Very interesting George. TREATMENT They are injected for Paramyxo every January, then immediately afterwards go onto Sulphatrim (a treatment against cocci, enteritis and general bacterial problems), and then they are on multivits before being wormed. The next time they are treated, assuming nothing goes wrong, is when they land from a fly four weeks before Palamos, when they have another 5-day treatment of Sulphatrim or, depending on what my hunch tells me, it could be Ronidazol for canker. I also used pigeon-approved smoke bombs for the first time last year, one month beforehand, and I’ll definitely be doing so again. When I treat in January I can’t honestly say I notice a difference in the pigeons, nor necessarily when I treat a month before Palamos, so it might be the blind leading the blind. I’ve not always been a treater – I would say I was pretty ignorant in my earlier days – but I have modernised over the last fifteen years.