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Pigeon Health & Medicine
Health or its absence is the key to all results, good or bad! Regardless of the quality of your pigeons, if you are unable to keep them healthy they are doomed to perennially poor results. It is safe to say that the person who has pigeons of lesser quality but has learned to keep them close to the top of their health cycle will outperform a group of superior pigeons whose critical health is little understood and has, unfortunately, been allowed to lapse.
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Drugs, Their Use and Effectiveness
This very complete listing of medications and their applications is an invaluable resource for keeping healthy pigeons. Using the proper medications, in the right dosages, is critical to effective treatment of our birds, and this resource is very thorough - you'll want to print out a copy of this one, for sure! The original document came from the following website, with our thanks for publishing it: http://www.pigeoncote.com/vet/formulary/formulary.html . . . keep reading
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Taking My Pigeons to the Doctor!
Vincent Schroeder
Sit in on a visit to the vet in Holland! See just what a vet does in a short, eval visit to find out the general health of random pigeons from a loft. . . . keep reading
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Young Bird Sickness
This "disease" which has become the scourge of Young Bird Derbies throughout the world is thought by many to have as its cause the infection by Adenovirus which then "opens the door" to infection by bacteria, most notably Escherichia coli. It is then thought that E. coli causes the symptoms such as initially a lack of appetite and later to vomiting and in general "shutting down the gut". . . . keep reading
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The Probiotic "Health Dividend"
John Vance
The digestive tract of a racing pigeon, is home to a number of microorganisms, including various types of protozoa, bacteria, and fungi (includes yeast). The normal relationship between these microorganisms and the host (racing pigeon) is symbiotic, meaning "the living together of dissimilar organisms". . . . keep reading
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Powdered Probiotics?
K.H. Frank
As one looks at a pigeon one's eyes focus on just this individual and yet this physical being is home to billions of other creatures sharing the gastrointestinal system and the skin generally in a symbiotic relationship. The bird's body provides food as well as a warm and moist environment to various bacteria and it in turn receives vitamins manufactured by them. . . . keep reading
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Antibiotics ( anti bios = against life )
Do you administer antibiotics to prevent disease? The news is that such is impossible. How could the administration of an antibiotic now against "bug X" prevent one from becoming infected with "bug X" a few weeks or months hence? . . . keep reading
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A Preventive Medication Program That Works
Silvio Mattacchione
An antibiotic is by most considered a drug, but a drug is not necessarily an antibiotic! An antibiotic works by suppressing the immune system, a drug per se does not affect the immune system at all. So you see there is a real difference. . . . keep reading
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