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After all, you did notice evidence of loose droppings on their perches the morning after they homed, and now they have trouble flying. You shake your head. How can this be paratyphoid? You vaccinated all race and stock birds with an approved vaccine before the birds were paired. In spite of the fact that the birds look bright, you continue to be concerned about paratyphoid. The rest of the flock looks fine, but you wonder if this is the beginning of a major problem. The possibility that the birds picked up this organism during shipment, plus the stress of a tough race, and the presence of loose droppings a couple of days ago, along with wobbly, difficult flight now might mean that paratyphoid organisms entered the bloodstream from the intestines and were spread to a number of tissues, including the wing joints, and maybe the brain. If it’s not paratyphoid, what is wrong with these two birds? Another thought that occurs to you - even though Australia and New Zealand haven’t had a known outbreak of paramyxovirus (PMV) infection in pigeons, could the problem in these two birds be the start of this viral infection? Maybe an infected pigeon entered the country on a foreign ship that docked at one of your ports. Could an outbreak have begun when an infected pigeon in a legal shipment began to have clinical signs of the disease after it was released from quarantine? Tying up is a condition involving the working muscles of an athletic animal after it has experienced a hard race or competition in which it has overexerted itself. It is seen in horses on the track, in human athletes, greyhounds and certainly, in pigeons, etc.. One of the worst and most severe expressions of this problem that I have encountered in my professional experience is called capture myopathy or exertional myopathy (myo=muscle; pathos=suffering; hence, the word refers to any disease or condition of muscle, in this case, degeneration), a condition which I was able to study extensively in wildlife at one point in my career. Capture myopathy occurs in various wildlife species, such as those that are captured either in baited traps or by driving them at high intensity into enclosures, often with ground vehicles and helicopters. Many more cases of this condition occur when these intense drives are held in hot weather compared with fewer cases when drives are held in cool weather. Some of the key clinical signs of capture myopathy include marked muscular stiffness and associated pain, lethargy, depression, the passage of red or coffee-coloured urine, and sudden death if the heart muscle is affected. The urine is discoloured because of extensive damage to the muscle, from which the pigmented, oxygen-carrying, iron-containing compound called myoglobin (similar to haemoglobin which gives blood its red colour) leaks, enters the bloodstream and is filtered though the kidneys into the urine. At post mortem, significant changes are seen in a number of skeletal muscles, especially in those of the limbs, but also in the diaphragm and heart. These changes are seen as large, pale yellow or white streaks in the muscle, and indicate severe degeneration of the affected muscles. 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 Lost Pigeons website. << Return from Lost Pigeons page, back to Racing Pigeon Loft Home |