Rice Water.

[Guest LBuddle]

Speaking to a friend he was saying that if you have birds with loose/runny droppings a good thing to tighten them up is the following:-

Boil rice (enough for a meal!), then collect the water it was boiled in and add it to 1 or 2 litres of tap water, then give it to the birds for a few days and this should tighten up the droppings!!!

Have any of you tried this??

Why Rice??.

[greenlands]

Never tried it mate but I've read about it before.

[sammy]

get them drunk that not how they make SAKI

[Tony C]

Possibly the starch from the rice helps bind their droppings. Arrowroot pulped up and boiled then added to the drinker is another old remedy.

[john@formula 1 lofts]

I would agree it will be the high level of starch that will bind them up

[billt]

I would agree it will be the high level of starch that will bind them up

Yeh thats why the Chinese always have that funny expression on their faces :lol:

[wilkins]

boil pearl barley very good for the birds