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[Newbie2020]

I have been to the vet due to my birds having watery droppings. He checked and prescribed canker pills and haxmatia drugs. Amoxicillin was given for 5 days. My birds are still producing watery droppings like the one below. Can anyone offer any advice please?

 

 

[Guest strapper]

I have been to the vet due to my birds having watery droppings. He checked and prescribed canker pills and haxmatia drugs. Amoxicillin was given for 5 days. My birds are still producing watery droppings like the one below. Can anyone offer any advice please?

 

 

hi canker treatment is very similar to treatment for hexamita...ie emtryl....but not the rubbish they sell you these days...it aint the same...as it was 4yrs a go.

[paul10121968]

that looks like a dropping from a very hungry pigeon to me,sometimes when they dont have a feed for a while they produce very wet, wattery,green slimey droppings.i,m not saying you are underfeeding,i,m saying that for some reason this bird doesn,t seem to be getting much food,maybe canker is the problem and he can,t swallow corn properly.just a thought.

[paul10121968]

open the birds beak and have a look down his throat if its canker you will see a whiteish growth lining the inside of his throat,this is canker.it can be scraped away carefully but this is only a short term cure.they must be treated for it.

[paul10121968]

there are lots of threads on here concerning the topic of watery droppings,it can be caused by a variety of complaints,its not easy to diagnose i,m afraid.

[ch pied]

  To treat thrico which is a protazoa , as is hexamitia but more of a hanger on type , not allway's found side by side with thrico , you need an anti-protozoal med which is not an anti-bio  . Amoxi being an anti-bio is good for gram+ & gram - bactriia . it will in some case's knock the cocci count down to safe leval's . go see him again . ask him to check the cocci count .

[Newbie2020]

I have checked the inside of the mouth and all is fine and clear. This pigeon whenever on his own resting looks like this. When you go near her, she pucks back up normal. The feather seem to stand on end? Anyone experienced this before?

[Guest bigda]

looks like you have paratyphoids  mate mice in yer shed

[phillips]

bactira infection mate you need to get hold of some cyperfloxin 200 1ml to 2lts 5/7 days then give vita pro combi for 7 days

hope this helps

[Newbie2020]

Hiya Bigda, there is no way mice can get into the shed. It is like fort knocks. Even if they got into the first section (which is no possible) there is another door to get through into the main loft. There is no chance of this what so ever. I really am at a loss and getting fed up with this really quickly. I am planning on another visit back to the vet. I have been reading up on paramyxo but my birds have all be vaccinated. I just dont know what else to do.

[DAVIDL]

 

  might seem a silly question but having seen the pigeon has a race rubber still on its leg, obviously it didnt home in race time......has it had a night/nights out ? if so what condition was it in when it got home ? looks flown down to me.......only a thought, dont all bite my head off........could be just something simple.  

[Newbie2020]

does anyone know where I can get some ciprofloxacin from?

[Newbie2020]

The bird was sent last week and was my 1st bird home about 10 minutes behind the winner. However, she shouldnt be looking like that. I am sure I have some form of bacteria infection.

[REDCHEQHEN]

I would go back to the vet

make sure he does a crop swab and a vent swab - and take a droppings sample with you,

following extensive antibiotic treatment your bird(s) could have a yeast infection - which also causes watery droppings, as does cocci (and a million and one other things)

[REDCHEQHEN]

does anyone know where I can get some ciprofloxacin from?

 

Don't give any more antibiotics

[DAVIDL]

 

 

  ok, just a thought with the rubber still on its leg................     good luck.

[Guest Owen]

You must be new to this forum because there is an awful lot of very good advice readily available. No-one can really help you because there is not, and could not, be enough information to go on. There are a lot of decent, genuine Fanciers prepared to try to give you some information, but you have to go to a good Avian Vet to find out exactly what is happening to your birds and what to do about it.

One thing I will tell you though, weak pigeons subject to illness are never going to be any good to you as racers. It takes the best of the best to win races consistantly. So, if you are a serious pigeon racer, the bird you pictured is not the sort of bird to take you anywhere.

[Guest]

You must be new to this forum because there is an awful lot of very good advice readily available. No-one can really help you because there is not, and could not, be enough information to go on. There are a lot of decent, genuine Fanciers prepared to try to give you some information, but you have to go to a good Avian Vet to find out exactly what is happening to your birds and what to do about it.

One thing I will tell you though, weak pigeons subject to illness are never going to be any good to you as racers. It takes the best of the best to win races consistantly. So, if you are a serious pigeon racer, the bird you pictured is not the sort of bird to take you anywhere.

 

owen i  agree with you but the problem we all miss is there are very few good vets about that know anything about pigeons we all tell new fanciers to go to a good vet yet there are none to get to the bottom of things like this the bird needs to be taken to the vet and 99% of the time thats not possible so iam afraid blind treating will have to do i think it is a yeast infection i hope you get it sorted before it turns into something more serious

[Guest Davy Fleming]

Bang On Frank and they charge an arm and a leg and a chance it won't work because they can't tell without going into tests and then yes more money out  of our leagues. Go to Lancaster and see Gary Spavin  will cost £2 per bird plus any mediication and petrol money and he will tell you there and then.

[nittin vi]

I must agree that this bird will never come to anything no matter what it is bred out of,consider the rest of the birds and weed out the ones that may contaminate them itll save you a lot grief in the future,dispose now before you get in any deeper sorry

[Guest ljb107]

Hiya Bigda, there is no way mice can get into the shed. It is like fort knocks. Even if they got into the first section (which is no possible) there is another door to get through into the main loft. There is no chance of this what so ever. I really am at a loss and getting fed up with this really quickly. I am planning on another visit back to the vet. I have been reading up on paramyxo but my birds have all be vaccinated. I just dont know what else to do.

 

If mice can get their whiskers through, then they can get through - you can't keep them out.  They can get through 1/2 x 1/2 wire.

 

Lloyd