Frank / 15 Oct 2010 18:27

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Canker? There are a couple of different strains of it - various genetic
ones, including both the dry and wet forms. I've yet to see any pigeon
breed that isn't susceptible to at least one form of canker, though I have
seen families of birds that were less likely to affected by a particular
strain or strains. I have zero doubt that this is a genetic affect. I
used to raise Thuringer Croppers. Since they're rare in the states I
babied them, because they were often ill with canker or something else.
Finally one day I HAD it. I went out to the loft, boxed up and culled
everything that had ever been sick and got rid of them. I had 5 birds left
when I finished out of about 30. A year and a half later, I was back up to
about 30 birds and all of them were healthy, never had canker problems, etc.
I've seen the same thing over the years with many other families and lofts.
I also find that a lot of people over medicate with under dosages and wind
up creating strains of canker that become resistant to what we have to deal
with them. I really get furious with the ones who say, oh yeah, I hit my
birds one day a week with a canker treatment. That's like you telling the
doc, I give my kids Amoxicillan every Thurs, just in case they bump into
something at school.

Also, sometimes canker is a secondary infection after a bird has problems
with adenovirus, etc.

Frank


Submitted by Frank on 10/15/2010 6:01:27 PM