upcd
160 posts
Feb 25, 2006
9:40 PM
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Has anyone seen it. What do you do for it?
Last Edited by upcd on Feb 25, 2006 9:40 PM
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J_Star
270 posts
Feb 26, 2006
7:42 AM
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Use Sulmet.
Jay
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upcd
168 posts
Mar 06, 2006
12:04 AM
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Vet gave nystatin. Bird passed away.
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upcd
170 posts
Mar 06, 2006
9:29 AM
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Thank you I'll keep that in mind for the next time. But let pray thier won't be a next time.
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Mount Airy Lofts
134 posts
Mar 08, 2006
2:32 PM
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I had young birds at 2 and a half weeks old come up with a similar problem.
The crop area would be like a balloon.
My cure, it killed it. No need to waste time on such young birds. No good will come out of it. I would rather lose 1 month at egg to 2 or so weeks, then months of trying to fix the problem and then fly it out just to possibly cull it.
I find that after culling the bird, its nest mate thrive and will age alot more quicker. The faster it ages, the faster I can move it to the kit box.
Thor
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
516 posts
Mar 08, 2006
6:25 PM
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Hey Thor and upcd, early on when I started with the rollers, I would pain over every ill bird and wonder what I was doing wrong.
I finally came to the conclusion that if I have kept a proper loft through good management and basic care and a young bird got sick anyway, I would just cull the bird rather than expend too much effort and $$ trying to cure it.
upcd, if the pigeons are more of a pet to you, I can see where you will go to greater lenghts (paying a vet) to try and cure an ill bird. I say this because I have seen some of your posts on another site that prefers to save them at almost any cost.
I think alot of pigeon breeders don't see them as pets like maybe the family cat or dog and do not hesitate to cull a weak and sickly bird. However, I do have some favorites that I know I would try very hard to save them if I thought I could! LOL
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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upcd
183 posts
Mar 09, 2006
9:51 PM
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I think being a woman and mother.I become bonded with birds and hate any to died. But I know some will pass on. This is part of life. But if the bird is willing to fight so I am I. And I try to help anybody who needs help. And if the bird is beyond my help I take to the Humane Society and they put it to sleep.
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Mount Airy Lofts
138 posts
Mar 09, 2006
10:12 PM
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Tony,
It is funny how much these birds mean to me. It breaks my heart when a really good one passes on or is taken out of the air by a hawk/falcon.
Some times, these may be just pigeons to some but they can be like another family member to others. I know many guys who name their birds - Old Peg Leg, Smokey, Hawk, etc.
They may start as pigeons, but even a pigeon can become more then just a pigeon with time. The factor usually lies when it breaks the barrier of ultimate or close to it performance. Once it does, the owner never looks back and would give a arm or leg for that bird.
I re-frame from giving any of my birds names. It kind of keeps me humble if I loose it. Even tho I seem humble about loosing a bird, it still tears you up inside. Has any one ever lost a great team of birds to an over fly or by theft? Makes you wanna just give up doesn't it!
When your pigeons become Birmingham Rollers - it's hard to look at them the same.
Thor
P.S. I don't have a problem tossing away eggs or culling weak or sick youngs in the nest or in the kit box. It is a part of life when you breed pigeons. I truly believe in survival of the fittess. Every Roller has to earn their feed, even in the stock loft. Culling goes hand in hand with cultivating Birmingham Rollers. Mother nature is all ways trying to revert our birds back to the Wild Type - remember this.
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