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Pigeons & wet canker

All pigeon Fanciers has had pigeons for many years, it is for most of them from genreation to generation, from father to son, they know what wet canker is. The yellow glum seen in the throat of the bird is knows as the dry form of the disease. As pigeons gets older, they develop a natural immunity to the canker & as a result their response to the canker organisms is better. Squab & young birds who have not yet developed a natural immunity system come under stress and are exposed to large numbers of the cankers form, it quickly develop a severe infection, with large numbers of the organisms present, and the characteristic yellow material becoming visible. Most young birds have a few trichs (canker organisms) in their throats.

 

 

This is not a problem. This low-grade, ongoing exposure stimulates the development of a natural immunity in the young growing pigeon. As the pigeon becomes older and its natural immunity rises, it therefore becomes harder and harder for them to develop visible canker. But in pigeons of any age, there are always a few trich organisms present. The numbers tend to rise and fall, principally depending on what stress the birds are under and the level of exposure to the organism. In race baskets, canker organisms quickly spread through the drinker and the race itself provides no end of stress – time away from the loft, altered feeding patterns, exertion, exposure to predation, etc. Because of this, canker organisms fluctuate in the throat throughout the season. Usually nothing is visible to the fancier. In very high levels, the throat might appear a bit red or mucousy but this is very subjective. Often when testing birds with what appear to be good throats, high levels are found and vice versa. Trichomonads are primary parasites, taking nutrition that would otherwise be available to the birds and releasing toxins into their system. As trichomonad levels rise, race performance drops away. Fanciers who try to race teams with high trichomonad levels can expect to win fewer prizes and lose more birds. Birds with elevated trichomonad levels are said to have wet canker.

The best way to recognize this problem is to get some saliva from the back of the birds throat and top of the crop examined under a microscope. This is a simple test, it takes a couple of minutes for a veterinarian.

 

 

The other method is to buy a microscope and do the test yourself. The test is easy to do, the organisms are easy to identify, and the technique is set out.

 

The positive thing about recognizing the canker is that drugs are used when they are needed and not given when a negative result is returned. A prevention treatment with natural products increasing from the beginning the immune system of the birds will decrease the risks of having canker any time during the year, Improver & AntiFungal are suggested.

 

 

To treat wet canker , all effective drugs that treat canker fall into a group called the nitro-imidazoles. They are available under many different brands but if you look on the label they will contain one of the following five active ingredients. The five commonly used nitro-immidazoles are ronidazole, Metronidazole, Secnidazole, Carnidazole, Dimetridazole.

 

These products will take a lot of energy out of your birds to cure them and you will need many days to be able to see them train again, having said that the best way to do a proper treatment is again and again a prevention with Improver and AntiFungal, no pigeon fancier today wants to treat a problem when it occurs, everyone wants to anticipate any problems, after all, most of the time spent with the pigeons should be for the care and the racing.

 

The best preventive patent protected non chemical products in the market are Improver & AntiFungal from Pigeon Vitality in Norway. With exclusive ingredient from Finland and Norway, the blended formula have been recognized for its natural efficience against most of the pigeon diseases for more than 10 years. A medical cure is only needed if the canker symthops are heavy and a quick treatment is urgently needed.

 

Even though you may be regularly treating for wet canker, e.g. 2 – 3 days every 2 – 3 weeks, you cannot guarantee that any particular drug is killing your particular canker strain. Resistance to all these drugs is seen. It is a good idea to have occasional crop flushes done, even if treating regularly, to ensure the drug is doing its job. Failing that, swapping from one drug to another periodically,eg Turbosole for three treatments and then one Spatrix treatment, and then back to Turbosole, often heads off the development of any resistance.

 

Basically, the way we approach canker is – avoid treating young pigeons with medicine unless the disease actually makes them sick, use preventive products that will act like a green vaccine. If we find a few trichs in the crop flush of a young pigeon, we would elect no treatment. Let them have the exposure they need to develop their natural immunity. Treating healthy young pigeons serves no purpose and simply interrupts this exposure and delays the development of a natural immunity. Once racing starts, it is however a completely different ball game. Having given the birds as long as possible to develop their natural immunity, we must ensure that birds going to the races have no trichs present, otherwise they simply can’t give of their best.

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