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Racing pigeons colonise!

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I was watching a program about tropical fish one day and in the water were two groups of fish. These fish were the same colour but with different pattern ie a striped shoal and a spotted shoal .What I found interesting about all of this was when the Diver took a striped fish and introduced it to the spotted shoal at about a meter apart so what happened? the little fella went straight back to his stripy buddies .Now what would happen if you were to rear a small team of racing pigeons the same colour you might ask why!! my racing  pigeons do alright for me and they are mixed ,or maybe you have already tried this method with no results if this was so how would your returns have been. We let our racing  pigeons out to fly on a daily basis and what do they do they fly around and around for at least two hours repeating the same circular flying pattern day in and day out looking at the same colour of buddies flying below them now if these birds are reared only knowing what they are shown surely this should increase our chances of a bird wanting back to his own kind .Imagine the birds being released from the transporter and what is the first thing they see?  That`s  right lots of different coloured buddies is this going to increase your chances of getting a better percentage of returns? What about even when you train your one coloured team  and they accidentally have a smash with another team, could this help to increase your chances of getting better returns than the other guys & gals? Combining this method with your own favourite motivation tactic could have that extra bit of edge on the rest of the fancy or could it?

Method or Madness.

DIFTERO SMALLPOX

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DIFTERO SMALLPOX
CAUSAL AGENT: Borrelia columbae (virus)
INFECT: By the water of drink, food, fecal material, dust, pricked of mosquito, wounds, etc. Youngsters are most susceptible. The adults rare time become sick.
SYMPTOMS: Typical crust formation white yellowish, difficult to give off (blood ones), in eyes, nose, peak, toggle of the legs, mouth, throat, around the sewer.
TREATMENT: To separate the excrescences and to apply dye topics of iodine. Give antibiotic and vitamins (mainly vitamin A) during 4-5 days.
PROPHYLAXIS: Cleaning and disinfection (iodine povidona)
IMMUNITY: The cured pigeon acquires immunity for a lifetime.

NEW CASTLE Or PARAMIXOVIRUS

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NEW CASTLE Or PARAMIXOVIRUS
CAUSAL AGENT: Bird Paramixovirus type 1
SYMPTOMS: 1 – Digestive upheavals:
Virus – vicerotropo
- Liquid Excrements —-> (as water)
- Intense thirst (it can increase to 4-5 times the consumption)
2 – Nervous upheavals:
- vírus neurotropo
- Slight tremors of head.
- Difficulty to peck grains (it affects the optical nerve).
- Problems of balance: it falls for a side or back towards (pirouettes)
- Torticolis: of 0º – 180 º
- Problems in sight with discolouration of an eye.
- Paralysis of a wing or the two.
- Paralysis of a leg or the two.
3 – Breath upheavals (Vírus neumotropo)
- Conjuntivitis, coriza, death rattle. (They are not frequent)
DIAGNOSE: Laboratory, by examination of the blood.
TREATMENT: To eliminate sick pigeons of small value.
To isolate the pigeons that we want to treat. Reduce to normality the water consumption (50 cs per day).
To fulfill the food trays or to give them to eat with a sleeve or syringe.
To administer together:
- Antibiotics (Tetraciclinas, enrofloxacina, etc.)
- Amino acids
- Vitamins
- Levamisol (to stimulate the defenses).
PROPHYLAXIS: Cleaning and disinfecting of the loft.
VACCINATION: a) Dead virus: or inactivated in watery solution.
Intramuscular or subcutaneous.
Immunity: a year COLOMBOVAC (Holland)
b) Alive virus: Cepa B1 or La Sota.
In the water of drink and by nasal or ocular drop.
Immunity: 2 months. On the 4th day of applied the vaccine to the alive virus it is advisable to make the following recipe:
- Levamisol: 1-2 days
- Vitamins, Antibiotics and Amino acids: during 4-5 days.
IMPORTANT: It is an obligation of the Fancier to denounce or to communicate to his society a bud of this disease in his loft, so that all the other people can take their own precautions.

Administration of medicines

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Administration of medicines
Injectable form: Subcutaneous (underneath the skin of the neck)
Oral form: 1. – By capsules or tablets (individual treatment)
2. – In the drink water: administer the right amount of water that is consumed per day according to the time of the year (winter or summer). The vitamins in the water from a day to another, will be inactivated.
3. – In the food: it is not recommended.
4. – Topics: with a small stick and cotton (Muguet case, trichomoniasis, smallpox, etc)
Doses: Insufficient dose:
It doesn’t produce the wished treatment and causes resistance or to be dependent.
Overdose:
It can cause very detrimental effects (case sulfas)
Measures:
1 coffee spoon = 1.5 – 2 grs.
1 teaspoon = 3,5 – 4 grs.
1 soupspoon = 8 – 10 grs.
1 soup spoonful = 15 grs.
20 drops = 1 millilitre = 1 cc
Important: Whenever antibiotics are administered (tetraciclinas, tilosina, eritromicina, etc), it is necessary to provide vitamins, electrolytes, amino acids and reconstituyentes of the intestinal flora. (Ex.: acid filofago, yoghurt)In the case of administering TETRACICLINAS (terramicina MR), suppress the GRIT during those days as the calcium salts precipitate the antibiotic and they inactivate it. Do not use interactive products simultaneously: they can produce interference, cooperation, antagonism or it can change the effect desired.
Prophylaxis or prevention Disinfection of the loft and all the facilities: at the present time IODINE POVIDONA is the antiseptic par excellence. It has bacterial, viricida and fungicida action. Apply it with spray whenever we clean the loft ( minimum once a week).
Dilution: 20 cc in 1 litre of water.