Preparing For Breeding With Bleaching OCEMYCINE

It should start 8 weeks before the first egg that can be estimated in late March if it is the couplings around 15 March.

This is the period most suitable when using natural light whose duration is clearly increasing in light of the season.

This is the method I use but others can advance these dates by doing artificial lighting in their local programmed to gradually increase the length of day and have thus, nesting in February or even January.


Before describing my preparation program I have a point about how to prepare OCEMYCINE.

OCEMYCINE is sold in bottles of 12 grams or 3 grams.

3g vial: Dissolve the contents in 250 ml (1 / 4 liter) of water. (Solution 1)
Bottle of 12 g: Dissolve the contents in 1000 ml (1 liter) of water. (Solution 2)


The resulting solution (1 or 2) used at a dose of 5 ml (1 teaspoon) per 250 ml (1 / 4 liters) of drinking water to be renewed every day to the birds.

The resulting solution is then given to the refrigerator after each use. This solution will keep all its properties for a month by holding it in the fridge.

My preparation for reproduction

The laboratory VIRBAC OCE indicates that the treatment of reproductive Océmycine to be lavished for a month before mating.

For my part I always found that this treatment was too long for an antibiotic especially for a bird that weighs 20 to 25g. No human, to my knowledge, is treated with antibiotics for a long period.

So I decided to make this money on two (2) weeks each spaced two weeks.

1st week: Océmycine daily for 7 days
2nd week: A mixture of drinking water Oceproven (probiotic) + vitamin complex for 7 days (or Omnivit Nekton S)
3rd week: Pure Water
4th week: Océmycine daily for 7 days
5th week: A mixture of drinking water Oceproven (probiotic) + Vitamin E + Calcium (Calci-lux or calcivet), every day.
6th week: A mixture in the drinking water of vitamin E + Calcium (Calci-lux or calcivet), every day.
7th week: Same as the sixth week
8th week: Same as the sixth week.


Therefore, considering the date of March 15 for mating, the program of preparation shall be initiated between 15 and 18 January.

Also note that from the fifth week, the mash will be served twice a week.

Article by Georges

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