Vitamins and Medications

Vitamins and Medications

With the birds on the darkening system, I feel they need plenty of vitamins to help in the production and growth of feather and body structure (size). I give vitamins 2 to 3 times per week to all my birds, breeders, old birds and young birds, all year-round.

I use Windsmore vitamins and an electrolyte poultry vitamin. I get the vitamins from Jedd's Pigeon Supply. I also use Red Cell, which is an iron rich horse vitamin. I purchase the Red Cell at a Farm Supply store. I also use apple cider vinegar and minced garlic. I buy these at the local grocery store.

The past two years, I have been using Acid Pack from the Chisolm Trail Company. I have been using it in place of the apple cider vinegar, that I used to use. It neutralized the PH in the water. I use it only with my young birds during the summer while I am training them.

All of these are added to the pigeons' water. I don't worry about mixing them together. The birds will drink the water no matter what is in it.

I am also using the Chisolm Train Health Blend. It comes in a powder form. I mist my feed with corn oil from a spray bottle, then sprinkle the powder on the feed and shake it up so that the powder is disbursed throughout the feed equally. I have been using this every day all year long with all of my pigeons for several years.

You need to be careful with medications. I have heard of people over-dosing their birds and killing them. Stay with the recommended amounts on the package. If it does not say, call and find out. Don't take a chance of killing your birds or hurting them for life.

I use Emtryl and Ridzol-s for canker, alternating them. For E-coli, coccidiosis, canker and paratyphoid, I use Dacoxine. This is a four in one medicine. For respiratory, I use Spiradac. With young birds, canker is the biggest problem and then coccidiosis.