pigeons/ bathing

okay david keep groveling

i do that most days ian...... its become a way of life now..... im only kidding about her really, i dont know how she has put up with me for all these years.....

Sorry no grovling from me as the family comes first everytime

yes don, same here....it has to do doesnt it. thankfully im not too restricted with my birds most of the time.

Not the same here at the moment mate

Once or twice a week I bath my birds if it's raining I don't bath them I add a bit of condy's crystals to it not much

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

oldstrain wrote:

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

Maybe maybe not O/S. Garlic, bleach/vinegar/salt. Virkon S, eucalyptus/tea tree oil or even copper sulphate to name a few others & at times etc just plain water can be of benefit I've found.
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I like the pigeons to have a bath, it tightens the feathers up and helps them moult ( I think...lol )

the only thing I put in the bath water is salt and vinegar.

oldstrain wrote:

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

How much would you use in a bath daz, found some here I had over from my fish keeping days.

Lofty wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

How much would you use in a bath daz, found some here I had over from my fish keeping days.

By all means, use it all up Lofty   "PP CC". Then may I suggest here from someone that knows absolutely nothing at all etc, you just get a plastic jar/container, I use a 500 ml plastic jar filled with water & 1 garlic bulb. Sit it out in the sun for a week to cook & suck it all in before placing the water mix in your bath water for the birds, then keep re-using it over & over again. Cheap as chips but Boy oh Boy, does it have an effect as such .  

about 1/4 tea spoon full up to 2 buckets of water atb

Knackered wrote:

Lofty wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

How much would you use in a bath daz, found some here I had over from my fish keeping days.

By all means, use it all up Lofty   "PP CC". Then may I suggest here from someone that knows absolutely nothing at all etc, you just get a plastic jar/container, I use a 500 ml plastic jar filled with water & 1 garlic bulb. Sit it out in the sun for a week to cook & suck it all in before placing the water mix in your bath water for the birds, then keep re-using it over & over again. Cheap as chips but Boy oh Boy, does it have an effect as such .  

Anything with garlic will have me throwing up all over the garden, so I think I'll leave that one knackered

oldstrain wrote:

about 1/4 tea spoon full up to 2 buckets of water atb

Nice one daz, thanks buddy.

Lofty wrote:

Knackered wrote:

Lofty wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

potassium permagnate great stuff for the bathwater

How much would you use in a bath daz, found some here I had over from my fish keeping days.

By all means, use it all up Lofty   "PP CC". Then may I suggest here from someone that knows absolutely nothing at all etc, you just get a plastic jar/container, I use a 500 ml plastic jar filled with water & 1 garlic bulb. Sit it out in the sun for a week to cook & suck it all in before placing the water mix in your bath water for the birds, then keep re-using it over & over again. Cheap as chips but Boy oh Boy, does it have an effect as such .  

Anything with garlic will have me throwing up all over the garden, so I think I'll leave that one knackered

Why you would only be smelling it as such the birds will drink it with gusto & joy etc.

It's the smell that does it for me , just turns my stomach and I start heaving all over the place

Lofty wrote:

It's the smell that does it for me , just turns my stomach and I start heaving all over the place

Smell early in my trade here lofty I did all the maintance issues at a place where they made tennis strings out of  animal gut etc amongst  other things. Some thing shocking in the smell department as such & you would have just loved a job there I suspect. 2 flyers I knew well back then, King & Johnson worked there & were neighbours, with one marrying the other ones sister at the time & you always knew when they come straight to the club from work with their birds. The old dunny man "Back yard job" was Mr clean in the smell department as such compared to the 2 above.
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