Crop yeast

Been having a problem with this with a couple of young birds not the same ones keeps recurring what do members use for this

Mark have a look at Campden tablets used in making wine, cheap as chips ,can't remember dosage so look into it before deciding yourself. 1/4 tab down hatch rings a bell, but they also dissolve in drinker please check first!

barnie wrote:

Mark have a look at Campden tablets used in making wine, cheap as chips ,can't remember dosage so look into it before deciding yourself. 1/4 tab down hatch rings a bell, but they also dissolve in drinker please check first!

Same, same or similar maybe     to some thing I have here Barnie etc . it's called Sodium Benzoate powder, which is used in the wine industry as such also & has been of use by me at times when having an issue like Mark appears to have there.

had same problem with a hen not so long ago and gave charcoal tablets 2 times a day for 3 days also avidress in the water ...fennel tea is another option have heard about the wine stabiliser but the above has always sorted it for me I always have black mineral down ok it has to be changed in damp weather frequently but seems to keep things ticking over nicely for the breeders and ybs atb

Knackered wrote:

barnie wrote:

Mark have a look at Campden tablets used in making wine, cheap as chips ,can't remember dosage so look into it before deciding yourself. 1/4 tab down hatch rings a bell, but they also dissolve in drinker please check first!

Same, same or similar maybe     to some thing I have here Barnie etc . it's called Sodium Benzoate powder, which is used in the wine industry as such also & has been of use by me at times when having an issue like Mark appears to have there.

Can you remember the dosage Knack?

barnie wrote:

Knackered wrote:

barnie wrote:

Mark have a look at Campden tablets used in making wine, cheap as chips ,can't remember dosage so look into it before deciding yourself. 1/4 tab down hatch rings a bell, but they also dissolve in drinker please check first!

Same, same or similar maybe     to some thing I have here Barnie etc . it's called Sodium Benzoate powder, which is used in the wine industry as such also & has been of use by me at times when having an issue like Mark appears to have there.

Can you remember the dosage Knack?

Tea spoon to a litre etc & if no success for what ever reason. Soup spoon to a litre Barnie Maximum, 3 days.
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whats the symptoms mark...?

The young birds one or two hold corn over night and through the day and are usually a little quiet then they seem to get over it and another one or maybe two go down with it no vomiting or runny droppings and none of them have sour crop like young bird sickness so I think it might be a crop imbalance

kilpatricks black minerals ad lib is all that's required it contains charcoal and iodine I swear by it but they need access 24/7 then these things rarely arise for those showing signs at present I would give a few charcoal tablets atb

Thanks daz I will try and get some tomorrow when I go and get my corn got avidress in the water every day

Agree with oldstrain, always had black minerals or fine coal dust available that dealt with many digestive issues etc; if they ever arose because I never had any.

I believe the black minerals were in fact manufactured from the washings from the coal when making coalite.

Just as all the dusting powders etc; are made from lime in my opinion but just dressed up.

Regards.

markevans wrote:

Thanks daz I will try and get some tomorrow when I go and get my corn got avidress in the water every day

get um from boots for 1/3rd the price m8 pop 2 into them right away

I give black minerals every day 365 days a year.........

Never had them. But again, my birds are basically ground pickers. Turf in the stock loft occasionally. Not feasible for all. Semi-open loft.

If pigeons are on open hole they naturally know what is right and what is wrong to eat and drink, far better than we do, very different from letting them out twice a day and then getting them straight back in, when late or lost they hit a problem and eat and drink anything at hand.

Today in many cases it is like keeping pigeons as far away from nature as possible and expecting them to behave in a natural manner.

Regards.

I scattered grit over the garden slabs. Gave then contentment picking around. Especially the youngster when settling them out.


Minerals same. Coal I used crushed.
When a pigeon picks and misses, some charcoal did wonders.

Got some kilpatrick black minerals today going to give them some this afternoon

Oops! Years ago gave them a block of cattle minerals.

Many fanciers used to have a block of rock salt, also I believe used for farm animals.

Regards.

Still have a blue salt block. Seldom do the birds pick at it.

Yes had a salt block on the platform many years ago young birds pecked at it but nothing els think the rain washed most of it away

if it remember right, I think Raymond had a bad experience with cattle licks.........one of his good hens died due to eating too much of it......

If my memory serves me right I think some blocks had iodine in them.

The fact is that if on open hole a pigeon will not normally touch anything harmful.

Regards.

markevans wrote:

Yes had a salt block on the platform many years ago young birds pecked at it but nothing els think the rain washed most of it away

the minerals you have purchased are by far the best imo they contain charcoal,iodine and salt all for the price of a pint a beer I buy a box of the stuff every year containing 12 packs

Iodine etc, were all in the livestock blocks. Still have some around but do not feed them. They ignore them. Same as the pile I burn wood on. Ignore the stuff nowadays.