Oxine as effective disinfectant?

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I wonder, then, if I can use deactivated Oxine vapor around my birds to control airborne respiratory pathogens and use the activated for general disinfectant with birds removed.


Virkon is so expensive, that I don't want to that route unless I'm nuking my whole property.
 
I purchased Oxine AH as a disinfectant and have no reason to not like it. I do not have any diseases in my flock, but that is what I use to disinfect waterers and feeders. And, after reading about the respiratory therapy, since I already had the Oxine I purchased a little personal humidifier strictly for chicken use. Before getting chickens, I think I read about every dang disease possible, including all the respiratory ailments. I hope I never have to use it, but I have it just in case.
 
Cyprus said:
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There are alternatives, but food grade citric acid is readily available. It changes the pH and makes it more powerful, taking it from stabilized chlorine dioxide to free chlorine dioxide. There is a very good dilution table in the pdf I mentioned. I don't know how to link to it directly, but to find it you search for: 009804-00001-20140113.pdf
 
Ms Biddy said:
There are alternatives, but food grade citric acid is readily available. It changes the pH and makes it more powerful, taking it from stabilized chlorine dioxide to free chlorine dioxide. There is a very good dilution table in the pdf I mentioned. I don't know how to link to it directly, but to find it you search for: 009804-00001-20140113.pdf
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Here it is
 

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Cyprus said:
Hmmm
I wonder, then, if I can use deactivated Oxine vapor around my birds to control airborne respiratory pathogens and use the activated for general disinfectant with birds removed.
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Yes, you can do that. I will say that part of why I started digging deeper is because some people use it directly on birds as a vapor *activated* at 200 ppm (500 ppm is what you use in an empty coop). Apparently Animal Revival Health, the distributor, used to endorse this. It is no where on their website now and is not an approved use. However, I have read first hand accounts from people who originally obtained that dilution rate and use directly from ARH and still do it.
 

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