Young bird sickness simple cure. I know this is an older post but it still shows up in google under, "young bird sickness". I figured it might save folks a few loved birds to know what I was fortunate enough to learn before any were lost. I promise it works! It's cheep and it takes less than two days which is far better than most meds and much easier on the birds. And it has zero side effects!
I found out about it a few years back when we had a sick Roller pigeon. He far too beautiful to allow too waist away but we could not afford a vet or meds. So I searched the net and was shocked to read about cinnamon on a ladies blog about her birds. We tried it and he fully recovered within 24 hours. By 48 he was so rambunctious he made the rest look like they needed some too...lol Lethargy? Sleepy, slow moving is one of the effects of young bird sickness. So I watered down the cinamon and added it to all of their water for 48 hours and they all came right back to normal. In my case I think they actually had a cold. What the cinamon does is warm them up and speed up their systems just enough so they can get over the effects of the virus. Anyways the lady claimed it worked for young bird sickness and i have not lost a single bird to illness thanks to her. Once their system has returned to normal adding greens seems to help keep them that way. If their gutt gets overly acidic or too neutral they get the runs. The chlorophil keeps their gutt just right and a healty gutt allows them to keep saminilla and other such things in check. They always have it with them but they are healty and so their immune systems can keep it it check. Think of cinamon as a temporary immune booster.
I have since learned that Cinnamons is a powerful anti-microbial agent that kill can kill E. coli and other bacteria.
How Much - "One spoon of Cinnamon mixed with 1/2 a pint of hot water add to water fountain, Birds should be on the mend within 24 hrs"
The above was for one pigeon. I made a second batch using the same directions and added it to our 2 gallon jug which i use to water all the coops for the next 2 days. Within 48 hours there was no longer anything wrong in any of the coops. I reciently spoke with a veteran breeder and he explained young birds just starting the first molt no longer have the immunities given them by their parents. The amunities use to be in a gland. The gland that use to cause them to squeek which has shrunk by the time they molt. It use to help protect them but now without the immunities a virus gets into the gland and they get young bird sickness. I have noticed this is no different than with our kids. Each fall the first cold snap hits and within a week colds and worse are hitting them one after the other. A little cinnamon can save your bird, if you don't have any borrow some from a neighbor. While your at it make a cinnamon tea for yourself and sweeten it with honey. Got kids? Make lots!
