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this is what drives me around the bend - Young Bird Sickness. What is it? No body knows, thats what the problem is, you start giving them treatment, that doesnt work then you give them something else and in the end you have done them more harm than good. I have always said if i get it or should i say something that looks like it i will not be pumping stuff into them.

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Adenosan by Chevita is what I used this year, this being my first year of ever seeing yb sickness, and it worked wonders. The problem with yb sickness is it seems to open them up to other problems, especially when stressed. After every race I give then Adenosan on the corn for three days, which seems to keep it at bay. Bilco has been selling a product called Xerek which he sells for £5 per sachet and this apparently cures YBS straight away. Mine seemed to have got it from sitting on the house roof and picking about in the garden, as they would often peck about in the gutter and then be sick a few hours later. Now they are trained once a day at 30mile and have to come straight in so they dont peck about.

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Sbelbin,Do you think your birds picked it up from the moss on the roof or slabs in the garden as I stongly believe that this is one of the main  reasons that they get YBS

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Ive heard of that theory B4, and they could have as my gutters are the old cast iron type and are a bit mossy. Cant really say what it is in the garden but they seemed to peck about in the mud and then spuw up.

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Touch wood, never had the full blown YBS; if I see a yb holding corn, or one has thrown their nights meal up, all I do is, the next day put a spoonfull of bleach in the water; it just disinfects it so the problem isnt passed round. Then its up to the yb itself to sort it out, I think its better if they overcome it themselves, but by the next night doing that they are usually back on, if not they get removed from the team.

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THE FAMOUS YOUNG BIRD SICKNESS !!!

 

FIRST AND FOREMOST FELLOW PIGEON FANCIERS DON'T START PANICKING AND TREAT THEM WITH EVERY MEDICINE UNDER THE SUN, BEEN THERE, DONE IT, GOT QUITE A FEW T-SHIRTS.

 

FIRSTLY MR JIMMY WHITE YOU ARE 100% CORRECT IN SAYING STRESS IS THE ROOT CAUSE. I'M NOW TALKING FROM EXPERIENCE HERE.

SENT MY FULL "A" TEAM OF YOUNG BIRDS TO THE FIRST RACE. SENT 23 AND GOT 22 HOME, CAN'T GRUMBLE 1st & 4th CLUB,KEPT THEM IN ON THE SUNDAY AS ALWAYS AND ON THE MONDAY MORNING BEFORE GOING TO WORK WENT IN THE LOFT AND NOTICED SOME FEEDING ON THE EASILY CLEAN PERCHES, I THEN HANDLED A FEW BIRDS AND NOTICED THEY WERE RETAINING THERE FEEDING, THE DREADED YB SICKNESS HAD ARRIVED.

 

THE FIRST THING I DID WAS? NOW THERE WILL BE A FEW GASPS !!!! OPENED THE SLIDING DOOR TO MY "B" TEAM OF YOUNG BIRDS SO THEY CAN BOTH MIX, EAT , AND DRINK THE SAME WATER. THE REASON I DO THIS IS BECAUSE ONCE THEY GET THE YBS AND OVERCOME IT I FEEL THEY NEVER GET IT AGAIN.

 

THE TREATMENTS USED WERE A PRODUCT CALLED "PROTRIL" FROM PIGEON HEALTH, UK ANIMAL PRODUCTS IT IS A POWDER TO BE USED IN WATER FOR SEVERE WET DROPPINGS.

 

IN CONJUNCTION WITH "PROTRIL" I USE NATURAL PRO-BIOTIC YOGHURT ON TOP OF 100% DEPURATIVE, MIX IT IN WITH THE DEPURATIVE AND GIVE IT TIME TO DRY (3 -4 HOURS)

 

IF POSSIBLE FEED THEM 3 - 4 TIMES PER DAY IN SMALL AMOUNTS.THIS MAKES THEM DRINK THE WATER AS WELL.

 

KEEP YOUR BIRDS IN ! NO EXERCISE, AND TAKE AWAY ALL GRITS AND MINERALS AS I FEEL THIS HINDERS THE TREATMENTS.

 

AFTER 2 DAYS I NOTICED MY "B" TEAM SHOWING THE SAME SYMPTOMS AND AFTER 6 DAYS IT HAD CLEARED. I STARTED GIVING THE CRUMBLE BLOCKS AFTER 6 DAYS AS I FEEL IT DRYS THEM UP AND ON THE 7TH DAY I LET THEM OUT FOR A FLY (45MINS) AND THEY WERE FLYING FOR THAT TIME.

 

I GRADUALLY STARTED MIXING YB MIXTURE IN WITH THE DEPURATIVE OVER 3 DAYS AND TRAINING STARTED ON THE 10TH DAY.

 

SO IN ALL 10 DAYS, YBS CAME AND WENT, THE BIRDS ARE LOOKING GREAT, I KNOW I MISSED A YOUNG BIRD RACE BUT WHY PUT OTHER FANCIERS PIGEONS AT RISK AS WELL???

 

SENT 22 TO THE THIRD YB RACE(80 MILES) 19 BIRDS HOME WITHIN 15 MINS ??? 20/22 RETURNS??

 

THE ONLY THING I PUT IT DOWN TO WAS STRESS FROM THE FIRST TIME IN THE TRANSPORTER, AND MIXING WITH OTHER BIRDS.

 

THIS IS MY FINDINGS AND HAS WORKED FOR ME IF IT HELPS 1 FANCIER THE IT HAS BEEN WORTH WRITING IT.

 

CHEERS LADS

 

CHEERS TO THUNDER HE KNOWS WHY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Go to our webpage www.redroselofts.co, and click on what we use.  You will see a Product called Chisholm Train Health Products, best thing since sliced bread, never had young bird sickness. John Exports to the United Kingdom and I know of several fanciers using this already over the pond.

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If they are really hunching up spewing green slime and dying  like adenovirus nothing "cures" a virus but having had them drop from perches and die within 5 hours spoke to an avian specialist Vet in the states and he recommended 5 days of baytril and a heavy duty probiotic and vitamins. The baytril prevented andy secondary bacterial infection and the probiotic replaced the bad bacteria with good anf the multi vits give the system a shot 5 days and the birds went from close to death to flying half an hour. Dont like medicating but it worked . Darn hard to watch your YBs hunch and die within 5 hours also santised drinkers and scrubbed loft with solution of bleach

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i had yb sickness a few years ago and its heart breaking watching your ybs drop off the perches dead and the ones that do get through it so miserable.i decided 4 years ago that it was down to stress and mixing with sick birds in the  race crates so i stopped racing my ybs ,i just trained them to 120 miles and they flew well as yearlings.the past couple of years iv'e not started racing the ybs until the 4th race, in my mind all the sick birds have been lost by then ,so far no yb sickness since i started to do this.

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many years ago I read an artical from a belgium fancier about various ail ments fron respiritory to Y/Bs and he advised treating all his birds with cider vinegar in the water for two weeks after the moult and then again in june and his birds ailed nothing. I have done the same and never had YBS in fact I take the treatment one stage further and they all get cyder vinegar on their feed every tuesday. Good luck with your birds. ;)

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Just heard that the FDA in America have banned the use of Baytril in Poultry, not a lot of fanciers use this productd

don't know yet if it will be completely taken off the marketct

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