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hi...could anyone tell me there methods of mixing up fresh garlic please...i started useing it yesterday on my young birds..i was to cut 4 cloves up..put them in a plastic container ..pour 1 pint of boiling water over them..leave 1 night ..then add 6 pints of fresh water in the morning which i did..i went to let them out this morning and it wasnt touched   ...i noticed last night when i felt there crops they was solid like they havent had a drink..poor little sods...its a wonder they flew this morning? can you help....thanks mark....

Hi I do exactly the same as you hoever I put about an inch of the garlic mix into the drinker and then top up with fresh water, I assume my mix would be 12 or 15 fresh water to one part Garlic Mix.

cheers paul..i thought i was doing it wrong by the strong smell of it...most problet burnt there throats...thanks..mark..

My methods is to place cloves/sliced/in the net immerse in water carrier,and top up each evening,leaving it stand overnight,tastecontent of garlic grows stronger on a daily basis,its an accquired taste then,which they wont have any bother with,leave cloves in for a fortnight,and then change.

I hven't got time for all that stuff.  I like to keep things simple.  I chuck a couple of sliced up cloves in the drinker once a week.  Never had a problem with them drinking the water.  It's just a cse of them getting used to the taste.

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hi...could anyone tell me there methods of mixing up fresh garlic please...i started useing it yesterday on my young birds..i was to cut 4 cloves up..put them in a plastic container ..pour 1 pint of boiling water over them..leave 1 night ..then add 6 pints of fresh water in the morning which i did..i went to let them out this morning and it wasnt touched   ...i noticed last night when i felt there crops they was solid like they havent had a drink..poor little sods...its a wonder they flew this morning? can you help....thanks mark....

The major point about using garlic is that it is not to be heat treated in any way - you destroy one of the most important active ingredients, allicin, if you do that. ALSO you don't get allicin until you bruise the bulb / clove in some way (crush, cut etc) placing a clove or a bulb in water just rots the plant, nothing more.

I give it freshly peeled and crushed into the drinker, a 20/30g bulb to 2 litres of water. I will sometimes leave it for one overnight, but it is reckoned that allicin is fully broken down to its other 'less powerful' forms within the first day, so if you are bottling it up for days at a time, maybe not getting the best from it.  

thanks for the coments lads....cheers ib very interesting mate...all the best lads...mark..

hy mark just cut 4 to 8 cloves up put them in a old glass bottle of pop then fill with cold water  not hot cause its no good for the garlic  then leave in fridge a couple of days and  add 2 egg cup fulls to 3 litres of water and you wil find its not to strong just right all the best

We crush the cloves and add to 6 litre container of cold water, leave over night and then we sieve it into a jug and add to drinkers, we then put the fibre that is left into the bath

thanks again lads....

i just crush two cloves into a 2litre drinker and fill up with fresh water.

cheers ronnie...on the case now lol...better than watching the england game lol...