feather rot help

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

phil411 wrote:

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

hi phil, is it on just one bird ? is it possible it could be a mark where the bird is leaning in to drink or eat maybe.....? what symptums is it showing phil....?

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

rudderfett wrote:

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..

wish id have known this before when the shows were on martyn, like don says i could have made myself a pied as i didnt have any..........

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........

my croppers get bald patches on the crop and the skin looks a bit dry.i have a tube of cream thats for athletes foot and it works good.it may be a fungus infection on the skin.rub it into the bald patch and then wash it off a few hours later.

Leave it to soak in, don't wash it of

liquid parafin is and old treatment for feather rot
not seen f/rot for a lot of years now

That is something to remember in the future

I was reading through some of the old posts and this one was of interest to me and I have the solution to the problem.
when a bird begins to lose its feathers firstly in the crop area and then it get worse and eventually the skin will turn black and it will have a completely bald chest if left for years untreated.
It looks like some kind of feather rot but in fact it is a tiny mite that lives in the skin of the bird, it is called the de pluming mite and is similar to scabies in a human.
You can buy a product called Borst ork from belga vet which is a cream that you apply to the bald crop area of any bird showing signs of feather loss in that area and massage the cream into the birds skin and up its neck and under the beak.
Do this 2 or 3 times and the mite will be killed and the feathers will grow back.
Another way is buy some flowers of Sulphur, this is a powder from around volcanoes mix this powder 50/50 with a water based moisturising creme and apply this in the same way.
It works just the same and solves the problem every time. I came across this in Portugal and using this method we cleaned up the infection of these mites in a few lofts that had the problem.
If you just ignore it it will spread among many birds and infest other fanciers birds if you race the carriers.
If you race or train a bird with a bald chest and the wind is very cold and in the face the birds urine could freeze causing the bird discomfort or worse due to the bald chest area having no insulation from the cold.

you could also bathe them in a borax solution.
this will rid the mites

spencerline wrote:

I was reading through some of the old posts and this one was of interest to me and I have the solution to the problem.
when a bird begins to lose its feathers firstly in the crop area and then it get worse and eventually the skin will turn black and it will have a completely bald chest if left for years untreated.
It looks like some kind of feather rot but in fact it is a tiny mite that lives in the skin of the bird, it is called the de pluming mite and is similar to scabies in a human.
You can buy a product called Borst ork from belga vet which is a cream that you apply to the bald crop area of any bird showing signs of feather loss in that area and massage the cream into the birds skin and up its neck and under the beak.
Do this 2 or 3 times and the mite will be killed and the feathers will grow back.
Another way is buy some flowers of Sulphur, this is a powder from around volcanoes mix this powder 50/50 with a water based moisturising creme and apply this in the same way.
It works just the same and solves the problem every time. I came across this in Portugal and using this method we cleaned up the infection of these mites in a few lofts that had the problem.
If you just ignore it it will spread among many birds and infest other fanciers birds if you race the carriers.
If you race or train a bird with a bald chest and the wind is very cold and in the face the birds urine could freeze causing the bird discomfort or worse due to the bald chest area having no insulation from the cold.

Interesting reading

spencerline wrote:

I was reading through some of the old posts and this one was of interest to me and I have the solution to the problem.
when a bird begins to lose its feathers firstly in the crop area and then it get worse and eventually the skin will turn black and it will have a completely bald chest if left for years untreated.
It looks like some kind of feather rot but in fact it is a tiny mite that lives in the skin of the bird, it is called the de pluming mite and is similar to scabies in a human.
You can buy a product called Borst ork from belga vet which is a cream that you apply to the bald crop area of any bird showing signs of feather loss in that area and massage the cream into the birds skin and up its neck and under the beak.
Do this 2 or 3 times and the mite will be killed and the feathers will grow back.
Another way is buy some flowers of Sulphur, this is a powder from around volcanoes mix this powder 50/50 with a water based moisturising creme and apply this in the same way.
It works just the same and solves the problem every time. I came across this in Portugal and using this method we cleaned up the infection of these mites in a few lofts that had the problem.
If you just ignore it it will spread among many birds and infest other fanciers birds if you race the carriers.
If you race or train a bird with a bald chest and the wind is very cold and in the face the birds urine could freeze causing the bird discomfort or worse due to the bald chest area having no insulation from the cold.

you can also buy a product called ALUGAN this is also for feather mite, but just a long shot are you sure that the birds are not rubing themselves on the drinkers or feeders, please check these loft items to make sure that there are no sharp edges, worth a go.

sure we used alugan on our dog years ago for fleas etc, it was in a foil packet and was very good, for some reason the vets stopped supplying it....

whoops