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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?

when showing the show birds we would put in the water i just can;t remember now lol but water would turn purple in the bath water

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.

I used these many years ago, they were good at the time. But other products took over.

Diamond Dave wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:11 am Does anyone use Garlic in the bath water.....?

I'm afraid I'm lazy lol so use Nutrimin with Garlic in it, I only use it in their water, I personally don't put anything in their bath water.

Diamond Dave wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:14 pm 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?

Ask away Dave I don't mind

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

Trev wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:05 pm

Diamond Dave wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:11 am Does anyone use Garlic in the bath water.....?

I'm afraid I'm lazy lol so use Nutrimin with Garlic in it, I only use it in their water, I personally don't put anything in their bath water.

I looked at that Trev before I changed back to ACV I just couldn’t understand how the garlic juice worked as it’s a very reasonable priced product
It says garlic juice but I couldn’t understand how that works price wise as you don’t get loads of juice from a bulb
Is there other garlic additives in it do you know like a flavouring ?

MIL wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 7:10 am [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.

When birds bathe one of the first things they invariably do is have a drink (even if there's ample access to a drinker in the loft).

Vinegar never hurt our performances put it that way.

Numerous RPRA Award winners were brought up bathing in vinegar every week

just had a chat with show fancier it was potassium permanganate we used they now use u-200