We wake up early in the morning after a long frosty winter night ,we prepare our coffe and make our way towards our lofts while taking a sip. Each time we find ourselves on this path we ask ourselves a question "How are the birds doing?".We open the door and look to our pigeons, an experienced fancier will be able to tell about the health of his/her birds by simply looking at their droppings .Without to much help from our vet specilalist we can easily see for ourselves the overall health of our birds .Droppings are the first sign of a presence of a disease in our lofts.The color of our pigeons droppings is not an indicator of our birds health but rather their consistancy. We can easily observe that once we serve our birds a higher percentage of black sunflower seeds in their diet ,their droppings will turn to black color while we serve our birds a higher percentage of thick bean and red minerals in their diet we can see that their droppings will turn to brown-red
So as i have mentioned earlier the color
does not denote the overall health of our pigeons but raher their consistancy and these droppings must be strong almost free of water in the shape of a snail shell with a little feather on top of it. Checking our birds every day is a "Must" on this sport and i always recommend to all fanciers to learn and understand this important aspect of this sport before anything else. We must train our eyes in seeing with ease these indicators of our birds health . Where our lofts are clean and well looked after this check will be an easy task, while where the lofts are left uncleaned and full of droppings the check will be hard to be performed and inexact. Any modification in our birds droppings must be monitored closely. A simple reduction to a minimum of the air ventilation at the floor level it seems to do wonders especially when it is implemented during the night time .
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