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Had a bird returned yesterday after a 7 hour fly with his wattle was almost bleeding.
I know yesterday was a difficult day but he is supposed to be a distance bird so it made me think - have I got an underlying respiratory problem.
Any thoughts ladies and gents.......

He's flown through some heavy rain. it's a good, honest pigeon. He's kept going when some of them have found a place to shelter.

It does sound like he has come through some tuff weather, no harm in treating him. The color of the wattle gives a fair indication of the birds health, hope he recovers well from a hard race Dave.

Devo1956 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 10:42 am It does sound like he has come through some tuff weather, no harm in treating him. The color of the wattle gives a fair indication of the birds health, hope he recovers well from a hard race Dave.

I wouldn't totally agree with that.
If the pigeon is not sick, in my opinion he doesn't need medications. I couple of days rest and he will be good as gold.

Murray wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 10:53 am

Devo1956 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 10:42 am It does sound like he has come through some tuff weather, no harm in treating him. The color of the wattle gives a fair indication of the birds health, hope he recovers well from a hard race Dave.

I wouldn't totally agree with that.
If the pigeon is not sick, in my opinion he doesn't need medications. I couple of days rest and he will be good as gold.

Yes Murray i understand your point, i have always worked on prevention myself.

We had thunder/lightning/hail and some ferocious storms yesterday

If he collared one of them its understandable

Diamond Dave wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 10:04 am Had a bird returned yesterday after a 7 hour fly with his wattle was almost bleeding.
I know yesterday was a difficult day but he is supposed to be a distance bird so it made me think - have I got an underlying respiratory problem.
Any thoughts ladies and gents.......

If it was chalky white before the race and my bet it was then I would say rain but it would have to be heavy
No signs of it been fighting in a basket ? although a long shot it’s still possible

If the birds have had a long fly in heavy rain I would go for a blind treatment they can have head issues not really visible that you only find out when trained or raced next time .
Fanciers used to bend the birds head back towards the body and hold it for 10 secs or so believe ti check for respo it’s many years since I have seen anyone do that but the birds would sneeze or have crap in there throat as a guide
Someone may remember better than me as I was only a kid when o was shown it and never done it myself but it’s a quick check

Nothing wrong with the bird it's just as others have said due to heavy rain. No treatment needed will be fine in a couple of days. This was common with birds in the 80s when we raced EVERY week rain or shine.

What I would do though is advocate a respiratory/ornithosis based treatment to birds that had hit rain

A bit of rain didn't bother this lad.