Pigeonvetcenter
Our animal health center Beek medically supervises pigeon racing. For many years the moving spirit of this supervision is veterinarian P.G.L.J. Boskamp.He developes medicines and animal food supplements to raise the defence mechanism of pigeons in order to decrease addiction to medicines. We sell a large scale of animal food supplements and products to support a quick recovery of the birds after a race. For example Bony SGR, which is one of the most used food supplements in pigeon racing. This product supports the natural defence mechanism and improves the functioning of the intestines. It improves the overall condition and metabolism of the pigeons and will lead to excellent racing conditions.
The pigeonvetcenter is to be visited for:
- Medical requirements and complete guidance of racing pigeons
- Parasitology (Worms, Coccidiosis etc.)
- Bacteriology (Salmonella, E-Coli etc.)
- Viral research (Paramyxo, Adeno etc.)
- Crop analysis
- Vaccinations (Paramyxo, Paratyphus, Pox etc.)
- Fungal analysis
- Blood analysis
- Fertility treatments
- Operations
- Post-mortum diagnostics
- Observation of the birds
- Faeces-examination; it's possible to send droppings for analysis via the post
- X-ray-diagnostics
Newsletter May 2012
The Herpes virus (part 2)
The herpes virus in practice.
In the last newsletter, i described the scientific facts of the Herpes virus. But what is the impact of this virus in everyday life?
As i explained earlier, a lot of pigeons are latently infected, without any signs of symptoms. We have seen that most of the young pigeons between the age of two and ten weeks old, are infected by this virus. Some are extremely ill, that death follows. In these cases, the symptoms concentrate mostly in the upper-respiratory airways and, frequently, the pigeons have Coryza symptoms.
But before the birds reach this level of sickness, the resistance of the pigeons has to be low. During weaning, this happens. But even through overcrowding in the cots and during transport in less fortunate circumstances, like high temperatures and humidity.
If there is an outbreak, there is not much you can do to defeat the virus. For virus infections in general, antibiotics are not available and non-effective. Still, there are a lot of pigeon lovers who request antibiotics for a virus infection
