good afternoon everybody so here's a bit of an update on where we are at the moment so we've had
a bit of illness i think in the loft um i've got two birds isolated one in this crate and another
one in that crate because i don't have a spare loft at the moment so this is one of the youngest
ones and this one i think vomited in the loft uh and there was corn on its v perch when i opened up
for darkness one morning and uh yeah so i i've kept it isolated they're all on medication now on
uh antibiotics because obviously we can't put my antiviral so just trying to
keep on top of anything else that comes a bit of a runny drop in there this is all new uh
newspaper that i put in last night so i wanted to see whether the medication had helped and
no green droppings but this one is knocked over is water so i need to clean that out but there's some
you can just about make out a little bit of green but not as bad as it was before
yeah you need to change you out this one's the one that's been looking
not great there's droppings on the crate now because i've been feeding them inside the crate
to try and get them used to it but this one's the one that's been looking a little bit docile
um probably for about a week um so it has been isolated already but
i thought it was losing a bit of weight it doesn't seem to be deteriorating any but
it's certainly not looking great like some of the others um so all of these in the loft have
also been on medications so they're all on it at the moment i've removed um a couple of people
have suggested that i get rid of the deep litter um so i'm gonna give that a try i'm not sure how
long i'll keep it up but we'll give it a uh we've given it a whirl so we've got one two
three four five bags um cleared out um advantages of it are you can see the droppings more clearly
um and so i've been scraped up here about two hours ago and i've worked honest or put work
on s on all the perches disinfected it with uh antiviral um disinfectant
but you can see what happened basically was i found the corn and then i opened up off
darkness and i could see them all pecking in that corner just over there and so um once i i i saw
that i covered it over and tried to isolate the birds that looked a little bit sick but
i just couldn't keep three or four of them in here and then cram the rest in there so i took
the two one that i thought was um that had vomited the corn that's the first one we've just seen
excuse me and then the second one the one that's been looking looking a bit lethargic
which i think is producing the green droppings that's in the other crate so we did that and
then um put them on antibiotics and stopped them feeding i took the feed off them because in case
they were holding corn i left them like that for 24 hours came back in and they didn't look like
any of them were holding corn so but there were green droppings everywhere so i spoke to charlie
and he said well that happens if you take the food off them then you will notice that the droppings
turn more green so um i've given them a half feed yesterday and another half feet again today
and the only issue that we've got now no real green droppings anywhere the issue we've got
now is more watery so there's a couple of water droppings now that could be because it was 32
degrees in here yesterday uh sorry not in the lot but it was 32 degrees you know um
in in our part of the country um we're quite lucky because we we're under some trees so the
loft is relatively um shady so it doesn't get too too hot there's loads of ventilation and
um you know a lot of the birds are looking pretty good we've still got some that are
in the malt um but i've now taken them off darkness because i've started reducing the
darkness by one hour a day um but i i thought the extra stress of darkness plus um there's that's
white tip looking pretty good compared to the uh the fact that she's had two lots of hawk attacks
um but yeah so we're um we've got this this is the one of the watery droppings most of them are
looking like this again now which i think is quite good um but there are a couple of water droppings
and um it might be that one over there but it's it's hard to know because they've all been out
for a fly i let them out earlier on just because they would i opened the door and and they looked
like they were going to eat me um they were all at my feet and so i gave them a bit of a bit of feed
and then a bit later when i let them out and they went for a fly for about 10-15 minutes i called
them straight back in they all came flying in and all of them ate so none of them were sitting out
none of them were sat on the perches and basically what i'm doing is you know i have whatever
issues you have and this is what anybody that's starting out in pigeon racing is going to find is
you just have to talk to people but you'll get different opinions from everybody so
um and everybody's got talks to you probably about 20 30 40 50 years experience so
you just kind of have to listen to everyone and then decide which things you want to do um
and so i've kind of that's just how i'm rolling with it really um i'll i'll do whatever works
what's convenient and what's um what i think might help the birds best so um we haven't
lost any none of them are dead yet from this uh illness it could just be the heat wave it could
be the heat wave and darkness and you know all of that combined so um i'm hope i'm hoping that
what i've done now is enough they've got another couple of days on on on the medication and low is
they're undeperative so it's not too rich of food for them so i'll keep them on that for a few more
days and then we'll start seeing about training because i really want to get them training
they're just they don't know what time of day it is because they've gone from having
a little bit of daylight to all this daylight but we've got some [ __ ] birds look at him look
doing a lot of uh showing off uh so yeah i'm i'm really quite looking forward to getting
them training but it's uh i want them to be right i don't want to send them out training
while they're not they're not fit so um yeah if anyone knows what the watery dropping is
about i have actually got a book so i might have a look and see what that says just a bit of water
and then there's a bit in that corner over there um you know they've been on half feed for the
last couple of days and then uh today they've had a bit more so i'm not 100 sure but yeah so
there we are they're not using this side at all are they um so i've got plenty of ventilation
from the front there uh at the back and um all at the sides we've got vents that go around the side
and it kind of looks over so it keeps it dark when i put the darkness on but you can just see
in that top top one there so there's plenty of ventilation in here and now i've got rid of that
uh deep litter for now then that should should help improve it as well so yeah they're all not
a dead the droppings are looking better but they have been green and they're now but they're now a
bit watery um they're on medication under purity that's pretty much all i can do at the moment
i could get that sent off but i haven't had any fatalities yet i half think it's the the weather
and darkness combined i think uh the the the heat and the the stress i think that's and also having
young birds um that are in the malt you know it's uh i suspect it's that but hopefully that that's
the case anyway so there we go um hopefully the next video will be my first training toss
that's what i'm hoping for so i'll catch you later don't forget if you haven't done already
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