is bottle brush safe for finches?
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Pete Sara
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yes they can, it should be no problem with the flowers or the leaves, but if you don't want them to eat it distract them with some grass......or just use gum tree branches....i have to types of bottle brush in my aviaries growing and have no probs with any one eating it.......pete
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jusdeb
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Has never hurt mine actually keeps them busy for hours , and they like to hide in it ( security I guess )
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
David Brent
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BENSONSAN
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dude gone over this before with you.....they wont eat it anyway but you may get ants on the flowers and i have seen finches eat black ants..which by the way host tapeworm so just keep flowers out if they have ants on them ok.
ben
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Thats the drawback with forums / chat rooms etc. theres no body language its all black and white / zeros and ones often things that are harmless are misconstrued or seem harsh or abrupt ...
I often look back on posts and find I have to edit them coz they are a bit abrasive
I often look back on posts and find I have to edit them coz they are a bit abrasive
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
David Brent
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E Orix
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Bensonsan.
Are ants one of the hostes for Tape Worm?
Personally I feel people worry too much about worms effecting all birds.
I would be a little careful if I lived in a wet climate I guess.
But don't you think worrying about the possibility of Tape Worm infestation from ants that are on Bottle Brush a little extreme.
If you were worried about that then you would not want to Brush out your aviaries,not have open aviaries. dose your birds every 40 days year in year out.
I have had discussions for years over the fors and against of worming birds and I am still not convinced that they are as big a threat as people make out.
Unless you check the droppings through a microscope then how do you know your birds are infected.
You can over sanitise your birds.One area I will agree on is if you over crowd your aviaries you Will get problems either infestation or health problems.
Sadly few are good enough to crop dose the birds, any other way is so hit or miss that maybe its not worth doing.
I may be out of touch or just an old f..t but I run upward of 300+ finches,my losses are very few and my medical cupboard is bare apart from a bottle of Scatt
to counter Air Sack Mite and a bottle of Sulpha D I can add to the water for new aquisitions while they are in isolation under observation.
I am not saying don't medicate,that is up to the individual, what I am saying is that one can be over careful and do we really need to medicate because thats what other people say.
Are ants one of the hostes for Tape Worm?
Personally I feel people worry too much about worms effecting all birds.
I would be a little careful if I lived in a wet climate I guess.
But don't you think worrying about the possibility of Tape Worm infestation from ants that are on Bottle Brush a little extreme.
If you were worried about that then you would not want to Brush out your aviaries,not have open aviaries. dose your birds every 40 days year in year out.
I have had discussions for years over the fors and against of worming birds and I am still not convinced that they are as big a threat as people make out.
Unless you check the droppings through a microscope then how do you know your birds are infected.
You can over sanitise your birds.One area I will agree on is if you over crowd your aviaries you Will get problems either infestation or health problems.
Sadly few are good enough to crop dose the birds, any other way is so hit or miss that maybe its not worth doing.
I may be out of touch or just an old f..t but I run upward of 300+ finches,my losses are very few and my medical cupboard is bare apart from a bottle of Scatt
to counter Air Sack Mite and a bottle of Sulpha D I can add to the water for new aquisitions while they are in isolation under observation.
I am not saying don't medicate,that is up to the individual, what I am saying is that one can be over careful and do we really need to medicate because thats what other people say.
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BENSONSAN
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Yea Eorix i totally agree look i would only worry if the flower was covered in them. Once again i sound over the top when i didnt realy mean to. But yea they definatly host tapeworm also read about it on one of marcus pollards articles and he warned of the same thing.
I believe in hardiness and im not sterile at all with my birds they all have tea tree also. But hey i thought i would add it in. I worm my dog also when i know hes accidentally inhalled black ants hehe.
Ben
I believe in hardiness and im not sterile at all with my birds they all have tea tree also. But hey i thought i would add it in. I worm my dog also when i know hes accidentally inhalled black ants hehe.
Ben