youngbird sickness

wouldnt think so alex

birdy2011 wrote:

another thing is if the lofts to dark and you shut down at say 5pm for 14 hours some birds may still want a drink hence holding corn no water for 14 hours or so
just a thought
guess we could go on for ages on this pigeons lol they do test us to lol

this is why we feed at least an hour before shutting up graham

ian wrote:

wouldnt think so alex

might be something they eat when there out ian

I dont think its down to bredding early that as been done for a long time as mark was saying about dark is porbaly right whot I have noticed is when you darken the air dont cerculate the same when i lift the blinds you can smell pigeons and realy that should not happen

Alex wrote:

Has anyone had yb sickness before the birds have been out?

no mate...........never had it with latebreds bred after season either?

i have spinning cowls on the roof changing air flow constant

Lightning wrote:

Alex wrote:

Has anyone had yb sickness before the birds have been out?

no mate...........never had it with latebreds bred after season either?

all mine were 2010 latebreds mark and i havent had a single problem

I have never been on darkness so that isnt it for me, I think hot weather and no air change is a problem, I do use fans now when its still and sunny. I never treat for yb sickness, if they are sick more than a week I get rid. not interested in birds that are ill and cannot overcome pigeon problems.

think thats a bit harsh martyn so if you had youngbird sickness in your loft you would kill them all rather than an easy fix

If I had yb sickness in my loft and it affected many birds , lets just say all of them and they were sick for weeks... I would be devistated but would get rid of the lot, and start again its a weekness in my eyes for birds to be sick. They will never be any good after it, I dont mean that birds in my loft dont get a chance to recover, I had a bird once that was fluffed up for a few weeks but not really Ill with green droppings just didnt really know what was wrong but it went out ate and flew ok, it recovered and won big prizes for me, but it got over it and thats the key, I think most birds do get under the weather but they get over it.

is it a weakness for people to be sick too...everyone gets something wrong with them at some point most can be treated but dont think it makes them weaker as their immune systems become stronger to it.

Alex wrote:

is it a weakness for people to be sick too...everyone gets something wrong with them at some point most can be treated but dont think it makes them weaker as their immune systems become stronger to it.

well said alex my way of thinking aswell but everyone to there own ,

thats it ian, and everyones allowed their opinion.

had it go through my young birds in 2001 21 of 24 throwing corn all over the perches put down the worst one and took it to a young austrailian vet she pointed out that there were ulcers on the inside of the crop ! the intake of grain iritated the ulcers causing the birds to vomit she prescribed 2ml of Nystatin oral suspension down the throat and 5m the following 3 days in the water all problems cleared by the 3rd day and ready to race again the following saturday !! nystatin is also used to treat thrush iritations in women ......the youngsters were not on darkness private trained and until that point had not been in contact with any other birds ...ray

I would be interested in finding out how many fanciers have had birds really sick, that need anibiotics, then went on to win good prizes??? I think there might be a point in the imune getting stronger, and we all know that once a bird goes light and has full cocci, they are then imune to it forever, but my point how many of these cured go on to win?

my birds dont go on the darkness thing but i still got it last year tried the charcoal remedy didnt work i certainly dont over crowd [8 birds in 10x6 loft] well ventilated and mine still snuffed it! pray to god i dont get it again,i do give them apple cider vinigar now so will let yous know if it helps lads

that puts a lot of theories out of the window

cider vinegar will help, but I still have had a few perches in the morning with spewed corn on them, but only the a few, which doesnt mean they have ybs or that they are sick......

if you have corn on perches when you open up martyn then you do have sick birds it not a natural thing for them to hold corn

Yes I agree Ian its not normal, however as I said I dont have sick birds cos if I get them I kill them, but for whatever reason I dont know why, you do get the odd day out of a whole yb season that it apperars one morning on the perch, then next day its gone so the bird isnt sick as it doesnt happen again, but it happens and I have no answer why, Im just being honest.