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#1
17th May 2007, 06:35 AM
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Compass!! How old is he??this is "compass"... i have had him for about 11 days... the first pic is on the
3rd day having him; and the second is from today... how old is he do you think? and... his "bump" on his beak/ nostrils is alot smaller now; why? he's really starting to flutter about; not flying but flap his wings, like he's showing off... he's so cute! 
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#3
17th May 2007, 07:25 AM
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The "bump on the beak" is probably the ceres (wattle; nostrils) and the bird's growing up around them--they're staying the same size.
What I'm wondering though is about that bump under his chin. I'm not sure that I like the look of that. Did you ever get that stuff we were talking about earlier in the first big panic? Pidgey
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#4
17th May 2007, 07:28 AM
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Go look at this thread and the first picture (it's a link--gotta' click it) and you'll see a pretty bad version of what canker can do:
http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/showthread.php?t=20503 Pidgey
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#6
17th May 2007, 07:31 AM
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Compare the underneath side of Compass' chin to the picture of Simone in the first post of this thread:
http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/showthread.php?t=20550 Pidgey
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#9
17th May 2007, 07:51 AM
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Kind of looks like food on and around his face to me.
Sure is acute one. It would be impossible not to fall in live with him.
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#11
17th May 2007, 10:41 AM
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i have ronidazole!ok, apparently my compass has canker (2 bumps under his chin area) i ordered the ronidazole just in case the other day and it has arrived!! so now i need to know how much to give him and how often... the label says 1 tablet a day for 3 days ( oh and they are 30mg)... do i just pop one of the pills down his throat? please help!
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#12
17th May 2007, 12:02 PM
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Are you sure it's 30 milligrams? According to the formulary, Ronidazole should be dosed at 10 milligrams of pure medicine per 1 kilogram of bird, orally. This bird's probaby 200 to 250 grams so the dose should be 2.0 to 2.5 milligrams per day.
Pidgey
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#13
17th May 2007, 12:13 PM
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Did you get them at Foy's or where? I went there and didn't see the level of product detail necessary to make the judgment call. This is a catalog entry for JEDDS on Ronidazole tablets:
http://www.jedds.com/ProductDetail.a...ProductID=2405 Generally, a homing pigeon is larger than a feral, especially one this young. So, those 5 milligram pills are just about right for the average-sized homer. Now, what you may not know without investigating is that a pill often has other material in it so that it's really a lot heavier than the actual weight of the medicine alone. You'd normally think that they wouldn't list that as the pill's size though but some repackager's seem to be a bit lax. Pidgey
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17th May 2007, 12:21 PM
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oh god i know i am being retarded it but what do i do? should i crush the pill and divided it to the right amount and put it in his food?
2 mg of 30 mg is not alot... what if i don't give him enough or i give him too much... like i said i am retarted... please help... tell me what to do
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