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Dimethyl glycine (DMG) known commercially as Spur in North America, is said to be helpful in preventing lactic acidosis in horses on the track, and may also be similarly helpful in racing pigeons. As well , in Belgium, carnitine was shown to have some effect in decreasing lactic acid levels in blood. However, in my experience, light exercise beginning as soon as possible after any race, but especially after a tough one, is a simple and very practical therapy. Although the key triggering conditions that set the problem in motion seem to be days of prolonged rest immediately after a race, especially a long or tough one, there are other management factors that may contribute to the development of tying up. Vitamin E and the trace mineral selenium are both highly important in the maintenance of normal muscle structure, and both act to protect muscle fibres against degenerative changes that can occur with intensive work. For this reason, a water-soluble multivitamin mix containing vitamin E, and to which vitamin C can also be added, one to two days each week, is very useful on a routine basis throughout the year. Both vitamins C and E are antioxidants that help to prevent the damaging effects of oxygen in the form of peroxides, in tissues. As well, at all times of the year, fanciers should provide a loose, wide-ranging mineral mix that also contains selenium, which adds to the protective insurance provided by vitamin E. Because there is a very fine line indeed between normal and toxic levels of selenium, it is important NOT to add extra selenium to the mineral mix. Stay with the legal limits of selenium included in the mineral mix you buy. In my experience, in selenium-deficient areas, one result of that deficiency in livestock such as cattle and sheep grazing these areas, often foothills and mountainous terrain, can be sudden death of newborn animals when the heart is severely affected, or sudden paralysis because of degeneration of muscles in the limbs very soon after these young animals become active after delivery. In these areas of low selenium status, regular supplementation with mineral mixes containing selenium is generally preventive. Why raise the point about affected calves and lambs in an article on racing pigeons? Well, simply to explain that not only the forages eaten by livestock, but also the grains grown in these selenium-deficient areas and fed to our birds, are also likely to be very low in selenium. Thus there is value in the routine use in racing pigeons, of a loose wide-ranging mineral mix containing legal levels of selenium. We strive to provide only quality information, so if there is a specific topic related to Racing Pigeon Loft website that you would like us to cover, please contact us at any time. And again, thank you to those contributing daily to our Highflyer Pigeons website. << Return from Highflyer Pigeons page, back to Racing Pigeon Loft Home |