i think the same a bird does not no its a sprinter or distance if i gave you a distance bird and told you it was a sprinter you would feed and manage it different a good bird is a good bird in the egg
handed to me by a pigeon facier in south sheilds,spent i night in a basket in my coal shed lib it monday morning just gone outside lo and behold the bird is back in my coal shed
if a bird has a dirty wattle i put a few drops in drinking water clears it up a treat, good enough for my kids good enough for my birds!!!!!!!!!(not that my kids have dirty wattles)
get a friend with a ferret and when he cleans them out get all the muck from his cages spread this around where the rats are living, they wont be around for long