as anybody got ant tips on feather rot or to help to clear it up its on a old bird chest

its just looks like a little mark on the crop but it dont look good

David is right phil, very unlikely its that, I have never heared of pigeons gettin it. only cage birds and I think its actually a mite.

David is probably correct Phil and no need to panic.............

but pigeons do get feather rot (depluming mite), we had it in 1993 when we first brought the Van Reets in and again in 2004 when we bought a couple of old Hartogs

We treated with a very very watered down bleach, on a saucer and dab into the infected area to kill the mite, feathers grown back when moulting

good advise mark, is there any way phil could decide if it is feather rot.......? maybe if you could give him a description of what it looks like..........?

see so bleach has many uses

FEATHER ROT : Two causes - Fungus/feather boring mite. Both cases thrive in damp patches i.e. residual damp from faeces on perches / nests/ floor corners.. The fungus, microbe or mite lives within the soft pulp of feather shaft, gradually breaking to stubble until bald patches appear.

Affected pigeons may be bathed in Camphor water, alternatively use a proprietory feather rot specific.

Pigeons will moult clean but the problem may reoccur at the next humid season. Fanciers of old applied crushed mothballs & soap to infected area or painted with paraffin oil

Note, if using the watered bleach solution, be careful as to much and it could be absorbed through the skin!!!!!

Remember Billy O'Neil used a powder solution for feather rot similar to lice powder or it may have been lice powder

is it rare to get this or pretty common ? ive never had it or seen it.............

NOT BLEACH..101 things to do with bleech, apart from dye everything white. I remember when I was 13 entering a show, only thing was all my birds were wing stamped in the days judges actually handled the birds instead of just looking at them, anyway the bleech I used to try and remove the ink bleeched them white..

Your were able to make the birds pied instead of original colour

Yes you could even have markings on the pigeons which were impossible to have but were possible using bleach

could have made a nice few cheq/blue pieds don, or even might have tried for a mealy pied.......

i`ll know for next years shows........