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is truer than vets or doctors know, because modern research has revealed that antibiotics are natural regulatory chemicals used by microorganisms for day to day functions. Since they use antibiotics (e.g. penicillin) regularly as needed, they also have other chemicals to turn these chemicals off. That is, immunity to most antibiotics existed long before the use of these drugs on people or animals. So drug resistance is both rapid and inevitable. Hence the sound advice to people to avoid overuse of antibiotics. This advice is even more sound when applied to budgies. Budgies don’t have the ability to recover from diseases to the extent that people do: Live Fast, Die Young is their evolutionary strategy. So we need to conserve


antibiotics in case of an emergency. The budgie guys that use the “Chicken System” also use a lot of drugs: • lots of regular use of antibiotics • use of products (e.g. Emtryl) to control canker


• coccidiostats to control coccidiosis • sulphur drugs Plus probiotics, Vitamin D and calcium supplements etc. These drugs are mostly used as preventative measures. Even though it sort of works in this system, this is, as previously mentioned, considered disastrous by veterinarians, doctors and scientists.


Since budgies have a weak immune system when out of direct sunlight, the use of a high level of antibiotics etc. is


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