Show off your Peas!

[babybluegurl22]

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Check out this transport method, i got permission to share them so i put his name on the photos.

How interesting!!

More pictures of my purple:

Pretty peas!

That or this:




-Kathy

What an interesting idea Kathy! First time I've ever seen peas INSIDE before.

Handsome boy!!

 

[MinxFox]

so how many use sevin dust for there birds....well read this article on the effects...you will be shocked...i was....here is one part of the article
http://www.healthyworld.org/sevin.html
Carbaryl (1-naphthyl methyl carbamate) is one of the three most commonly used insecticides in the United States with an estimated annual use of between 10 and 15 million pounds.3 ... It is a broad-spectrum insecticide and is registered for use on more than 100 different crops, animals, ornamental plants, and indoor areas.4 ... It has been registered in the U.S. since 1958.4 Previously manufactured by Union Carbide,7 the primary U.S. manufacturer is now Rhone Poulenc Agricultural Company; many of its carbaryl-containing products are marketed under the brand name Sevin.8
Mode of Action
Carbaryl is a carbamate insecticide. Like all members of this chemical family, it inhibits the action of an enzyme that is an essential component of insect, fish, bird, and mammal nervous systems. The enzyme, acetyl cholinesterase (AChE), controls the chemical reaction that transforms acetylcholine into choline after acetylcholine has been used to transmit nerve impulses across the junctions between nerves. Without functioning AChE, acetylcholine accumulates and prevents the smooth transmission of nerve impulses.9 This causes loss of normal muscle control, and ultimately death. The AChE inhibition is said to be reversible because the carbaryl disassociates from the AChE within several hours. This happens even if death has already occurred. Insecticides in the organophosphate family (malathion and diazinon, for example) also inhibit AChE, but the inhibition is not as readily reversible.10
Carbaryl can also affect a number of other enzyme systems in living things. For example, the carboxylesterases (detoxification enzymes),11 lactic dehydrogenase (enzymes that utilize sugar),12 and serine esterases (enzymes important to the function of certain immune system components)13 are all inhibited by carbaryl.

Carbaryl's extensive and varied uses account for the frequent occurrence of residues on food. In addition, though carbaryl is generally thought to have "short term residual properties,"3 under certain conditions it can be persistent. For example, carbaryl sprayed on bean leaves at least ten hours before rainfall was washed away slowly and "never attained 100 percent dissipation."4 Chickens treated for mites with a carbaryl dip laid eggs with carbaryl residues for 56 days after treatment

The peafowl have mites on them again, and I was thinking about trying seven dust this time so I would like to see responses to this.
I think there has been some debate on this topic already, and I think many people use it on lots and lots of birds without issue. I think some put the dust where the peafowl dust bathe while others put the bird's body in a sack and put the dust in the sack and lightly shake it so that they get covered in the dust. I can't think of a time when I read of someone's bird dying from sevin dust, but I have been worried about using it since it is for killing bugs off of plants and not exactly a bird product.

What is it that powder chinchillas roll in? Could you just use any kind of powder?

 

[Garden Peas]

If i'm going to do it like you i will properly spend all the rest of the day cleaning the car!

Well, having had small children... not sure a few peas would mess the vehicle any worse

(I still think they should send you home from the hospital with a steam cleaner in that baby bonus bag...)

 

[MinxFox]

I was a messy little kid for sure! Sometimes my mom would get me a taco from Taco bell as a treat, and I would get taco filling all in the seat cracks, on the floorboard, in my car seat, etc.

Peep never took many car trips when he was a peachick, but every time he did he always made it a point to do a very bad poo in the car.

I wonder what people driving by Kathy thought when they saw a peacock in the passenger seat! "Oh, I must have not had enough coffee this morning."

 

[destinduck]

All Ive ever used is sevin dust. All over In the pens and outside of em as well and directly on birds too.If there was any harm in it i surely would have killed some of my birds by now as much as I have shook all over everything. " 5 % Sevin dust ready to use" its called.

 

[DylansMom]

All Ive ever used is sevin dust. All over In the pens and outside of em as well and directly on birds too.If there was any harm in it i surely would have killed some of my birds by now as much as I have shook all over everything. " 5 % Sevin dust ready to use" its called.

X2, I have 20 year old Peas and I've been Sevin dusting them and their pens, perches and dusting areas for at least 15 of those years.

 

[zazouse]

X2, I have 20 year old Peas and I've been Sevin dusting them and their pens, perches and dusting areas for at least 15 of those years.

I also use seven dust , mostly in my ground brooders where i raise chicks because it is high ground when it rains the ants head there to get out of the water, works great and have never lost a chick to the stuff.

 

[birdman55]

well thats reassuring that its not harmful...reading an article like that...i just wanted to share with all the bird lovers out there...cause i just bought 4 things of sevin dust and planned on using it...now that i know that people dont have any issues with them...i will indeed use it....thanks for the input everyone...i guess being new at birds you become paranoid at things you read or hear might harm them....

 

[zazouse]

The peafowl have mites on them again, and I was thinking about trying seven dust this time so I would like to see responses to this.
I think there has been some debate on this topic already, and I think many people use it on lots and lots of birds without issue. I think some put the dust where the peafowl dust bathe while others put the bird's body in a sack and put the dust in the sack and lightly shake it so that they get covered in the dust. I can't think of a time when I read of someone's bird dying from sevin dust, but I have been worried about using it since it is for killing bugs off of plants and not exactly a bird product.

What is it that powder chinchillas roll in? Could you just use any kind of powder?

Minx if you have wood ashes make a dust area with them they will get rid of the mites and lice also, when i burn a pile of trees the peas here head straight for that ash pile to dust just as soon as it cools. never use ashed from treated wood or any kind of trash just ash from wood and leaves