustiness on her cere, I thought right away that she had Scaly Face Mites and bought the Avimec treatment for her. I was going to start treatment right away but hesitated as I didn’t want to harm her is she didn’t have it, so I did some research and came across Hyperkeratosis although I don’t know how to tell the difference between the two. I don’t know what to do I don’t want to treat her for something she doesn’t have in case it hurts her but if she does have mites I want to start treatment as soon as possible as not to cause her any suffering.

I wanted to attach picture but I am not sure how.

Any advice you might have would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

[Loz]

Hello and welcome!

I'm not familiar with avimec but a web search reveals it's a kind of Ivermectin treatment.
I use S76 ivermectin for my budgies four times a year as a prophylactic treatment for mites. It is perfectly safe.
If avimec is a similar treatment, it is a good idea to administer it, even if scaly mites isn't the actual problem here.
Do you have access to an avian specialist vet where you are? It would be a good idea to consult them.
Hopefully someone will post here shortly with more advice.

[Marianne Marlow]

gudee

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