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[Hillbilly Hen]

Maybe it was meant to be. Happy Birthday Nella's BF!

I hope it will be better weather for you next week.

 

[NellaBean]

wow Brandon, those are some nice flowers. Nicer than I've ever gotten

My boyfriend is too practical. He says WHY WASTE MONEY ON FLOWERS WHEN I CAN GIVE YOU A HOME DEPOT GIFTCARD? Which, you know, is AWESOME and all. But sometimes a girl wants some darn flowers.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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[PepsNick]

Haha, sorry to hear that, Nella. Tell BF your BYC friends say happy birthday. Brandon, WOAH! Nice flowers!

 

[Braclin]

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Well I kinda agree on the practicality of flowers, lol but it does feel nice!!

Thanks everyone!!

 

[Cetawin]

Brandon you stud muffin. Who did you impress? Nice flowers.

Nella dang she had them boxed and all and he had never been with a girl before. Pour boy has to wait now. Better to be safe Nella. Just keep me posted. I meed.your man's name and number to have a chat with him in the fine art of attempting to please a woman.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Morning all....I have 10 Col Rock babies!!! 3 from the Canadian pen and 7 from Ohio!! They are soooo cute. Will get pix after the sun comes up

Gloria Jean...I saw this post on another thread, thought it might be helpful

http://www.westvet.com/collibacilliosis.htm

I read the SPPA articles and gave special attention the the article on bleach in the birds' water...I had an issue with this last fall, with birds in a flock sneezing, coughing, unable to breathe and dying despite the $$$ of antibiotics I used...I went through Sulpha, into Tetracycline, then into injecting tylan for MG, and it went on and on, and I sent a bird to the Washington State Avian Health Lab, and then did cultures and necropsy (weeks have gone by now) and the cultures take more time, the bird examined, a blue copper marans hen, was found to have heavy sinus musous...
Then after surfing the internet and going NUTS for help, I found the article above.
2 cups of household bleach (CHEAP!!) in a gallon of water in a milk jug....from this solution, add 1 Tablespoon to a gallon of water for your birds that are healthy, and 2 Tablespoons of the solution to the water if your birds are sick...and all was well....
I lost several extremely expensive birds, Golden Cuckoo Marans Cockeral, among many others, and hundreds of dollars from one antibiotic after another...and all I needed was chlorine.
The birds dip deep, and rinse their beaks and sinus cavities...it cleansess the crop...and within 1 hr of giveing this solution...all was well.
It was amazing !
Wanted to say thanks for the article !!!
What they had was Collibaciliosis, E. Coli infection of the head/sinus...from water untreated by chlorine from our well...our home water is treated, our bird water was not.
And as it says in the SPPA article, bird feaces kicked into their water can reproduce and cause a build up of all sorts of nasty bacteria, even at cold temps.
Mind you, I scrub and clean bird water buckets every day...I do not use fonts left for days...I also use a biosecure system of washing one's boots in the same water with a few tablespoons of the bleach solution described.
So, everyone read the article in the winter bulletin of the SPPA, read what Charles Everett says about bleach in the bird's water.wink


Have a great day y'all

 

[speckledhen]

That's good advice, Scott. With this weather and them having to stay inside so much, I used part of an Amazon.com gift card to buy a gallon of Oxine. I haven't had any respiratory issues yet, but I would rather not get started on that! I'm going to have to start using the Oxine in each waterer. Plain old bleach is infinitely cheaper and does kill most viruses and bacteria. They say Oxine is several hundred times more effective than bleach, but you have to weigh the cost against added benefit; at least, most people so.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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We have "city water" or "county water" whatever, here. NO well.....do you think that the add't chlorine in the water will be ok for them or might it be too much??

 

[speckledhen]

We have good well water. It's been shocked several times and if you recall, recently, we had to replace the pump and tank and it was shocked then. Took two weeks for all the chlorine smell and taste to be gone from the water, but it's great tasting water and the well is 400 ft down. Mine have never had treated water at all. The filter on the house keeps sediment from coming through the faucets, but here is no heavy iron or anything in there.