bent keels

[Guest HighSpeedLofts]

i have several young birds with bent keels nothing to do with vitamin deficiency it was due to poor nesting materials due to me being a novice should i dispose of these birds

[blaz]

i can only say what i would do and that is dispose of them.i dont like telling any one to kill their birds .i think with something like this you should decide whats for the best. even though i can,t see how poor nest material would cause bent keels.which material did you use

[Tenny]

NO! Train with all others. if they keep coming home and appear in good health then no problem!

 

[blaz]

if you train them and like tenny said the birds keep coming then you race them.if they win i will eat my hat. as i have been their and done that. it is hard enough to win with good healthy streamlined birds.

[edwards]

what kind of nesting matrials you use

[maverick]

NO   the best bird i have ever had had a keel like a cork screw

[Guest shadow]

train them and race them let the basket decide

[Guest slugmonkey]

I have 2 registered elite champions ( A.U. ) that have bent or broken keels    

 

not a genetic trait    an injury

    train and fly them

 

 

[Peckedhen]

I was told that if you have a  youngster, two to four weeks old, with a bent keel, then a calcium tablet will often straighten it. Too late for you now but maybe worth trying if it happens in the future.

[boxer]

NO   the best bird i have ever had had a keel like a cork screw

same as me won the millenium race and everything else then got him reported in newport from france never seen again [gutted]   :(

 

[Shortcut Lofts]

I would also never kill a pigeon with a bent keel. I have had many good racers with bent keels and personally i think it makes no difference. No good though for shows.

 

Blue Petra - broke keel 2 weeks before first YB race 2008 - performances during yb season - 1st section E, 4th NIPA Open, 3rd section E, 10th NIPA Open, 5th section E, 40th NIPA Open, 24th section E, 154th NIPA Open up to 27,000 birds.

 

 

[pjc]

train them, nothing to lose!

[Guest HighSpeedLofts]

what kind of nesting matrials you use

 

i just put shavings in there nest pans  very bad mistake

 

[Guest HighSpeedLofts]

i can only say what i would do and that is dispose of them.i dont like telling any one to kill their birds .i think with something like this you should decide whats for the best. even though i can,t see how poor nest material would cause bent keels.which material did you use

well it was bas nesting materials as soon as i changed to straw problem solved and as people have stated on here there has been champions with bent keels  theres about 6 that are like this i will give them a chance as  the birds are healthy except there keels

 

 

 

[pigeonpete]

 

i just put shavings in there nest pans  very bad mistake

 

Maybe wrong, but cant see how shavinggs would give them a bent keel? i just use shavings and tobbaco stalks in mine, and in 4 years no had 1 with a bad keel?

 

why you so convinced its down to nesting material mate?

[Guest HighSpeedLofts]

 

Maybe wrong, but cant see how shavinggs would give them a bent keel? i just use shavings and tobbaco stalks in mine, and in 4 years no had 1 with a bad keel?

 

why you so convinced its down to nesting material mate?

just with shavings there too light and the young ones ended up sitting on the bottom of the hard pan and once i changed the materials problem solved

 

 

[Craig05]

Dont kill them, we had a bird that won 1st fed and 6th combine and his keel bone was almost "L" shaped

[Guest HighSpeedLofts]

will be a bit embaressing on marking night when others handle them lol wont be that when there beating them lol

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