Great video's frank. Regarding the yellow drops, we use kusuri acriflavine 1% here in the UK as we can no longer get the yellow drops. Its originally for pond fish. Its not expensive either. Regards david
A very good pro-biotic is Yakult .They sell it here in small plastic bottles and i use 1 bottle on 1 kg food .And i use 2 days a week Sedochol, it cleans the blood .But like you said ,Comed has very good products .
It was truly amazing and thumbs up for me, that is what I am looking for. A simple system that is all natural that really works, and practical and it’s economically sustainable. Thanks again Frank I enjoyed watching all the educational videos.
I can certainly do an off season video but I do not do anything special. Just the good feed and minerals through the molt and then cheap feed and minerals in the winter and non molting times.
The reason I am asking is that I always wanted to fly my birds on a natural system without antibiotics or medicines as I do not feel the need to have medication in the water everyday.
He is a great bird. A bit shy but loves me. Endless vocabulary but I would not recommend getting one. They need endless attention and will get into everything. Like having a two year old child forever.
Not sure if you saw my message earlier. Here goes again. You’ve shown us your hen loft but could you give us a loft tour of your other lofts and show how the ventilation works. 1:12
Great!! Yet again Frank you show products not usually popular here in our country...and that's super!!! The only problem is how to purchase those products... hahahaha
Very nice and interesting video - we use totaly different product - but the concept is very similar to yours - currently since 2017 without any antibiotics as well.
Keep it up and there are many products that can be used like these. Your pigeons will keep getting stronger and stronger. They health and quality of my pigeons now ten years antibiotic free is incredible.
You really have a knack for simplifying pigeons Frank. Thanks for the great videos! Just discovered your channel. Where are you from in New England? I’m out of Westbrook, Maine.
Hi Frank, thanks for the advice, just to confirm, the products you listed to give on Saturday when birds return from a race, are they all added together in the water?
Hi Jon, I really do not measure it and add until the grain will not hold any more of the products. Some will not stick to the feed and falls off. Best to add until the grain is covered completely. There is always some wasted.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thank you for they reply! , I bet you get 1000 of question , could you answer one more. You refer to the 80% barley mix , looking at your video on feeding , you showed your barley mix. It appears to have canola-saff-wheat -red sorghum some say milo -with then a large % of Barley. Can you confirm please.We dont have the mixer you can get in the USA , so I have to make my own. . appreciate help if you can, rod
i probably said this on some other videos, but was re watching this one and wanted to comment (i hear it helps the You Tube standings also) when you can get a product that is certified for humans (at least here in the USA) buy that instead of one "for animals" because they tend to be held to a higher standard. never, EVER trust honey that isnt from a named apiary or a trusted beekeeper. its not hard to find one with the name of a local beekeeper on it, but big name "honey" often is adulterated. i buy from "the Bee Folks" based in Maryland, but honestly any good health food store, or farm market, or Wegman;'s willl have some 'local honey' the probiotics, and the Red Cell will both be in the horse section in the local Tractor Supply if you have one!
yeah, sadly "big honey" is bog money, and its easy to admix real honey with corn syrup, or make up entirely fake honey... so its always safer to buy it from a known beekeeper. Incidentally, i... think you are in Mass? a lot of the renn fair and SCA folks travel up and down the coast, so if you dont have a local person, i know The bee Folks travel up to New Hampshire once a year... i am fairly certain they either go to Massachusets or know good apiary folks @@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons
Frank my birds look healty i was just gonna used something to deworm before the races..should give medicine for respiratory or sallmonella? I been using vinagre with garlic alot for the last 6 month and is working fine
I would worm and vaccinate them but I never flock treat the birds with any antibiotics. If they look great use natural health products. Treat a sick individually with antibiotics if you want but flock treating with antibiotics will make your pigeons weaker.
I used to race twenty some years ago. had to give it up, work family you know. No, I'm getting close to retirement age and want to get pigeons again. So, Back when I was racing. I took all the advice from the old time flyers. They all pretty much say the same thing. After a race give this give that don't forget those. Before breeding do this after that. Well my birds never fared well in the races. So I got to thinking. How does a marathon runner take care of their body. Certainly not with a bunch of chemicals / poison. So I started going to health food And nutrition stores and buying different products for health and cleansing. Well wouldn't you know it, My bird started catching up and beating the old timers. Made them nervous. They certainly noticed the difference asking Asking me what i'm doing with my birds to make them improve. I just politely said everything you guys are telling me. All those herbal supplements also made the loft smell like an italian restaurant. Seriously.
This is great to hear and I know winning big with natural products can be done because I do it. Hope many go with natural products and stop all the antibiotic craziness. The sport and the pigeons will be much better for it. The health problems with young birds are terrible and maybe all the antibiotics over the last 30 years maybe the reason for this.
I would use the same schedule for the young bird team. I use the young bird season as experience for old birds to see what is good. I do not do any of the extras for the young birds. I do have the mix in the water when they return from the races and maybe apple cider Sunday and Monday. If you are a serious young bird fancier use this system. Off season and molting I give all the mineral mixes and good grain mix. Off season, maybe vitamins ounce a week and rarely anything else but nutrition and minerals. My birds do not need natural products to stay super healthy.
You should be able to find some old bird results here: pigeon-ndb.com/ewinspeed/report/ I race in the Braintreee SNE Club in the Southern New England Combine. I race the hens under Dan McLaughlin and the cocks under Frank McLaughlin. I race in the toughest club in the combine. I used the first race for training and then got going after that. Take a look at Old birds 2022, and before. I use young bird racing for experience and training and did not race 2022 young birds.
I vaccinate all the stock pigeons each year about a month before breeding. I use a PMV/Salmonella combo. When you say "Clean them out"? I do not medicate the pigeons ever. I worm the birds but no antibiotic flock treatments ever. I will treat a sick bird individually. My pigeons keep getting stronger.
The herbs may have antibiotic properties but are not antibiotics. Last two years I have used almost exclusively plain water and the results have still be excellent.
