Recent content by ellend

What heater base works with a plastic waterer? I bought a beater base from Stromerg, but have no metal font. Reviews on them are terrible...handles breaking when new, rust inside by 1 year... has anyone tried using one of these bases with a plastic waterer?

Check out SweeterHeater online. Safer than heat bulb, won't burn bird or start a fire. Plug it into a Thermocube so it doesn't turn on until under 40 degrees F., & turns off above 40.

AWFUL!!! kept coming apart, water soaking me!

The balls (or other floating things) depend on wind to keep them moving so ice doesn't solidify. Doesn't work in severe temp.

VETRYCIN, not Verizon! (Spell checker)

Orally, not "oral injection." Oral injection would mean a needle & syringe, with the medication injected into the tissues of the mouth. (Just clarifying for future readers.)

Skip neomycin...can kill birds. Use bacitracin ointment. Verizon is very good. Vetwrap doesn't require tape; sticks to itself. Human-marketed name is Coban.

For future reference--chlorhexidine is hibiclens. Don't use it. Use 1/2 strength hydrogen peroxide or iodine.

This is a respiratory disease. I've never had any luck treating it...they go on & on, getting slowly worse. I won't put another one through it again, if initial treatment doesn't work.

Surgical R.N. here: hibiclens is NOT to be used on any open wound. INTACT skin only. You can use hydrogen peroxide diluted 50% with water. (I would use iodine on on intact chicken skin, not hibiclens...hibiclens transcutaneous absorbtion can be toxic, & birds are fragile.) I'm surprised...

Later you can use the Coloplast for things like shading tender plants, shading the small fishpond on hot days...lots of uses. Just remember to save appropriately sized pieces for next winter...the climate is changing.

I'm in Ohio, by Lake Erie. Lots of blowing lake-effect snow. I use coroplast pieces, available cut to my specifications from a local plastics place. It's reasonable in cost, very lightweight, but rigid, and easy to store. I get the translucent, which lets a good amount of brightness through...

Nah--most of us let ours out onto our lawns...he'd crow.