The Birb King
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Ok well I'm just gonna keep using the bowls since nothing is proven. I'm fine, my birds are fine, and it doesn't make much sense anyway for them to put toxic stuff in a bowl used for animal feed.
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The risk isn't them adding anything, its the existing lead content in recycled rubber and not knowing the source of the rubber used in some of the bowls.Ok well I'm just gonna keep using the bowls since nothing is proven. I'm fine, my birds are fine, and it doesn't make much sense anyway for them to put toxic stuff in a bowl used for animal feed.
and it doesn't make much sense anyway for them to put toxic stuff in a bowl used for animal feed.
No promises, but I'll reach out to some of my friends at a local university and see how many favours I can call in.I agree that there needs to be independent and scientific testing of a wide sample of these bowls.
Fortex is the brand of mine, and it is made in USA. How would it compare against a Chinese made bowl?
I do not have the resources to purchase a variety of bowls and test them all accurately for lead content.
If anyone knows someone at a university lab that wants to take on the project, that might be the best solution.
Jeeze, you are awfully sensitive. Didn't you notice the in my 'nomination' comment?No need to be a &%$*.
I'll stand by my original reply to you.Jeeze, you are awfully sensitive. Didn't you notice the in my 'nomination' comment?
It was meant as a bit of humor. I see over sixty posts - a number of which appear to be people taking your first warning to heart.
My wife is always 'announcing' stuff she reads on FB or some such. Invariably, when I ask "Have you verified that information," the answer is "no."
Then, about half or more of the time, a bit of research confirms or debunks whatever initial conclusion her FB or CHAT room declaration may have been.
If you think about it for a while, these black bowls have been around for - over fifty years or more. Likely millions sold just this year. Given the shorter life spans of many of the farm animals treated to feed and water in such bowls and the symptoms of lead poisoning in the young, It sure would seem that it would have been more likely that your grandfather discovered lead in these bowls than some Internet Influence'r you found in 2024.
That you have tried to delete your post or edit it is admirable, as is your posting your more recent testing results - after all absent replication, there is no value in the conclusion.
That you have learned, and called our attention to the fact that retracting a post is far more difficult than is posting a post, may prove helpful to others considering sharing some click bait they got caught up in.
I doubt I'm actually such a "&%$*." But, one often never knows how he is perceived unless he can read his obituary.
Keep a sense of humor, it helps.
True, but my rubber buckets grow a lot of algae, and I don't know if that would grow if the water was toxic.The risk isn't them adding anything, its the existing lead content in recycled rubber and not knowing the source of the rubber used in some of the bowls.
Apparently some do and help remove itTrue, but my rubber buckets grow a lot of algae, and I don't know if that would grow if the water was toxic.
Huh, that's pretty cool on its own!Apparently some do and help remove it
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211926421002228
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