We were able to put the birds outside today. We will work on having them loft-flying for an hour as quickly as possible.
We had winds over 30 mph yesterday. We should be able to loft-fly today (Sunday).
The birds are finished with their treatment. The 7 birds with the weak legs are walking perfectly. I made them go outside and make a few loops around the loft. We have the cocks and hens seperated. We plan to begin loft flying again tomorow (Saturday).
The birds are looking fantastic. We had no more new cases and the ones with the symptoms appear strong now. We will finish their treatment in a few days and hope to have them back in the sky soon.
We had to pause our Yearling Race due to some birds having weak legs. We isolated 7 birds. Weak legs have been the only symptoms. The birds all look good, and eat and drink, even the weak leg birds.
We believe a bird or two returned, after being out for a while, and brought it back from the city pigeons.
Under the guidance of Ed Mineville, at Siegel's, we have vaccinated for the Rota Virus and are currently treating the birds with Ecol-Tonic and Dokamox.
Hopefully, in another week, we will resume loft flying and tosses with no further problems.
WE ARE TAKING A BREAK. We won't be accepting birds for our 2023-2024 yearling race. Of course we will be flying our current race season. I will contact each breeder that has birds in our current race by phone.
The weather continues to be poor pigeon flying weather. the last few days have been heavy clouds and rain. Today we have very strong winds.
Our weather continues to be too poor to toss birds. We are able to flag them on some of the days.
We are hoping to toss the birds tomorrow.
We had rain all day untill late afternoon. We plan to toss tomorrow.
The weather was too unfavorable this morning to toss the birds. Heavy clouds and strong winds. We were able to flag the birds later in the day.
The weather in December, January and February has been especially poor pigeon flying weather. Hopefully this will change soon.