Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pestkop) A pigeon fancier told me last week when he was having his pigeons examined that he thought I hated antibiotics very much. I had to smile. Smile because this image has apparently come about over the years because I've been promoting a more natural approach for many years…

Pigeon vaccines In the last few months pigeon magazines have published various articles about the vaccination of pigeons. I also made some comments on it. What strikes me, however, is that the opinions of the various pigeon doctors are quite far apart on various points. There are doctors who advocate live vaccines while…

Antibiotics and Paratyphoid As early as the 1990s, it was clear that the excessive use of antibiotics carries the risk that the bacteria they are supposed to fight against increasingly resist these active substances. Old habits are difficult to change, so very little has been done to stop the use of them in these years…

Did you know that? In pigeon racing there are a number of problems from a medical point of view that are often underexposed. This means that all kinds of misunderstandings also remain. This ranges from simple things to more complex problems. If we look at the simple things, we come to trichomonads, coccidiosis…

The pigeon sport has changed Nobody will argue that the pigeon sport has changed enormously in the last 50 years. If we just look at the number of breeders who still practice the sport. That number has dropped dramatically. Although the number of breeders has decreased enormously, the…

Health Prices for the coming year are made during the moulting period. I have been proclaiming this fact for years. I regularly hear that breeders distance themselves from the pigeons for a while after the flights and more or less leave them to their own devices. I think that's a shame because one…

The moulting season The moulting season is the most important period of the whole year. The importance of good care cannot be overstated. However, there are still many breeders who shift down a gear during the moulting season and leave it to nature. On the one hand understandable, because life offers more than just…

Cures or not cures? In this Corona time everything seems to be different. I think everyone was initially unsure how this virus would play out. Now, after a few months, a lot is becoming clear. For example, the death rate appears to be around 0.26%. Much less than for example…

About Vaccines When I see how many questions I get about vaccines, I find it useful to focus on that topic again. There is a lot to be said about vaccination. Not least because of the corona vaccine, which has to come in order, as we are taught, to live normally again…

date again – Stay out of the pups is a topic in which you move in pigeon racing on very thin ice. There is no question that is asked in the consulting room so often. In recent years, one can observe reinforces that juveniles do not find their way back to the blow. There…