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Why don't homing pigeons eat flour and rice?
First, indigestion diarrhea due to stress factors such as hot weather and shock, it can cause the digestive function of weak meat pigeons to decline, which is manifested as diarrhea. Pigeon feces are green or grayish white, and sick pigeons lose weight quickly. Treatment: Take 1 yeast tablets, 1/2 lactase tablets and multienzyme tablets once for sick pigeons. Or add 5% ~ 10% activated carbon or charcoal powder to healthy sand and feed it to sick pigeons. You can also let sick pigeons drink 500 ~ 700 times of EM solution 1 ~ 2 days, and the feces will thicken.

2. Pigeon dysentery can be caused by poor ventilation in pigeonholes suffering from bacillary dysentery, or single feed and insufficient nutrition. If the dung partition in the cage is too small, and the dung from the upper layer leaks into the lower tank or sink, the germs in the dung of sick pigeons will be transmitted to healthy meat pigeons. Salmonella, Escherichia coli and other pathogens are pathogenic microorganisms that cause pigeon diarrhea. The feces of sick pigeons become thin and white or green. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs such as norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin or enrofloxacin should be used for treatment or oral administration. Precautionary measures: clean the pigeon house frequently, keep it clean, scrub the sink every day in hot weather, and spray the pigeon body and pigeon cage with diluted poisonous solution.

Third, the intestinal parasitic diseases of parasitic diarrhea pigeons can also cause diarrhea. For example, coccidiosis in meat pigeons is Eimeria, which parasitizes in the small intestine and large intestine of pigeons, causing watery diarrhea and intestinal bleeding in sick pigeons. The disease can be treated with dijunjing, and each pigeon is mixed with 40 mg of feed, and the effect is better with ampicillin, which is specially used to treat coccidiosis. Precautionary measures: remove feces every day.