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DetlefK

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11. The method is touted as simple, not as healthy.

Reply to mac56 (Reply #10)

Thu May 23, 2013, 09:28 AM

May 2013

You forget the detergent-method. Rubbing the birds with metallic stuff might be a quick method and better for the feathers than washing the bird, but will it kill the bird in the long term? Will the incorporated metal have negative effects on organism and offspring?
That's still unanswered.

Mercury-salts were successfully taken as medicine to cure STDs, but for some reason that practice was phased out.

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