Young bird sickness

Youngens have only been away a couple of weeks, and had the first one go down hill, it didn't come down for its food then next day it sicked up what was in its crop.
I didn't treat it straight away as I wanted the others to get it mildly.
The next day a few of them were hunched up on their perches with wet droppings dark green to brown in colour.

Treatment.
Double dose of RopaB added to the drinker, then just top it up for 4 days as long as it's clean.
1st day, I put a teaspoon of water on their food then mix in a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon. Then for the next 3 days half the amount of cinnamon.
They were bouncing when I got home from work tonight, all over me for their feed, and droppings back to hard little marbles.
I experimented last year with normal strength Ropa b and it didn't shift it until I doubled the strength, and added the cinnamon, that's 2 years on the trot it's worked now so I thought I'd share it.

thanks for sharing boosey, I`m  sure our other members will appreciate the info too.....glad to hear your birds are back to good health again

Well done boosey for sharing that with us its information like that can make all the difference in saving our young birds or losing them

yes your right mark, sometimes reaching for the antibiotics too soon gets you in more trouble..........I know through personal experience a few years ago........

Yep its easy to panic and go for the antibiotics but you need to stay calm and see how they go over 24 hours if no change or they seem to be worse then treat

I had yb sickness about 6 years ago, only time ive ever had it........i gave them nifuramycin for a week, it cleared it up ok and ive never had it since, although ive not raced if that's anything to do with it

Boosey wrote:

Youngens have only been away a couple of weeks, and had the first one go down hill, it didn't come down for its food then next day it sicked up what was in its crop.
I didn't treat it straight away as I wanted the others to get it mildly.
The next day a few of them were hunched up on their perches with wet droppings dark green to brown in colour.

Treatment.
Double dose of RopaB added to the drinker, then just top it up for 4 days as long as it's clean.
1st day, I put a teaspoon of water on their food then mix in a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon. Then for the next 3 days half the amount of cinnamon.
They were bouncing when I got home from work tonight, all over me for their feed, and droppings back to hard little marbles.
I experimented last year with normal strength Ropa b and it didn't shift it until I doubled the strength, and added the cinnamon, that's 2 years on the trot it's worked now so I thought I'd share it.

Excellent post Boosey by stepping outside of the square so to speak it appears you have taken a large step foreward etc. So well done on your effort & I'm quite sure some here will benefit from your experience/tale.

well done steve ...a good 2 pronged attack of oregano and cinnamon both good natural products

After the four days I put dioralites in the water. So they hopefully don't get any secondary problems

I had one yb bad but we sorted that out ..treated the rest

Great little tip Steve, I am going to take that on board and add it to my general notes on all things pigeon.

Just to clarify you said a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon, presumably cinnamon powder, and that added to what amount of food would you estimate?

Also, how much Dioralyte to how much water please?

phingers Phil

Added cinnamon to 500ml mark on measuring jug of food, and I use half a packet of dioralite to a 1.5 litre drinker after the 4 day course.

Great post Steve natural things everytime