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Taken from Jack Barkel's site 14 October 2000 1. Herpes 2. Flying -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Herpes Jack Barkel Hello Herman, and Members, Many times when people start treating for PMV, they think the vaccine will cure, vaccines cure nothing. To give a vaccine after a bird has contracted a disease, boosts the illness even more and can be fatal. We as fanciers must remember this before going crazy with medication. If your birds get Salmonella, Newcastle, Paratyphus,etc the first and most ridiculous diagnosis, by most fanciers and Vets is Paramyxo. It is as if it is the only word they know, and not only that, we in South Africa have not got the facilities to test for PMV!!. Yet our clever guys can diagnose it by site. What a poor bunch of specimens we have looking after the health of our pigeons. If your pigeons are showing signs of these several diseases I have just mentioned, it is nearly certain as I have proved by curing peoples pigeons for them, that what there birds have contracted is nothing more than the Herpes Virus. But in my opinion because it is so easily and cheaply cured no assistance will be forthcoming from the guys who provide all the expensive vaccines and anti-biotics. Many lofts harbour infected birds, and 75% of pigeons tested have shown to have this viral disease. Still the powers that be concentrate on PMV and not Herpes Virus, I still say it is money that creates this shocking brain washing of the fancier, nothing else. If you live in South Africa, and you have your birds tested for PMV, show me the lab report and signature and I will show you an untrue document unless it was sent overseas to be analysed. If one treats their birds for Herpes Virus you will have a healthy loft within a week. I can provide evidence of many lofts that were treated professionally for weeks for PMV with no improvement whatsoever. They have come to me, and the following week are back in the clock, I am not a clever guy, do not get me wrong, I learn from genuine people not commercialists, it is cheap and easy to keep your birds healthy. I hire a virologist to keep my birds healthy, I have too many birds, to run these lofts any other way, therefore I have no microscopes any more or other testing equipment. But I learn from people who get paid for results not for how much useless medication they can sell me. Herpes Virus (PHV) has even been described as an Avian Paramyxovirus type 1. It can look like Newcastle, Canker and Paratyphus all rolled into one. It can effect the digestive tract as well as the nervous system that is why people are too willing to believe they have an incurable disease. Treatment: Purchase Virkon S, it kills all 18 viruses known to your pigeons and the price will not make a hole in a school child's pocket money. Read the dilutions on the packet, and disinfect the entire loft with this solution. Mix one teaspoon = 5-grams on 10 litres or 2-Gallons of drinking water for three days and your birds will recover, then for three days give them a flora treatment to replace the good germs in the gut tract. It is cheap, it is easy, and IT WORKS, simply because you are using the correct product for the 18 viral diseases known to pigeons. I do not say that other treatments are no good, but I do know I have one of the healthiest lofts in South Africa, housing hundreds of birds at any one time. It is a business and it is run as a business, no margin for mistakes. No unnecessary medication, this all creates unnecessary overheads and immunity problems. I do not say that you must do it my way and I have no intention of offending anyone other than those who earn a living by being less than truthful in order to bleed the pigeon fanciers dry. I learn from the people who keep my lofts and birds squeaky clean and I pass it on to other fanciers, so that maybe they can use what I consider valuable information in maintaining HEALTHY PIGEONS. I would give 1-Teaspoon of VirkonS on ten Litres one day every two weeks to ensure that my birds remain germ free. Yours in Sport Jack Barkel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bangla ? (Bangladesh)

Don't buy birds at Lier market without a vetinary vaccination certificate - they are usually supplied - but make sure you vaccinate again with your own youngsters just in case

Just an observation - but I have looked at 'recent members' on a few ocassions - and they don't appear to validate their e-mail addresses, or the account is disabled in the blink of an eye !!

No, not essential - I have more hens than cocks so can't pair all hens up - but they will get to see a cock before racing

Bubwith with the UNC - 56 miles to me Open race last week in March (don't usually send) First race 3rd April

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Leave it alone as it will dry up and drop off without any interference

Looks like a grizzle or pied head and neck but mealie bars

I bought a bag of safflower guaranteed 99.9% or something like that - it had 10% sh*te in it ! From Johnson & Jeff and I DID complain they just ignored it - so you saved yourself from getting really annoyed !!

there wasn't any on mine obviously lead a much more boring life than you lot (evil)(sleeping)(sleeping)

whats the matter with using the plastic milk 'bottles' to measure with - they have litres and pints marked on them - and providing you use the milk - they cost nothing

Does it feel hotter than the other leg (inflammation)

take it back and complain

Just like mac1 is looking at his wife's car - my other half normally looks after mine - but he was at work (evil) my car is almost 10 years old - I've had it 8 years - and the battery is the same age as the car (but it has done less than 50,000 miles and is serviced etc every year)

My car is always doing things like this in wet weather - but soon reverts back to normal -'firing on two cylinders' (whatever that means - and incidentally only has 3 just in case you think it should have 4) I had to lift the bonnet this morning - I think thats the first time I've done it in the 8 years I've had the car, batteries don't last forever - I had to get a new one today but needed a jump start to get to the garage

Is it only 40 bags to a pallet (not 50)

This has happened a few times to me with different hens - egg broken and almost totally covered by the underbelly feathers - broken egg stuck to the bare skin of the hens

Sparrow hawks 'hover' - as in they flap their wings and stay in the same place especially when fixated on their prey - then they pounce

My neice got salmonella poisoning when she was 4 months pregnant with her first child (26 YEARS AGO) her child was born with salmonella. My neice is a carrier - she had 2 more children, both had 2 be delivered by caesarean section and were given antibiotics AT BIRTH. The last one born 15 years after her intial 'poisoning' The carrier state is in her reproductive organs So it exists in humans also

I can't see how it can be against the rules when foreign fanciers are encouraged to buy and breed and put youngsters in the BREEDER BUYER sections of the gold ring races bearing GB (Vanroboeys etc) rings to be raced in this country ie - the foreign fancier buys the ring and sends the birds over here to be bought and raced by British fanciers

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Lovely youngsters - I'm getting soooo broody ;D ;D ;D

Avisal - not used (Don't know what it is) red cell - have used but don't think I would buy again Ronidazol - do use (alongside a few others alternating treatment) gemthepax - use all year round orego stim - use all year round doxycycline - have used but wouldn't be my first choice sedochol - do use during the moult along with naturaline tkk - never used parastop - never used - and there are a few manufacturers calling their product by the same name using different 'ingredients' I prefer to use something that I know the ingredients of so wouldn't use De Weerdt's anyway)

There was merial sedochol available at Blackpool - £15 for 500mls The one Murray & Mills had - I'm sure was in a dark bottle with a blue label (Gentisol???) with a Sedochol over sticker on