The national standard squab book . orce open its bill and you will see a yellowish patch orpatches in the motith, and the mouth will usually be filledwith a yellowish deposit which smells bad. The disease isnot serious. The trouble lies with the feed and the filth andthat is what spreads the same symptoms from one pigeon toanother. A case of canker in your flock should be a warningto you that the feed or water is wrong, or that youhave a filthy house. Do not get alarmed and kill the the affected pigeon, carry it out of your flying penand squab house and throw it into the air. The bi
The national standard squab book . orce open its bill and you will see a yellowish patch orpatches in the motith, and the mouth will usually be filledwith a yellowish deposit which smells bad. The disease isnot serious. The trouble lies with the feed and the filth andthat is what spreads the same symptoms from one pigeon toanother. A case of canker in your flock should be a warningto you that the feed or water is wrong, or that youhave a filthy house. Do not get alarmed and kill the the affected pigeon, carry it out of your flying penand squab house and throw it into the air. The bird mayfly away and lose itself, and if it does you are out one pigeonjust as if you had killed it. The chances are, however, as inthe case of any sick animal, that it will linger around you will be surprised to see how quickly that pigeonshealth will improve. Not having a steady supply of foodbefore it, it will have to hustle for a Hving, and this exerciseand the change of living, and the scanty living, will effect the 89. PAIR OF HOMERS illustration is made from a photograph of a pair of our pigeons caught inthe act of hilling, or kissing. The pigeon on the left is the male and on the rightthe female. Hilling is one of the acts of love making. Mounting and treadinggenerally follow immediately after billing. 90 PIGEONS AILMENTS 91 cure. It will get more fresh air, and a great deal more exercise,and moi-e sun, than it would get if left in company with theother birds. In about a week you will notice that it will holdits bill tighter, and if there is a sore on the outside of the billyou will see this sore dry up. In two weeks the chances arethat the yellowish deposit on the interior of the mouth willbe entirely gone. The pigeon will hover around the otherpigeons. It will fly to the outside of the netting and look atits fellows. Place a dish on the ground now and then with alittle feed and you will attract it. Catch it when you have afavorable opportunity eith
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