If u give only 8 hours dark the pigeons will not hold their wing, as it is not the darkness system. The darkness system only works if u provide more hours dark then light
If it was or is pmv you have got, have you vaccinated em yet? You do know parastop, is to treat paratyphus and not the paramyxio virus? If it is pmv, it can totaly ruin the kidneys and they may never have normal droppings again depending on the damage caused
How are you going to do this artificial insemination? I've seen how it's done at BIFS and it doesn't look like something you can do if not medically trained? How are you going to get a semen sample from this cock? Fair play to Ya for trying but Id be worried you'd do more damage internally then good.
Billy, I like to use one of or a combination of the 5-nitro-imidazole family, which are highly effective, however I do try to alternate which ones I would use.
I am similar to tony, however I do treat for a canker but a maximum 3 times a year, when on eggs, 3 weeks before the season and at the end of the season.
For widowhood I like the clay ones. I like the ones that are very deep, before I only had a few, but I conducted an auction and obtained 18 deep deep ones of the fancier that where all handmade and before the last war. For stock I like the German type with the mesh netting as I like a good air flow around the nests.
Lol pete, I don't know where these other fanciers mark their pigeons, but if you was marking your birds in London, we'd think you was taking the Micky tryna mark a wood pigeon, but saying that a red or mealy is rare down in the big smoke