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[Chickielady]

http://www.jefferslivestock.com/luer-slip-syringes/camid/LIV/cp/11554/

Syringes are CHEEEEP!
I use them for lots of other stuff as well....a box of 50 for $11 or so.
Good for feeding & watering ill birds, and other things.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Good idea- I think properly marked droppers are also in the baby department at the grocery/drug store.

Drppers are rubber, too.
And cost more.
In the Jeffers on line catalog, they sell syringes CHEAP.
You only need 1 for dropping wormer on birds as there is no cross contamination really like injecting, and I think I got individually wrapped 50, for a few bucks.
Will last me my lifetime if I live to be 100.

Yes, but you don't fill up the dropper so that it touches the rubber bulb part. I only draw up enough to use for each bird. The little droppers you can get from your vet (if they have extras laying around) are really small, and only hold 1cc at a time, and are marked with 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 cc marks. Plus, even if the Eprinex got on the rubber bulb, it doesn't affect your ability to use the dropper, whereas when the Eprinex eats at the rubber on the plunger of a syringe, it affects your ability to depress the plunger - you have to press REALLY hard, and then it all shoots out at once - WAY too easy to overdo it that way...

BUT if you could find o-ring syringes, it would take care of that problem.

 

[pettec63]

Well I had one hell of a scare this morning! I saw my old boy "Abe" the arab, lying out in the pasture and he wasn't moving! So I jumped into my boots with my jammies on and went walking out calling him, he didn't pick up his head! Even as I got closer he still didn't move! I thought for sure he was dead and I started to cry, then just as got about two feet from him he looked up and then jumped up!! He stood there looking at me like, why you tryin to sneek up and scare me like that!! LOL I just hung on his neck and bawled! He's just one of those very few horses you have in your life that mean so much, they were there through all the pain, they moved with you and they help keep you sane!
I LOVE THAT HORSE!!

 

[pettec63]

No one's replied to my mean little roo post!!??

 

[pettec63]

Ok that's enough crying for one day!! LOL got stuff to do!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Drppers are rubber, too.
And cost more.
In the Jeffers on line catalog, they sell syringes CHEAP.
You only need 1 for dropping wormer on birds as there is no cross contamination really like injecting, and I think I got individually wrapped 50, for a few bucks.
Will last me my lifetime if I live to be 100.

Yes, but you don't fill up the dropper so that it touches the rubber bulb part. I only draw up enough to use for each bird. The little droppers you can get from your vet (if they have extras laying around) are really small, and only hold 1cc at a time, and are marked with 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 cc marks. Plus, even if the Eprinex got on the rubber bulb, it doesn't affect your ability to use the dropper, whereas when the Eprinex eats at the rubber on the plunger of a syringe, it affects your ability to depress the plunger - you have to press REALLY hard, and then it all shoots out at once - WAY too easy to overdo it that way...

BUT if you could find o-ring syringes, it would take care of that problem.

wow, how fast does it eat syringe rubber ?
I have never had the problem.
Most solvent type chemicals take weeks to dissolve rubber.
If it (Eprinex) is that caustic, does it harm skin ?

I am also not sure if Jeffers carries O-ring syringes.
All the boxes of O-rings that we have are all rubber.
DH has a big box with about 30 various sizes & thicknesses of O-rings, all are rubber.
Alot of people are allergic to nylon, so it has been my experience that nylon is never used in syringes.
Jeffers probably carries the droppers though, I have never looked...

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Some roo's just are plain mean and there is no fixing them. Some people think if you hold them more it can calm them down. But I think if that's their nature, their ain't no changin' it!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Yes, but you don't fill up the dropper so that it touches the rubber bulb part. I only draw up enough to use for each bird. The little droppers you can get from your vet (if they have extras laying around) are really small, and only hold 1cc at a time, and are marked with 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 cc marks. Plus, even if the Eprinex got on the rubber bulb, it doesn't affect your ability to use the dropper, whereas when the Eprinex eats at the rubber on the plunger of a syringe, it affects your ability to depress the plunger - you have to press REALLY hard, and then it all shoots out at once - WAY too easy to overdo it that way...

BUT if you could find o-ring syringes, it would take care of that problem.

wow, how fast does it eat syringe rubber ?
I have never had the problem.
Most solvent type chemicals take weeks to dissolve rubber.
If it (Eprinex) is that caustic, does it harm skin ?

I am also not sure if Jeffers carries O-ring syringes.
All the boxes of O-rings that we have are all rubber.
DH has a big box with about 30 various sizes & thicknesses of O-rings, all are rubber.
Alot of people are allergic to nylon, so it has been my experience that nylon is never used in syringes.
Jeffers probably carries the droppers though, I have never looked...

As soon as I put it in there it affects my ability to depress the plunger somewhat, BUT I have NEVER had a site reaction to it, and I've also had it all over my hands (spilled big time once) and my hands are pretty sensitive. I've never SEEN any damage to the plungers, but it just somehow affects how the plunger depresses....??

 

[Chickielady]

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huh ?

 

[Chickielady]

Clover I am gonna have to look up the droppers on Jeffer & see if they have them.
Glad I found this out before I tried to worm with the syringe !!
Thanks!!