Squabs Three Weeks Old.
Squabs Four Weeks Old. Just Prime for Market.
CHAPTER VII
DISEASES OF PIGEONS
The very best way to escape trouble from diseases among pigeons is to prevent them by always keeping the lofts and flies in first-class condition. Carelessness is the worst disease that affects pigeons, and this is always manifest in the owner before it has any effect on the birds.
If the lofts are kept clean, the feed supplied is sound and sweet, the water pure and the feeding regular, the birds themselves will not often be troubled with diseases of any kind.
However, with all possible care, diseases will appear at times, and it is well to know what to do to prevent them from spreading and causing serious loss.
Epidemic diseases will never appear in a flock which has been properly cared for, unless they are brought in through putting newly purchased birds among the healthy ones.