The green cheek eggs take about 25 days to hatch. Our small little Gouldian eggs take about 14 days to incubate! In this next picture, one egg is fertile and 2 are not. Click on it to blow it up big and see if you can tell which eggs are fertile.
ï· Rabies: This is a possible cause of ataxia in endemic areas and is contracted via a bite from a rabid animal such as a fox, bat, skunk, raccoon or dog. The rabies virus enters the nervous system at the level of the bite, and may cause changes in mentation and/or ataxia depending on the location of the bite. There is no treatment for rabies once signs appear, but there is a good vaccine available. The vaccination is recommended for horses that live in endemic areas.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis causes large, sometimes painful sores near the site of the bite. Visceral leishmaniasis, also called kala-azar, proves a more serious infection. Patients experience fever, enlarged spleen, enlarged liver, weight loss and low blood-cell counts. Sandflies are most active from dusk to dawn.aused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, Lyme disease is transmitted by the bite of certain species of ticks. The bacterium, normally found in mice, squirrels and other small mammals, does not harm these animalsâor the deer the ticks feed onâbut causes potentially serious disease when transmitted to people.