The Quack Shack

[Jenbirdee]

Blanca - having PTSD? Nooo! - She is causing PTSD!
The condition Blanca has is UCMWA!

Spoiler: What does UCMWA mean?

Un-Curable Meal-Worm Addiction!

Still, i envy you: I doubt that i would be able to give one of my birds an injection...

when its life or death and you have to do it you just do it. My Dad always said "just do it!:
I had a cat got bit by a snake it took a chunk out of her and I had to shoot antibiotic right into the wound.
Did not think I could, but I did.
(and she healed up real well)

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is interesting especially since we are asked quite often about adding oats to our ducks feed to prevent angel wing. Not sure if this would pertain to waterfowl but I would rather err on the side of caution.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/the-shocking-effect-of-oatmeal/

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

This is interesting especially since we are asked quite often about adding oats to our ducks feed to prevent angel wing. Not sure if this would pertain to waterfowl but I would rather err on the side of caution.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/the-shocking-effect-of-oatmeal/

Don't Panic! - Fake news! - At least very poorly researched:

1. According to Wikipedia, Beta Glucans are polysaccharides, meaning: A bunch of simple sugars (Fructose, Glucose, Maltose,…) have coupled together to form a larger molecule. Starch is a polysaccharide, so is cellulose and lignin in trees.
   The assumption that a polysaccharide can create a gel that is blocking a birds intestine is simply ridiculous. Chickens are able to digest the chitin exoskeleton of arthropods, one of the hardest to digest polysaccharide nature produces.
   And even if Beta Glucans would create a gel in the chickens intestines, what mechanism would prevent such a gel from moving through the intestines, finally leaving the bird at the rear end?
2. From the four citations, listed at the end of the article, the first two (articles.extensions.org) and the last one (thermalnet.missoury.edu) point to none existing servers.
3. The article behind the third citation-link (poultry.caes.uga.edu) says nothing about Glucans. The word "Glucan" is not present in the article.

However, the comparison of nutrients between layer feed and a serving of oatmeal is correct.
But that is comparing apples with oranges or more fitting apples with eggs. You would not feed your chickens oatmeal only, would you? Feeding a bowl with oatmeal and blocking access to their layer-feed? - Of course not!
You feed oatmeal as a treat to your chickens, like meal-worms, crickets, scratch grain, corn on the cob, …

I feed my ducks cooked rice for dinner before a cold night. And i put some sugar into the cooking water, so the result is a carbohydrate-bomb. And carbs are an excellent source for quickly accessible energy that the ducks can use to generate body-heat to stay warm during cold winter nights.
Do i feed them sugar-rice every evening? - Of course not!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

when its life or death and you have to do it you just do it. My Dad always said "just do it!:
I had a cat got bit by a snake it took a chunk out of her and I had to shoot antibiotic right into the wound.
Did not think I could, but I did.
(and she healed up real well)

Well, i learned to use an insulin-pen on myself, so maybe you are right: I a life or death situation i may be able to do what's necessary. - And pass out later…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Talking about Blanca Duck: Again she spent the day outside in her duckling box, at least it was sunny outside… Then something strange happened during her physical-therapy in the bathtub. She got soaked! I went outside to serve the flock their supper-bowl and when i came back in after a few minutes, Blanca looked more like a wet cleaning rag, her body was underwater, she was standing on the bottom of the tub and wanted out immediately. She did not even protested when i grabbed her. And she was heavy like a soaked sponge, a lot of water ran down from her plumage. It took two towels to dry her up. She didn't want to watch a duck-video with me, all she wanted is to go to her favorite spot on the patio and preen herself. She is sleeping like a duckling now.
I have no idea what has happened. I have never seen a duck that wet!

 

[Jenbirdee]

what do you think of this
( i am using only the silver in nebulizer presently, but I am considering the addition of DMSO, because I happen to have a bottle of it)
Colloidal silver is a solution of silver nano-particle suspended in water. It by a physical process (aka bypassing resistance) is able to decimate bacteria, virus and fungus.

DMSO is an really interesting old school solvent that allows the colloidal silver to penetrate soft tissue, enabling it to move quickly throughout the body with no resistance.

When you nebulize these two into an aerosol solution, it enables the colloidal silver to work through the lungs into the bloodstream and rapidly dispense with foreign invaders.

 

[Jenbirdee]

what do you think of this
( i am using only the silver in nebulizer presently, but I am considering the addition of DMSO, because I happen to have a bottle of it)
Colloidal silver is a solution of silver nano-particle suspended in water. It by a physical process (aka bypassing resistance) is able to decimate bacteria, virus and fungus.

DMSO is an really interesting old school solvent that allows the colloidal silver to penetrate soft tissue, enabling it to move quickly throughout the body with no resistance.

When you nebulize these two into an aerosol solution, it enables the colloidal silver to work through the lungs into the bloodstream and rapidly dispense with foreign invaders.

@WannaBeHillBilly what do you think you have a background in chemistry

 

[Luv Ducks]

This is interesting especially since we are asked quite often about adding oats to our ducks feed to prevent angel wing. Not sure if this would pertain to waterfowl but I would rather err on the side of caution.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/the-shocking-effect-of-oatmeal/

Glad I have only given mine Poultry pellets or crumbles and lettuce after reading all of that. Thanks for the info Miss Lydia.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@WannaBeHillBilly what do you think you have a background in chemistry

I have read a lot about colloidal Silver in the last 24 hours and my conclusion is that i would not use it for internal treatment. The mechanism how Silver is destroying bacteria, viruses and fungi in not entirely understood, but believed to be mechanical, at least partially.
The mechanism of action looks a bit similar to Iodine solution, where the Iodine just reacts with the proteins, deactivating them. While Iodine is aggressively creating covalent- or ionic-bonds, which are very strong, the Silver atoms are reacting with a far weaker complex-bond that are weak enough to be taken apart by the enzymes in our cells, so not harming those. - That's what i understood.
An interesting page from the Department of Health and Human Services:
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/colloidal-silver-what-you-need-to-know
I will use colloidal Silver for external treatment (eyes, scratches, minor wounds) but not internally and i consider the lung tissue as internal. I remember a couple of years ago there was a story about a man who ingested/injected(?) colloidal silver and his skin became purple. You don't want Poppy to become a purple duck?!

As for the Dimethylsulfoxid: How old is the bottle that you have? That stuff is broken up by UV-light and the resulting thio-ethers and thio-alcohols smell really bad. Trust me, i know all too well what i'm writing about, as teenagers we explored these classes of compounds excessively… Some thio-alcohols smelled not too bad (i.e. pop-corn, just cubed) but most of them made us gag. DMSO has been used in the past a some kind of wonder-drug, before it was discovered that it can »be harmful to the eye«, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide#Toxicity

I would stick to good old DHMO as a solvent.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Can somebody with more constitution than me come amputate the bone that is sticking out where Poofys middle toe used to be? I can't imagine lopping off a penis, though I had to have one lopped off. Her toe fell off but there is still some bone left. I want to take her to the vet but dh says he will cut it off.