Saturday, December 5, 2009

CHRONIC LOFT SICKNESS

Do you have chronic sickness in your loft even while using CTL Supplement?
Your problem may be mechanical. By mechanical we mean self inflicted, unwitting errors occurring around the loft.

There are some fanciers who have ongoing loft problems and consequent sickness.
This biggest problem is poor ventilation. Some lofts are so "tight" that fresh air can't move around in the loft. Thus the birds are adversely affected by the protein from their own feather bloom and droppings. The proteins and dust must be vented away from the birds.

When I was a kid, my birds were keep year round in an open wire aviary. They could get under board covers to keep the rain and snow off, but the entire aviary was open. The only problems I had back then was the chunky, visible throat canker caused by cheap feed, (since I didn't have the money to purchase the better feed and didn't know any better).

When I became a teenage I turned a wooden shed, (which was a three horse stall), into a loft. It was shut up pretty tight. (not knowing any better). All of my birds got sick within a few weeks and all died. This happened due to my youthful ignorance. I learned a hard lesson.

Sadly, When talking to fanciers who obviously have these self made issues, they won't address the problem. They continue to throw anti-biotics at the birds. All they need to do is to properly ventilate the loft.

"Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise"

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