how many youngbirds

yes maybe ian, ive never tried it yet but ive read that some who have will never do it again because they think darkness contributes to yb sickness......maybe someone might give us their thoughts on it if they have had yb sickness while on the dark....

i do it david and wont go any other way

just out of interest david, I have never been on darkness. However I had youngbird sickness last year, only a few birds off and on over a few months, sometimes only some symptoms for a day or two then it woud go. but it was youngbird sickness for sure , didnt really bother me too much just a pain.

if you had it you must have lost young uns,thats a pain

terrible thing is youngbirds sickness,can be treated but wouldnt wish it on anyone.

hope nobody gets this in y/bs

Same here hope no one gets it hope everything goes well

the thing is they will believe me

unfortunately i would say that 80% of fanciers will have some form of YBS, as soon as the stress takes over (normally when you start training or mix them on first race) bang.....

holding there corn, vomiting and some people still race them the week after (was always taught rest is best), then slowly bring them back out the week after that if all is well

I've had YBS in one form or another for as long as I can remember, I just hope I get it before YB racing and have time to get them over it. I dont think it harms them now and it seems to be a lot less harsh.

Unfortunately not everyone is open about it, I dont mean on here, I mean in general. People think there's some kind of stigma attached to it, one guy in my club said he'd never had it - then went on to say he had it slightly, and that's like your daughter telling you "I'm only a little bit pregnant"

as ive not raced for many years i dont actually know what the full symptums are, also what is the best treatment for it.............?

On this subject I can say, last year I had it off and on. In my opinion some get it some dont it just the way it is. I am a clean fancier always scraping and I dont think it makes ant differance at all.

martyn, do you think they get it from other birds in the basket ? i re-started nearly two years ago and havnt raced or trained my birds, so therefor they havnt been in contact with other pigeons in baskets and i havnt had it.......so what do you think ?

It's not a great subject, but here are the details, unfortunately you'll know when/if you get it, it's horrible.

the youngsters character changes overnight, they go quite, there's no cooing, vomit on the perches early in the morning, or when you open up from the dark the other birds dropping down to eat the sicked up food, reluctance to fly, once you've let the out thy wont come back in. water/food retention in the crop.
sorry to paint a horrible picture, but I'm telling it how it is, for those that dont know

Well david as for birds getting ailments i the basket, I feel that its always been long before I even trained that I got most problems, once the birds seem to get to a certain age, the Illnesses go. I havent had birds return and then get Ill. usually if they make it through training and a race or 2 and fly home they are usually healthy..so to answer the question I would say no.

ive heard some fanciers say that putting ybs on darkness is a major cause of yb sickness and they wont use the system again, i dont know how true this is as i havnt done it...........

i know fanciers who dont go on the dark and still get youngbird sickness

so it must be down to contact with other pigeons as like i said, ive never had it in two years, but mine dont come into contact with others.....

y/b sickness is in air as it was 20 years ago, you would have thought more could be done by now

what do you treat with steve i find nyfuramycen does the trick

havent treated for it ian, but heard that is good

yes it is good but got to get it early

steve1952 wrote:

y/b sickness is in air as it was 20 years ago, you would have thought more could be done by now

steve, i dont remember YBS 20 years ago ? thought it was more recent...........