Show ato 0 PIGEONS ARE SUBJECT TO MANY DISEASES h ik if ta N i R 7 E t A pigeon house and fly note bath pan against house prepared by the united states department of agriculture th the pens and yards where pigeons aro are confined must be kept clean there Is very little chance of 0 making money from squabs squats unless the pigeons can be kept comparatively free from diseases and insect parasites if healthy breeding stock Is secured tile the houses atia and yards kept clean and careful attention given to the birds dis eases and parasites should not be a material factor in squab raising only good sound round grain should be fed the following advice as to keeping pigeons well and curing their diseased Is taken from farmers bulletin no 1 squab raising the stock sho should uld be carefully watched and any alck birds removed from the breeding pens the house should be kept dry clean well ventilated and free from d drafta ra its the yards should be ba kept clean either by scraping the surface and adding fresh sand or grayel or by aryel cultivating the land and p planting it to grain if possible the nests nest boxes and pens should be kept clean but it Is not ad to disturb the heats bests tain eggson eggs or squabs any more than la Is actually necessary the pens liens should be sprayed frequently with whitewash containing B n little crude car carbolic bolle acid or with a coal tar disinfectant and the nest boxes and itna perches should be ex for mites especially in hot weather and sprayed with kerosene oil or some commercial preparation which will kill mites the nests or nest pans should bo be cleaned out and the nesting material removed after the squats squabs are marketed or leave the nests canker are subject to many of the diseases which affect poultry and may be treated in the same manner canker and the ahe disease or condition called 01 Z 1 Is 1 5 white runt hunt female going alg light it seem to bo be more prevalent in pigeons eona than in the domestic fowl canker appears as sores or cheesy patches in tho the mouth and throat threat and can usually bo be prevented by providing good sanitary conditions and feeding only elban clean sound grains and clean water it may be treated by the mouth and throat with undiluted or with a solution rotation of equal parts of hydrogen peroxide oxide and water or by using dry sulphur enough potassium permanganate may bo b added to the drinking water to gly give it a wine color various re remedies or preventives of disease tire are used in the drinking water by pigeon breeders bleeders bre eders whenever tho the stock appears to be tit in poor condition among them choie a e car carbolic bolle acid bcd epsom balts copper sulphate and venetian red ulcers sometimes appear on tho the head around the bill eyes mouth or in the thront throat and pigeons thus thua affected should usually be killed going light js as more or less pe cullar to pigeons and is difficult to cure it may bo be brought about by feeding filthy or unsound grains by filthy conditions and by any factor which tends to destroy the Nit vitality allty of the pigeons the symptoms of this condition are a gradual loss of flesh frequently accompanied by diarrhea the practical method of treatment Is to remove the cause pigeons in this or in any other diseased condition will often got get well it if allowed their freedom tonics are used by some soma pigeon I 1 breeders bleeders bre eders especially during the molting bolting season but their constant use Is not generally advised under normal conditions 10 dead squabs squats may be due to a variety of reasons the cause of the mortality must be found and removed if profitable results aro are to be secured some of the possible causes are arc eitra extra ma males I 1 es ar unmated pigeons in the breeding pens rats or mice in the house and lack of vitality in the b reeding breeding stock caused by tho the uso use of imp improper roper or tho the lack of sufficient teed feed filthy conditions or careless inbreeding A 8 g N aa N Z k V t water vessels find and batt bath pan |