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Sorry to go off topic, can anyone tell me how long it generally takes a pigeon to digest and eliminate the waste from a meal?

OK Jim, so you concur with spitting in the pigeons eye to help it?

A watery eye could be and most often is from a peck. If thats not the case and its an infection isolate and treat with a round of antibiotics.

Your mouth has the highest concentration of germs in your body.....typical?

If it had diarrea would you use that advice?

Les, old pal I see you've found a topic to your liking.............

18 yb's most to 250, some to 300, a few stopped at 200.

YAWN!

I thought it was a joke....where is A.S.......guess not eh.......

Right below your back......probably in the local pub........

Is anyone on here flying birds from A.S.?

Good reminder for me I've been chomping at the bit to get my birds to a certain distance so I can start racing when the fallback races start and the weather has been terrible for two weeks......but I'll keep em' home till its good enough.......

Thanks for sharing that Pete. Reminds us of what can happen.

How did that work for you? I'm in the same boat I'll have to start mine at 165, hoping to have them out to 105 before that happens.

Nine perches is not enough for ten birds better to have fifteen or more. Every time you feed them whistle and shake the feed can. Build an aviary where they can be outside the loft and see around. Keep them in for a week. After a week feed them a half ration in the morning open the aviary late in the day (low or no wind) let them out. When you are ready for them to come in whistle and shake the feed can. Do this daily until they are disappearing for a half hour or more. At this point you can start putting them in the crate and training them, release them from their own garden the first time or two. Take them 3 miles, if they return fine take them 5,10,20.....make sure the are coming good before moving them farther. On these short tosses you may want to loft fly them first, call them in for a few seeds (only a few) then basket them for the tosses. This will take the play out of them and they should come staright home. Good Luck!

Looks as if someone gave a bunch of 6 year olds hammers. Just kidding, it looks like a nice loft.

Are you saying plants don't give off oxygen in the day? I thought that was when photosynthesis occurred.

Throw an old sterile cock in with them.

Better to miss a race and know then to put other ppl's birds at risk.

Ditto

He already said it was diagnosed as Para. I'm wanting to know how he was directed to treat and what the current disposition is.

I'm talking about loft dander, dust, down, etc....change it regularly or wash it and you will see a marked increase in consumption.

See how much they like fresh grit compared to dusty grit ..... Oldfella

Hey Wattle, sorry for your troubles. I would like to know if you started treatment after diagnosis and what the current status is?

Birds don't like old grit. change it regularly, I use three types mixed. They especially like the Natural Granan with the clay base.