Guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Posted February 6, 2009 a good clean loft with clean water,, plenty fresh air and bone dry,, and most certainly no anti-biotics,,,,only my opinion jimmy its not about your own loft its about what the birds are exposed to in the baskets baypermuin but cant get hold of it pro-tec is the same
ALF Posted February 6, 2009 Report Posted February 6, 2009 Tried something different myself this winter as in i have'nt used any of my feeders for feeding the doo's all i have done is go into the section and through the grub on the floor whether i have cleaned out or not and the only reason i have done it is to build up a bit of immunity as i dont just want my doo's getting all clean stuff all the time i want them to build up the immunity but during racing the grub will go back into the feeders again
Chairman Posted February 7, 2009 Report Posted February 7, 2009 I used to think the same myself and used many natural products thinking keeping near to nature I was providing the best for my birds. The idea behind the building of my birds building an an immunity to the bugs, well the only immunity they build up is against the bugs contained within their own loft enviroment. When they go to the races the birds are mixed together with many birds from different loft enviroments which contain many bugs and nasties that yours and my birds have not been exposed too.The professional flyers who are at the top every year are the guys who get to work on their birds as soon as they return.Now before you start the tapping of the keyboard to reply to my thread, what I mean is they are forward thinking fanciers, they want good results week after week because at the end of the day, its no longer a sport / hobby its a business RESULTS means SALES means MONEY and sadly that is the way they see our sport. The guys who fly a few birds each week and send the same small team through the programme upto 500 -600 miles competes in a more sedate way as the professional. No I dont for one minute suggest that we all have to reach for this bottle and that packet or even inject this on one day and 2 shots of that on fridays, the proffesional flyer manages his birds in a different manner to you and I.
aye ready Posted February 7, 2009 Author Report Posted February 7, 2009 apologies for not replying earlier but its my offsprings computer and i get a wee shot now and again,the reason for the immune booster is one of my lofts of which i have 4 managed to get an enteritis problem and have never been out since september,except for showing.anyway the problem was cleared up and with a lot of burning(blowtorch) and jeyes the birds are A1 and ready for pairing,i was told to give them a booster very good fancier,but on looking back the product i was already using on the feed(progem plus)was infact an immunity booster/probiotic ps my birds are out in aviaries all day
willo Posted March 15, 2009 Report Posted March 15, 2009 the best natural immune system booster out there is ionic colloidal silver,it will purifiy their drinking water stop all cross infection through the drinkers. and you won't go wrong with what ian gibb told you,he's 100% top class fancier. regards. willo
frank-123 Posted March 15, 2009 Report Posted March 15, 2009 i never found much improvement with the silver i game my generator away another fad i got sucked into sorry willo
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