White Spots

[Wiley]

i was at a fanciers house today and i visit them fairly regularly,however went into his loft today and noticed in the a few of his birds throat one or two white spots what do these mean??

[markbrown]

Dont know how true, but i was always told by the elders that this was a sign that the birds are getting over an infection of some kind??

 

:-/ :-/

[Wiley]

yea i read something simiular in an old, old hand book saying its a scaring from an illness the birds have just got over,just wondering over people opinions so i can inform the fancier if anything was different

[Guest]

i was a;so told its a sign of scarring ............ but forgot to ask what the birds had suffered from . does anyone know ?  please post a reply ...thank you                                                         andy    8)

[Guest shadow]

sign of a bird carrying an infection or recovering from some form of infection

[mac1]

so how do you know if its carrying or recovering mate

[Wiley]

old hand says these white spots are the signs of an infection that has been thought and the white spots are tombs of where the infection tried to attack that certain part but had failed! It showed the birds was strong enough and has caused resistence to the infection.However he did say if you have deep litter these white spots wouldnt be shown!

[REDCHEQHEN]

http://www.chevita.com/tauben/e-index3.html

 

Look on the above for the following

 

White dots (throat)

Throat mucosa, white to grey dots

 

Salivary stones found in the beaks of pigeons

 

Candida (Thrush)

 

Raised white spots? May be the salivary stones

Cratered white spots? May be that mentioned - previous disease

 

[Silverdale Lofts]

Put a capful of tcp in gallon of water clears up in a couple of days

[Guest]

thanks very much for the link Redcheqhen ,     excellent site , and answer given .                                               thanks again       andy 8)

[Guest]

Wim Peters touched on this subject in his book. Says that it used to be regarded as a sign of some illness many years ago. But appears now that there is no medical evidence for that now.

 

I have not seen this ´condition´ and other than above have no personal knowledge of it. Faced with this for the first time I´d apply my own rule of thumb ...does anything else appear wrong with the bird? If not I´d tend to ignore it.

[Wiley]

Wim Peters touched on this subject in his book. Says that it used to be regarded as a sign of some illness many years ago. But appears now that there is no medical evidence for that now.

 

I have not seen this ´condition´ and other than above have no personal knowledge of it. Faced with this for the first time I´d apply my own rule of thumb ...does anything else appear wrong with the bird? If not I´d tend to ignore it.

 

nah the birds looked a full spill of health and the guys birds flew exceptionally well during the racing season topping the fed a couple of times. I couldnt have faulted these birds at all, but the fancier says he never looks in the beak, and he was suprised when i pointed this out,but thanks for everyones replies

[carl]

Wiley i have a hen she has always had three or four white spots on the back of her throat i have alway thought this was a problem but she has always flown well and always been treat the same as the rest.these white spots have been there all her life,,,maybe something maybe not..??

[Wiley]

i reckon they could just be scares of a past infection maybe carl

[carl]

i reckon they could just be scares of a past infection maybe carl

 

 

Im not sure wiley,,,,maybe ulsers of some sort

[Guest]

Maybe an odd thought, but sometimes I wonder if we go looking for trouble where there's none to be had?

 

Occurred to me after my last post that I've not had the urge or the need to look at any of my birds throats, and the last time that I had a bird's beak open was a few years back ... to administer an oral antibiotic prescribed by the vet.

[Guest]

according to old hand it is the result of bacteriel infection that the pigeon has got over they are supposedly scars and i thenk the cause is e coli whenever the small intestine gets into a state of imbalance wich can be caused by a lot of factors ,new grain etc i am quite sure if you were observant enough then you would have seen watery droppings but then again there is not many fanciers admit that they have this ,

[westy]

im sure someone told me that was canker before. not sure though.

[Wiley]

This is canker westy mate its nothing like what were talking about

[peterpau]

im sure someone told me that was canker before. not sure though.

I'd be sure to treat for canker first as there are many forms of canker and the cheesey white spots are not as common as they used to be but that's almost certainly what it is.