Elvan Willgrass

I will try the DoxyT if I can find where to get it. No other bird is affected and I don't want to kill it as it was gifted to me from a very good distance loft.

I have a young bird that seems to have a very bad head cold and catarrh. It first came to my notice when it did not exercise for long and it was loosing weight by not eating much plus it was wheezing terrible. I put it in a empty loft that I have and treated it with Rhonfield Gambazine, Ornithose and Nasaline, it did improve and started to eat again but it is a long way from being right as it is panting all the time just like someone with very bad asthma. I have raced birds since the early nineteen fifty's and have never had a bird like this. Does anybody know how I might sort this bird out, it has never raced and I never wanted it to. My loft a 45ft consrtuction was built with ventilation in mind.

How can you tell if a yearling is carrying nest flights?

Can Condice Crystals harm pigeons if used in the bath water? I use them in the bath water to keep the feather lice down but I am told the vapours can burn the bird’s lungs although the bathing is always done outside. I have used the drops etc. but it is a bit of a job to hold the bird and put the drops as I am a one-man band. Are there any other things that can be put in the water for this purpose?

Is there any organisations flying north as far as Lerwick that a northeast fancier could join.