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On checking my local permissions during the week which were very very quiet, and much the same lack of pigeon dropping in on my garden area, plus driving about in the Essex area put ??? in my head.

One farmer asked me if there was a pigeon disease going about as he has picked up 6 pigeon in less than a week around his buildings dead,  without a sign off being shot, blood or otherwise looking sick or in a bad condition, anybody else seeing similar ?

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My dog brought one in to me yesterday from outside. No sign of any damage from predators or shot. Never thought anymore as could be old age or hit off car and made it to tree to die later.

Hope there isn't a disease Killing them, like with rabbits and now hares.

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36 minutes ago, Farmboy91 said:

Ive has a couple in the last couple weeks that have had hardly any meat on the breast, not sure if its relevant to this? 

Possibly, when they get canker they can no longer swallow food and lose weight quickly, they become very weak and lethargic and die, very few pigeons recover from pigeon canker.

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3 hours ago, deny essex said:

On checking my local permissions during the week which were very very quiet, and much the same lack of pigeon dropping in on my garden area, plus driving about in the Essex area put  in my head.

One farmer asked me if there was a pigeon disease going about as he has picked up 6 pigeon in less than a week around his buildings dead,  without a sign off being shot, blood or otherwise looking sick or in a bad condition, anybody else seeing similar ?

I haven't been since last Saturday week due to the wet weather and game shooting yesterday , the Pigeons we got last Saturday were in lovely condition with a lot of the young ones as fat as butter and now getting the White bars on there necks , touch wood we haven't found any dead ones laying about .

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