any ideas

[chucka]

i have a busscheart xwildermeersch cock has stopped filling his eggs he is only 7 years old  i have cut is tail and vent give him blue smarties wheat gem oil left him with is hen last year and this  3 rounds of eggs no good and is last round last year thanks

[Guest Vic]

kill it!

[chucka]

this pigeon has breed winners all is life will just put him in the stock pen 2 live is life out

[ACE LOFTS]

u think a 7 year old is bad iv got a yearling whos not filling

[Guest]

7 yo seems a bit young to be past it. Also, picked up something recently that you shouldn't trim vent feathers as there is some sort of 'guide feathers' there   which obviously help!  

 

If you have a spare end or corner, leave out the 'helping hands' and just put him and his mate in there, and keep yer fingers crossed. Nothing to lose.  

[Roland]

Let it stay on it's own with plenty of freedom ... 3/4 weeks down the line he fills or don't, then it's a costly Vet job of syringe etc.

But feel other than that of changing it's mate to a prove hen... JNO

[pigeonscout]

How do you know it is the cock and not the hen

[pigeonscout]

Gently break open the egg if there is a perfect yolk then the hen is ok and the cock is not filling, if the yolk is broken and mixed with the white then it is then hen at fault.

[Guest jason]

A couple of years ago I bought a 9 year old hen, wouldn't even lay an egg when I got her, I put her and her mate in a pen on their own and since has bred 3 winners out of 8 young birds.

 

try putting him with his mate in a seperate section

 

Jason