YB sickness

charcoal is a tried and tested treatment it is used for people who over dose on drugs or chemicals
it flushes out there system straight away and makes them sick it will cost less then a fiver .
ive read about it on other sites and it works , so either take my advice or see your birds go sick i know what i would do . cheers kev

were can i get it from ?

boots chemist

i used the charcoal to but the problem is if they contract a secondary pathogen which most lofts are

ill see if i can get some and try it out

i think there are a few different opinions on treating YBs chris, before i had the nifuramycin i didnt feed for 24 hours, and added a product called "magic" to the water which is a probiotic for the digestive system.......as darren says sometimes they get secondary problems which i think is like paratyphoid etc where they cant stand or fly and the body shuts down and they die........this is just my opinion becaue before i knew how to treat efectively this happened to me a few years ago......

maybe im bein para but this morning when i checked my birds there was no thrown up corn and no dark green wet dropping :S maybe the sudden cold and rain upset them the day before ?

have you treated them in any way chris ? ive heard from others that pecking around in the garden can cause these sort of symptums......... altho i let mine do it and they are usually ok.

peel bros wrote:

i,ve been told i,m wrong about this but i heard they only get it once,has anyone had it twice in the same year.if so i will love to know as i will put it to the bloke who told me ..i have never had it twice in one season myself

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mine peck around on the roof witch i hate but i dont mine them in the garden pecking around but seem ok today :S flew for an hour came in stright away and i gave them a light feed only think i gave them today and yesaday was apple cider vinager coz a bloke told me to and said if they ok in the morning then they just picked up somthink

peel bros wrote:

peel bros wrote:

i,ve been told i,m wrong about this but i heard they only get it once,has anyone had it twice in the same year.if so i will love to know as i will put it to the bloke who told me ..i have never had it twice in one season myself

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ray, ive heard of someone having it more than once in a season..........but youve got to ask yourself was it actually YB sickness ?

YB sickness might be just a blanket term for any illness ybs get, you yourself know about paratyphiod, salmonella etc, they are all nasty illnesses to have.

exactly david,,some people when there birds are bad think its yb sickness straight away...i know nothing but some think they know it all do,nt they...

[quote="peel bros"]exactly david,,some people when there birds are bad think its yb sickness straight away...i know nothing but some think they know it all do,nt they...[/quote
as it was me who told you you can get it more than once ray , so you think that i think i know it all , just telling you what i know , in future ill keep my comments to my self

no ian i,m just on about people in general,do,nt go in a huff .god you call me for it ,your even worse ....i can also put my point over as well as anyone as you know.without going in a huff......we are all here to put our opinion on are ,nt we..i,m just going off what he told me and i think he knows a lot more than me and you on pigeon illnesses.....you think your right i think he is its just the way it is.i know you know more than me on these matters and i listen to you as you know,but sometimes we can be wrong

if i dont know then i say i dont but when i know people who have had it more than once then i know its a fact, as you know ray you cant get the same flu virus twice but we get the flu lots of times , why is this , because its a different strain ,

fair enough ian,but when i,m told off rod i,ve got to believe him as would you.i,m not saying your wrong as i would agree with you ,i would think they would get different strains of it .....

i think a lot of fanciers just assume that if their ybs ars being sick, have watery droppings and hunched up it is "young bird sickness" what exactly is young beird sickness ? as far as im aware its a bacterial infection in the digestive system but as other members point out, secondry illness`s occur which are a problem

David wrote:

i think a lot of fanciers just assume that if their ybs ars being sick, have watery droppings and hunched up it is "young bird sickness" what exactly is young beird sickness ? as far as im aware its a bacterial infection in the digestive system but as other members point out, secondry illness`s occur which are a problem

That is YBS David "a bacterial infection"

yes don, a bacterial infection in the crop/digestive system..........altho as we know it can lead to other illnesses if not treated quick enough.