Special Care During Homing Pigeons Races

Video Transcript

"My name is Joseph Shung Chiang Lee. When the pigeons come back from the races, you have to wash them and you have to clean them. You wash them with warm water, put some Detol, some anti-bacterial because when the pigeon goes into racing pigeon, there might be some sick pigeon or some pigeon carrying some disease. Then on top of that when they come back home, a lot of people there give some pain killer or something to make them recover fast. Some people they use Anikah, homeopathy medicines and there are some Chinese medicines also they use to release the pain to recover them fast. Some of the fans here when the pigeon come back from a long distance race, really tired they soak grains and give them. So it becomes a little bit easier for them to digest. When they come back from long distance race, they rest the pigeon for about 1 day or maybe 2 days. Then again they are released every day for exercise. Of course, sunning the bird is also important. Some we do put the pigeon in the cage and put it under the sun for sometime. Like once in a week or so, we put water for them to have a bath so these are the things that most of the fancier in Calcutta practice. Of course there are a lot of secret formula they have. A lot of people are using some capsule called Rye Jelly which is supposed to be the food for the queen bee. They go to the hornet, bee hive. They collect all the food that we just kept for the queen bee and they put in capsule form and sold in the market and the name is Rye Jelly. "