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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cockatiel feather picking
Message-ID: <26C1F914.2899@intercon.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 00:00:20 GMT
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In article <1920@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> mm@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Mike Mahler) writes:

> 	Use what your VET reccomends!

Would be good advice except that in many cases a VET may not know best what
to recommend.  First, you must find an AVIAN vet, keeping in mind, of
course that many who call themselves avian vets are not in the least.
You can't even count on those registered with the Avian Veterinary Association,
since their only criteria for membership is that you are a vet.  So, "use
what your vet recommends" may simply be a knee jerk response that might not
be the case.

>> 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?

Yes, I have contradictory information.  *MY* avian vet says less than 1/8
of a teaspoon when put in the food.  It doesn't seem logical for someone
worried about toxicity from feeding nekton S wouldn't be similarly worried
about bio.  In any case, the Nekton rep at the AFA convention told me
today that 1/8 of a teaspoon is plenty for one bird, and more would be
a waste.

Mikki Barry
Natural Intelligence Aviaries