Aussie Finch Forum

We used to also use Pea Beau and low-irritant mortein interchangeably (how sensitive & considerate to animal welfare we were!) & hung peststrips in the enclosed part of each aviary. I once killed a poor gasping cock Ruddy when we only had Baygon in the cupboard - one of those lessons never forgotten. Never tried anything in the seed. I wonder if in future the current flagrant use of coopex ad lib will be looked back upon in a similar way that we now regard the notion of chemical bombing birds with fly spray??

All this is deemed irrelevant if a flock worming with moxidectin is carried out at least twice per year.

Tiaris,

Sounds very similar to things that happened in years gone by. The long yellow Shelltox strips which you hung everywhere we ok as far as I was told by pigeon blokes and other bird keepers. Insect only, but just had to make sure you had them in cages so the birds couldn't chew them. In regards to Baygon/Baycox when it first came out, mum sprayed it around willy nilly one night, straight on to the air pump for the aquarium and around the wicker basket where my 3 week old hand raised crow was. Aquarium died overnight, all bar one molly that lived for 2 years with no water change or whatever. As for the crow, he coughed a bit, seemed ok but being a stupid young bloke the big cockies that looked sluggish over the next few days fed to him....game over. That really pissed me off because I worked so hard because he was only a featherless chick that had fallen from a nest during a storm.

Have been wary of sprays (aerosol kinds) ever since.

Ken