Tollisan Electrolyte Balance 500g

The administration of electrolytes to racing pigeons was adopted from human sport. This is an error in thinking and a misconception – as is often the case – when the use of human products is transferred to the animal sector.

People sweat when they exercise and excrete salts and electrolytes via their sweat glands. Athletes must therefore compensate for this loss by replenishing electrolytes in order to recover quickly. This quickly restores the balance.

However, anyone who transfers this to racing pigeons forgets that racing pigeons do not have sweat glands! Have you ever seen a racing pigeon coming back from a prize flight covered in sweat?

If pigeons had sweat glands, their feathers would definitely be wet and sticky from sweat after a strenuous flight. However, pigeons can only fly poorly with wet feathers. Evolution has reacted to this and was intelligent enough to simply leave out the sweat glands in pigeons.

The truth is: racing pigeons only suffer a loss of protein or weight on prize flights, and this should be quickly compensated for with high doses of amino acids such as Tollyamin Forte or Sedochol Plus and a high-quality animal protein product such as Immunol. However, there is still a sensible use of electrolytes in the poultry sector, namely for chickens that have to lay eggs every day. Electrolyte supplementation is essential there.

Electrolyte supplementation would therefore also be extremely useful for sedentary breeding pigeons that lay one, two, three or more clutches of eggs and raise young every year for several years. Some breeding hens would then not feel quite dehydrated and emaciated after a few years, because the breeding hen compensates for a lack of electrolytes in the egg formation phase by breaking down minerals from her own skeleton. This is nature’s way of protecting the egg from a deficiency. Nature could not have foreseen that racing pigeon breeders would build breeding lofts and have breeding pigeons lay eggs almost like chickens.

For this reason, we have also dosed our new special mixture 30 times higher than conventional electrolyte mixtures. The administration of Electrolyte Balance will also prevent the wetting of the young pigeons in the nest, which occurs more frequently during the second rearing. You will certainly have noticed how wet the droppings of young pigeons in the nest sometimes become. This wet droppings are usually caused by an electrolyte imbalance.

Manufacturer No. BE100717