The importance of bathing your birds.....?

how important do members think regular baths are to our pigeons......? and how many baths a week do you give them

1 a week winter, 2 in summer sometimes 3 hot weather with muscle relaxer

hi steve, warm water or cold, and do you think it makes any difference which..........?

cold water but in winter some hot water added

do you think the warm water would relax them more, or also tighten the feathers better etc.....?

hi david , putting warm water in the bath just soaks in there feathers quicker
as i dont have mine in the garden it as to be cold water for me with lots of malt vinegar
and table salt in the water keeps the lice at bay and realy tightens them up and it cheap .
cheers kev .

hi kev, how you doing........ thats the kind of tips i like to hear, sounds about right re the lice etc shall give it a go as i like the sounds of it tightening the feathers......ill try it sunday and let you know.............

DAVID wrote:

hi kev, how you doing........ thats the kind of tips i like to hear, sounds about right re the lice etc shall give it a go as i like the sounds of it tightening the feathers......ill try it sunday and let you know.............

hi david , im not to bad mate that tip i got was from mike staddon from the BHW
afew years ago and it does realy work and if the birds drink it no harm done but use it every time you bath
the birds you will see the differance in a few weeks .

as i dont have mine in the garden it as to be cold water for me with lots of malt vinegar
and table salt in the water keeps the lice at bay and realy tightens them up and it cheap .
cheers kev .[/quote]

how much of each thing do you put in kev ??

Rene A wrote:

as i dont have mine in the garden it as to be cold water for me with lots of malt vinegar
and table salt in the water keeps the lice at bay and realy tightens them up and it cheap .
cheers kev .

how much of each thing do you put in kev ??[/quote]as much as you want rene A , a good hand full of salt
and about a couple of inches of vinegar as it,s cheap it does not realy matter how quick it goes the wife goes
to the supper market every week .

lol thanks for that mate il giv it a go

Rene A wrote:

lol thanks for that mate il giv it a go

yes so will i rene/kev, tight silky feathers is what im after to hopefully repel rain et........always noticed when birds are fit/in condition how silky and tight they look.

is this once a week kev.....?

DAVID wrote:

Rene A wrote:

lol thanks for that mate il giv it a go

yes so will i rene/kev, tight silky feathers is what im after to hopefully repel rain et........always noticed when birds are fit/in condition how silky and tight they look.

is this once a week kev.....?

yes david , as many times as you like .

I didnt realize the importance of baths, especially for the young birds until last year, I have a friend he bred slightly later than me a few weeks, yet his birds were always in better fetle than mine and turned out in the races in much better condition. The birds had advanced in the moult like darkness youngsters and looked like a yearling. When racing came he had a better turned out team and had a good season, he bathed his birds every other day up until training then 1/2 a week. Mine had 1/3 a week yet it made a difference, I think baths are esential to a pigeons well being.

Kev shall write this bit of information in my folder as this was good to keep

Always gave youngbirds a bath 2 to 3 times a week this helped relax them and if the weather was hot then have let the birds bath about 2 hours before basketing, doing this the birds put all there feathers straight better then you can as they will prun thereself till every feather is correctly positioned

Started doing this after i was told this by Taffy Bowen when i was his steward at the old commarades show when it was held at the nec

Will say always bath my widowhood cocks by hand after the race and after the hens had been removed this helped relax the cocks and the water was always warm