Tap water or fresh water?

[paullock]

Someone told me that if you use tap water when giving powdered medicines to pigeons that the clorine in the water nutralizes it and becomes useless, is this true? should I be using fresh water ie rain water or bottled.

 

Kind Regards

Paullock.

[Guest shadow]

stand tap water overnight and it should be ok

[just ask me]

its actally the calcuim that they add to the water that does the damage that why u should take grit away too

[Roland]

stand tap water overnight and it should be ok

 

Exactly... it kills bateria like it is supposed to ... and like Bleach NOTHING should raly be mixed with it medicence wise.

 

Leave a lid over but allow air to flow over. aPreferable about an inch all around so no creepy crawlies etc. fall in.

 

 

[bluey]

Medcation treatments are best mixed with cooled boiled water. Any impurities in the water that may affect additives have been killed/neutralised.

[lofty]

To be on the safe side if using tetracyclines -terramicin, Doxycicline etc you should use distilled water  if you live in a hard water (bottled water is 'hard') area otherwise the drug will bind to the calcium present and then can't be absorbed by the birds

with most other drugs boiling and cooling (to remove chlorine and chloramine) is OK

as they are not affected by calcium.

Most water authorities use chloramine now as it is more stable than chlorine so standing overnight may not clear it.

Lofty

[jimmy white]

Someone told me that if you use tap water when giving powdered medicines to pigeons that the clorine in the water nutralizes it and becomes useless, is this true? should I be using fresh water ie rain water or bottled.

 

Kind Regards

Paullock.

 

i think it depends on what" medicines" , but i have used ordinary tap water for many years , with no ill effects