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From: mm@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Mike Mahler)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cockatiel feather picking
Message-ID: <1920@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 14:32:49 GMT
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In article <26BF7BE7.1576@intercon.com>, ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry) writes:
> In article <1910@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> mm@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Mike Mahler) writes:

> >>  Use the sprays found in most bird shops.
> 
> >	Use what your VET reccomends!
> 
> Use Rich Health (makers of Vionate) Scalex Mite and Lice Spray for Birds.

 	Use what your VET reccomends!

> >	I've had great results with 1/2 tsp Nekton-BIO mixed 
> >	with the daily feed and shaken (not stirred 8-).
> 
> As for 1/2 tsp of Nekton BIO, that is far too much, especially for 
> one worried about toxicity.
	
	FAR too much?  This is what the directions and
	my avian vet reccomended.  Do you have contradictory 
	information?

	(By the way, the scoop in Nekton-BIO is very close to
	1/2 tsp.)


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