You will here some breeders in Australia start talking now about Doxy or Tetra... But what are they and why are they using them.

 

Doxycycline - Wikipedia

 

Tetracycline - Wikipedia

 

Preventitive medication is widely used by many high standard breeders in Austalia.

Amprolium is a coccidiostat and is used after rain ito try to prevent the Coccidia parasites which causes Coccidiosis.

 

Praziquantel and Oxfendazole are used to kill Flat worms and Round worms and is ound in Worming Medication.

 

Tetracycline is a broad Spectrium Antibiotic that is used against Bacteria infections.

Doxycycline is a dirivative of the Tetracycline Group of antibiotics and is also used to fight infection.

 

The Tetracycline Group of Antibiotics were developed primarily for the use in people, but have been used in Birds by leading manufacturer.

Over use of both Doxy and Tetra for long periods, years, can cause a build up of resistance in the Bacteria that they are trying to control.

 

With any use of medication there is a need for the understanding of the drug, the good and bad points and the required doses.

 

Some breeders find that when they buy birds from aviaries that have a high routine of preventitive medication that the birds don't last long as they have grown a need for the continuation of that routine for their well being.

Edited March 6, 200916 yr by Daz

Some breeders find that when they buy birds from aviaries that have a high routine of preventitive medication that the birds don't last long as they have grown a need for the continuation of that routine for their well being.

 

I have had this experience when some birds from a particular breeder just won't survive in my aviary. Since those experiences I have tried to eradicate Megabacteria with 2 rounds of Fungilin at the end of last year, 2 preventative courses of Carlox prior to that and now just recently the Doxy treatment. Cross fingers my flock is free of any nasties.

 

I'm afraid to turn into an overmedicator myself so from now on my birds will get apple cider, iodine and calcivet in the water and little else.

Renee, Gary put me straight last year in Busselton. He told me to throw out what I what doing and KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. So I did. I through out all the medications and put the birds back on clean seed and water with good vegitables. Yes I lost a few birds. but I did beeed more chicks. In fact I breed 151 chicks from 20 breeding cages in 9 months compaired to 132 birds in 20 breed cabinets in 12 months. The flock has never been stronger and has been winning on the bench.

 

The coin a phase from KISS.... he sure knew something.....

Renee, Gary put me straight last year in Busselton. He told me to throw out what I what doing and KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. So I did. I through out all the medications and put the birds back on clean seed and water with good vegitables. Yes I lost a few birds. but I did beeed more chicks. In fact I breed 151 chicks from 20 breeding cages in 9 months compaired to 132 birds in 20 breed cabinets in 12 months. The flock has never been stronger and has been winning on the bench.

 

The coin a phase from KISS.... he sure knew something.....

 

Yes I agree, in principal, that is once you've got a healthy flock.

 

The problem was that this time last year I brought in birds and put them straight into the breeding cabinets without doing the 1 month quarentine. These birds had megabacteria, so in effect I've been trying to eradicate that and deal with the pooey bums, which touch wood is now behind me.

 

Over the next month I am bringing in 5 Clearwings and 4 Normals from different aviaries. They will get a 7 day Fungilin treatment followed by probiotics and doxy. I'm just not taking any more risks.

A very good reason way we quarrentine birds...

I do the KISS too

Gary put me straight last year in Busselton. He told me to throw out what I what doing and KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. So I did.

 

I use the kiss method also but its always been my way...just like I try to keep meds for myself to an absolute minimum, so do I for the birds.............

 

 

I wonder of Gary knows his KISS is spreading

I found that a sprinkling of crushed cloves in their water daily for 8 weeks will eliminate quite a few nasties naturally. It is inexpensive and natural. Crushed cloves contain oil of cloves called eugenol which is a powerful antiseptic, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial and the budgies seem to like it.

 

I put 1/4 teaspoon (a pinch of cloves) in a litre of water. I don't know what the long term effects are so I wouldn't do it all the time, but they love bathing in water laced with it too, in a shallow dish.

 

Many medicines come from nature originally anyhow. Food is medicine. Aspirin originated from willowbark, penicillin is an extract from a bread mould, oil of cloves was and still is used in dentistry as a component of some tooth filling materials for it's antiseptic and toothache relieving properties. It may have alternate uses for budgies treating avian gastric yeast, who knows. I find it seems to reduce disease in my breeding birds, but I don't have the resources to be able to research it properly, and I don't know the long term effects of daily consumption. It seems to be okay for 8 weeks. I don't know what the long term effects are beyond that, and I don't see the need to subject them to it for any longer anyhow.

 

The other thing they seem to like when they are sick is the leaves from teatrees and eucalyptus.

(Australian native trees for australian native birds.)

 

(Please note that both teatree oil and eucalyptus from a bottle is toxic because it is not in it's natural form - it has to be from leaves off a tree for the budgies, it is only in the leaves from the trees that the natural oils are in full balance as nature intended, same goes for human foods and supplements.)