UkPigeonRacing

Devo1956 wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:01 am This is a subject that some members feel, they don't medicate their birds. But the question is, if members do have a problem with their birds. What medication would they use?

I've not medicated my birds for years. But I would if I thought they needed it. As to what medication to use?, I'd do my research and not just buy some branded one with a pigeon on the label.

To race pigeons in the UK now u have to be half fancier half vet ,,the illness picked up racing now are just a joke ,,u get fanciers now send baby's with yb sickness they pick out the ones that look ok then the same type send birds with fat eye again sending birds that look ok but know they have problems but they send because of averages its just a joke the time when fanciers prided there self on being stockman as long gone n now unless ya half a vet with fast eyes that sees everything you are just done ,,I'm not on about sending n getting birds home I'm on about sending to win ,,
I hear this all two often I got them all home ,there's zero prices on full returns ,,I hear this all to often I never treat for anything but they never win anything either ,,
Medication can safe ya birds but abused can ruin them as well but a treatment once or twice a year for things won't hurt them One bit.

If the birds in your Loft have a good natural immune system, and not compromised with medication (antibiotics), then I don't see what you would be worried about.

It’s all about observation and if needed, testing and treatment if a problem is identified, when I first started it was dosing with Epsom salts, potassium permanganate in the bath water and a white sesqui tablet for anything that didn’t look right followed by disposal if there was no improvement in 48 to 72 hrs

Bowbroom wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 4:49 pm It’s all about observation and if needed, testing and treatment if a problem is identified, when I first started it was dosing with Epsom salts, potassium permanganate in the bath water and a white sesqui tablet for anything that didn’t look right followed by disposal if there was no improvement in 48 to 72 hrs

I still like epsom salts with table salt n brown sugar ,,first thing I do if things ain't right ,,I use a laboratory for pigeon testing called phs ,
But if team are right n one bird ain't then it's massive question mark on that bird ,,stock birds should not need help ,,but now days racing 60 percent of convoy are either not 100 percent healthy or prepared for racing and bred of paper pedigree birds of Internet that are the in fashion name at that precise time.