You make a very good point. If oral antibiotics such as penicillin can be given to cows, then CS should not hurt them. But if it can't then CS would likely be a problem as well. The research has already been done, we just need to apply it to CS.
Does anyone know if oral penicillin can be given to cows are not? Marshall sol wrote: > I only know about rabbits, not the true chambered stomach ruminants > like cattle. In rabbits there is a large cecum where the fermentation > takes place, and the contents are said to be very highly liquid, > (probably the main part of bunny water intake goes into the cecum) which > may be why they are so vulnerable to oral antibiotics and likely would > have problems with CS as well. In the highly liquid contents of the > cecum, CS could easily kill the fermentation bacteria. > There are few antibiotics that are safe for rabbits orally. It isn't > CS alone one has to be careful with. The penicillins for example are > never administered orally to rabbits, only by injection. Rabbit gut > bacteria are very delicately balanced, and giving large doses of CS as > one can to a cat or dog could easily be fatal. Quickly, too. You don't > have time to correct mistakes with bunnies. > Probably a large part of the reason cattle and probably sheep, goats, > and horses are unlikely to suffer from this as easily as rabbits is > sheer size. > I limit CS in my dwarf house bun's water to 1/2 tsp of 10ppm per about > 14 oz water: they have access to this all day, but in their habitats > overnight they get plain distilled water. Been doing this for well over > a year, with no problems. In fact the reason they get this is because > one little guy tends to get the urine dribbles if I stop adding the CS > to the day water bowl. > paula > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
