What to feed a sick pigeon at home: diet and what not to do

If many consider themselves experts in feeding healthy pigeons, then handling a sick bird causes uncertainty and a desire to find an authoritative source of information. Not only can proper nutrition be a significant addition to treatment, it is designed to ease the functioning of the digestive tract, a disorder that very often accompanies various ailments. What can you feed a sick pigeon at home?
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Diet for a sick pigeon

The menu of an unhealthy bird depends on the disease from which it is currently suffering. Vitamin deficiencies require major adjustments to the pigeon's diet.

Symptoms	Treatment menu
Poor appetite, developmental delays, delayed molting, discoloration of beaks and limbs in chicks. Deterioration of vision, thinness, defective eggs, growths and keratinization of the skin, paralysis of the limbs in adults.	2-5 drops of fish oil every day, fish and meat and bones, grass meal, clover, carrots, millet.
Weakness, curvature of the keel bone, softening of the beak, brittle bones.	10 drops of fish oil per day, yeast, meat and bone meal, greens, egg shells.
Drowsiness, impaired coordination of movements, dystrophy in young animals. Sexual dysfunction in adults of both sexes.	Sprouted grains, legumes, meat and bone meal, dry yeast.
Head thrown back, diarrhea, muscle paralysis.	Bran, yeast, fish, herbal, meat and bone meal, greens.
Blood stains in the eyeball, emaciation, weakness, delayed molting, diarrhea.	Yeast, milk, vegetables, grass.
Poor plumage, stunted growth in chicks.	Unhulled grains, yeast, animal and fish products, cabbage, carrots, clover, alfalfa.
Trembling, swollen joints, mucus from the nose, intestinal upset, liquid feathers.	Yeast, carrots, cereal seeds, unrefined grains, greens.
Weakness, decreased muscle mass, underdevelopment.	Eggs, seaweed, meat and bone meal, whey.
Baldness, weakness, neck paralysis.	Assorted grains, herbs, yeast.
Refusal to eat, skin problems, seizures.	Combined bran, greens, yeast.

When diagnosing gout, the pigeon’s diet is saturated with fresh herbs and a variety of vegetarian foods. No salt is added to the feed.

Inflammation of the goiter is determined by its palpation in a pigeon that does not want to eat and is ruffled. When pressed, liquid and gases appear, which escape through the beak, spreading a sour odor.

Expert:

After washing the crop, the bird is given a decoction of flaxseed with a syringe. After a couple of hours, milk, decoctions of vegetables and grains are introduced in the same way.