Racing Pigeon Diseases and Treatment - Tricomoniases or tricomonas gallinae ( pigeon canker )

Racing Pigeon Diseases and Ailments .
By  +wynand wolmarans
Canker  can kill your birds ,especially the your young birds
When a pigeon become sick or the loft performance is poor we always grab for the bottle.Sometime we give the right medication , most other times we guess because we don't know which medicine to give for what disease, or for how long and when to follow up the treatment .
Firstly we find out what is wrong before we grab for the bottle , then we can commence with the treatment .

Tricomoniase
This is a one celled organism , living of the water solube vitamins ( b and c ) of your pigeon. 
It is mostly passed over from parents to their young
If the pigeon contracted the disease he  will not  have it forever , it can be cured. 
Pigeons can get cancer many times  in their life time
PEOPLE CAN BE CARRIERS OF TRICOMONADS AND YOU CAN SPREAD THIS THROUGH YOUR LOFT. SOME PIGEON FANCIERS LICK THE LITTLE BABIES FEET TO RUNG IT. THIS IS HOW THE CONTRACT THE DISEASE  AND SPREAD IT THROUGH THE LOFT..... EASY TO SEE THE FANCIER STARTS TO LOOSE HIS TEETH...

Tricomonad or Canker symptoms we can see on pigeons and loft
1) The pigeons feathers is becoming dry .
2) Pigeons became  heavy ( feel heavy in the hand ) .
3) Pigeons get lost from races . Young birds die easily .
4) After feeding the pigeons look if they suffer to swallow and push their tails to the ground and standing in a penguin posture 
5) From a race they will come one - one , a few minutes apart with a bad following up .        
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Tricomonad or Canker treatment
1) THE SAME MEDICINE FOR THE FANCIER AND THE PIGEON............Lots on the marked today mostly Metronidazole and flagyl  is the cheapest.   
2) It take 1 TO 3 days to get cured from tricomonads.. The treatment must be followed up with Antibiotics ,
because there is a raw sore now in the pigeons crop. 3) No follow up treatment needed. But if they give water on the pigeon truck your birds can pick it up and spread it through your race loft.
4) B complex supplement help. And probiotic of yogurt after the  Antibiotics
5) To make 100% sure you can test the pigeons blood under a microscope .Get your self tested
6) My own favorites is to give cayenne pepper ( capsicum ) monday and theusday in the water (1 gram per liter water) with Colliodal Silver (10% to 30%). Colloidal silver kill 652 one celled organisms ,and since I started using these 95% of all my pigeon diseases and problams have disappeared .

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