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Any contacts for them please?

What gains is there from using this, I know it is used for worming animals

You seem to know a lot about how the site works for a newbe. Have you been on the site before under a different name?

Aye fair comment, but when I phoned the royal vet school asking what to do, they put me in touch with the VLA, if I knew about SACC and a number then I would have contacted them, a lot of people would have put the pigeon in the bin

Having read the origonal thread on the for sale section, Harky's comment would only be fair if was true that a member only used the site to sell birds :-/

If theres a place on the site, as in pigeons for sale etc, then why would anyone object to one using it, maybe there should be a place on the site for donations received against list of names or visa versa We have had some cracking pigeons from members which probably would not have if not for the "for sale" section

No you are jimmy We're no saying the sacc is defra, the VLA is a part of defra, I phone the bush vetinary clinic about sick pigeon that was on "info please post" as we were heading to penicuik. They directed me to the VLA, who were most helpful, I thought you would know about this department "VLA" with it being on your doorstep Anyway ma pigeons deed, its nestmate is looking healthy, the vet recons its a one off, Chickadees happy, Bruno did his best as usual, and away to ma bed ;D ;D ;D

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Aye its something when a fifer has to tell you about your local services ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Do you think ma test results are coatia

It was them that put me onto the VLA

Aye they used to be a defra department at Lasswade and still addressed as same, but they have moved to the Bush estate, just off the Gowkley Moss roundabout You need to get out more in your area no far fae pentland park ;D ;D ;D

Cheers bruno, I thought I was good at net searching, sounds spot on and hope to get clearer understanding when I speak to vet

Aye, sorry but its been a long week, thinking we had paramyxo and maybe going to loose all our birds Will post results when I speak to vet

Aye and if you take your pigeon along as I did they will test that too, I am sure all the above catch similar ailments and tested for same You seem to be questioning validity of report or am I wrong

But Herpesvirus is. Said to be no obvious symptoms other than the bird just isn't right: hunched, fluffed feathers, moves jerkily. Abnormal head posture and crooked neck. Worth querying what the organism was. Will do, any more info on Herpesvirus, this was similar to symtems of bird

Check out their site Jimmy its seem to be up on avian as well

Vetinery Laboritory agency a part of Defra www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/forms/vla

You'll recognise two names tho : herpesvirus and streptococcus [enterococcus] as pigeon pathogens, the 'human' versions of which can cause meningitis in humans. Interesting. How serious are these, the report suggested there was nothing to worry about as the tests were all clear, and trivialised the meningitis

I think you need to go to the Bush Estate for testing

Yes but some become clear of the virus also :-/

Too simple for me ;D ;D ;D

Your the man Bruno

It was the VLA at the Bush

Or silver thrupennies in the cloutie ;D ;D ;D

I think jimmy white will confim that mr wood is a top avian vet