Re: Problems with hen's foot

From: Rose (servicelady_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:01:00 -0700

What is white spirit?
Roz

" Jill." <news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:42283687$0$576$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> Adrian Brentnall wrote:
>> HI Nuele
>>
>> Thanks for the comments
>>
>> <big snip - thread was getting a bit l o n g <g>>
>>
>> We started with the white spirit today (hens weren't very impressed -
>> but then, it was snowing, on & off <g>)
>>
>> OK - I'll follow your advice, give the white spirit a couple of days
>> to do its work and then make a start with the vaseline.
>
> Go with Nuele's advice -- we have only had the odd case mostly on birds
> brought in so went through the motions of throwing it all at it :~)
> If you use the white spirit its in conjunction with vaseline -- not one
> then
> the other
> Dip the legs in white spirit, dry and smear with vaseline
> But as Nuele has positive results with vaseline only - that is much
> simpler -- it does get messy and the chemists may wonder what you are
> doing
> with all the large pots of vaseline you go through
> It can take a while to get the scales back to normal
>
> --
>
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> Jill Bowis
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