Fertility Problem

[Pigeonpal2002]

Originally Posted by Rascar Capac

Brad n Treesa,

Are the supplements you said above (i.e. vitamin E, brewers yeast) dog supplements?
If you recommend specific products, please let me know. Thx


RC

Hi RC,

No, these are pigeon supplements that you can either purchase for what they are, or offer natural things in the way of food stuff to that will provide the vitamins (vitamin E) specifically. The brewers yeast probably could be gained from any capsules meant for dogs and it's the "B" vitamins in the yeast you're trying to offer to the bird.

[De "019"]

Best to go and see a vet. Ask for a male homone injectable, preferably duratesterone ar something like it. They use it to recover cats and dogs after operations as well. This will give them a boost in thei manhood. Inject 0.2 ml in the neck. Sametime you need to inject with a gonadotrophine female hormone, they use to get the pigs fertile or to get them ready to mate, you need this to get a good sperm production. Also 0.2 ml in the neck. Most of the time the male hormone is on oil base so it will be active for some weeks. The female one is on waterbase and you should re-inject again after 5 days. If that doesn’t help, it will be a problem. Also give a lot of vitamine E, calium tablets I am not sure of that will help.

[jbangelfish]

From your description, it appears that they were being treated for Paratyphoid. As someone said, sulpha drugs are easier on the birds and treat this as well as some other diseases. Too late now anyway as they already had something else and maybe too much of it.

They may get better on their own over time but some vitamins could certainly help. I would be careful with vitamin E as it seems to make their hormones rage and they can become very aggressive. It may not hurt to try it but I'd watch their behavior closely. My Gouldian Finches acted as if they'd gone insane when I gave vitamin E and I took them off of it in short order.

A few drops of tamed iodine per gallon of water is also supposed to improve fertility and certainly causes no harm to the birds. I tried this many years ago and it did seem to help with some german toy breeds that I had. It will also kill any harmful bacteria in the water. Just make sure it is tamed iodine if you try it and not tincture of iodine which is not diluted.

Bill