Pigeon health?

[Duckdog]

Last week, I was supposed to meet up with a new pigeon source, but she called and cancelled saying her loft had came down with a virus. "Tmv"...I think.
Apparently, they overnighted a vaccine and treated all of them and didn't lose a single bird.
So, I get a call today saying they think they're ready.
Should I be concerned?

I haven't medicated my birds for anything.
Should I be? And, if so...what?

[Wildweeds]

The saying if it ain't broke,don't fix it pops into mind. I myself would pass on those birds and step up the game in your own loft as far as breeding to increase your allready healty flock. I'd try that before I bought or aquired for free birds that came from a source with health issues.

[ezzy333]

If they have been vaccinated and are OK they should be fine. Most flyers vaccinate for it and the one loft races require it. As far as your birds I wouldn't do anything unless you have a problem. I have never vaccinated or medicated my birds other than worming and I did give an antibiotic once when we were having all of the rain and the young birds develop rather watery stools. Three days and they were fine.

Ezzy

[Duckdog]

Thanks...
What do you mean by "step up my game"?
I only had one mated pair but the male is AWOL after his last flight.
I'm not sure how I could make the rest pair up.

Ezzy, is worming something I should be doing as a routine maintence?
I assume ivermectin?
How much?
How do you administer?
How often?

Thanks

[V-John]

PMV is nasty business. Ill be treating ours once we are done road training and start racing. There was a reportes case of PMV here in Ks and that scare me.
I know of a guy that was selling pigeons cheap.... Where in Ks you at? Shoot me a PM.

[Duckdog]

Pm sent John.

[CDN_Cocker]

You have nothing to worry about if she vaccinated them

[Duckdog]

Thanks for the feedback!
I left it in their hands,...if they felt comfortable with it, I'd buy them.
They decided 4 more birds (rollers at that) wasn't worth the risk of infecting my loft.
They couldn't be sure, and that was the bottom line. You gotta respect them for that!

He (husband and wife team, but I'd mostly been talking with his wife if I wrote "her"or "she" in earlier posts) did bring me a couple of young unflown homers that were in his breeding loft. They hadn't been exposed to the sick birds, but they vaccinated them anyway.


I think I've talked them into letting some of their eggs hatch for me too!
So, I should get a couple more in a couple weeks, then a couple more in a couple weeks...etc.
I guess I'll just have to be patient until they start their own baby factory.