2 Responses to “How much Colloidal Silver would you give a Rainbow Lorikeet as a doage to maintain health and as a remedy?”

1. in a handbasket ™ on August 11th, 2011 12:49 pm

   I would not recommend using it at all. Its toxic. You are better off feeding the bird an excellent diet and seeing an avian vet if you have health concerns.
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2. humor4fms on August 11th, 2011 1:21 pm

   None, as an everyday remedy! It has been proven that it can build up a toxicity in the proventricula over a time period and ruin the gram pos bacteria that is necessary for digesting the food.

   Now this is not to say if your bird gets sick, this remedy could not be used as a form of treatment. A holistic form of treatment is better then destroying all normal bacteria growth to start with, which is what any antibotics do. You would also have to go by the weight of the bird to figure out a rough estimate of the colloidal silver per mg of water and make sure the bird gets a certain amount of it to do it any good as per treatment.

   I have always been more for the approach of what will do less harm to the biological system ie, shutting down the whole digestive tract and starting the whole system over, which takes weeks to restart and your bird goes through so much stress and feels like crap during that time.

   If you feed your bird a healthy diet and maintain the correct husbandry(proper precautions to prevent contracting diseases) from pet stores, breeders, and other outside contacts, you shouldn’t need to use any source like this or meds to prevent such incidents. But I also see no problem with keeping this on hand in case you should need it later down the road. Of course you’d need to keep a proper weight of your bird, and then it would be 1ml to 100mls. Hope this helped you.
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   28+ years of breeding, avian certified, avian behavioral specialist, 180+ pairs of birds, rescue, & a sense of humor LOL

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