Using Garlic

[Diamond Dave]

Just catching up on this thread. Can I ask all those that use the garlic if you seal the bottle/container during the overnight process or is it left open.

[Diamond Dave]

Does anyone use Garlic in the bath water.....?

[Diamond Dave]

Ah, I wasn't thinking about creepy crawlies or anything like that
I was thinking more for conditioning the feathers - lol, might seem like I am obsessed with feather condition!
Perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree! but heres the thing - I have taken everyone good advice about putting the garlic in the water (thankyou) and whats left in the bottle after a week, I just wondered about putting it the bath water rather than tipping it away....?

[Diamond Dave]

Mike, I wouldn't ever question any of your posts, so please for give me for asking ( just trying to broaden my own very limited knowledge) - it seems to me that vinegar in the bath water could have a detrimental effect on the feathers. Would you use it as a regular treatment or just on medicinal occasions?

[Diamond Dave]

That'd be the condice crystals George - permanganese phosphate or something like that.
Me dad used to use it in the fish tank if the fish ever got whitespot lol.

[Diamond Dave]

[quote="Diamond Dave"

Historically I always gave salt in rhe water.

One day George Litherland was at our house and saw me filling the bucket of water for the birds. I reached for the salt and he tapped me on the shoulder, winked at me and said "Put vinegar in there youth not salt".. I saw him do this at his own lofts in later years too. Now George was the best all round pigeon man I ever met (and I've met some bloody good ones) so his words were enough for me - and to be honest I rarely found any mite on any of my birds - and their conditioning was second to none. My birds would glide through your fingers. They bathed in vinegar every week for years. Just normal malt vinegar. I never measured it either - just a splosh between two buckets of water

Aah thanks so much for that little snippet Mike - my birds will get a 'splosh' or two of the vinegar in their baths from now on.

[Diamond Dave]

Listerine Devo???
That sounds a bit random mate - should I be treating for bad breath now? lol

[Keelem1]

Never had problems with lice etc George
As I hold each bird every week in quite warm
Bucket of water with virkon in ,each bird 1 minute each bird
With just there head sticking out then it takes most of the day for them to dry out feather so soft after they dru out George