Perhaps, it is contamination in the sugar. Pure sucrose should not react
with CS at all. It must have a few ppm of some type of salt in it.
Thinking about the old method of putting a silver dollar into milk to
make it keep longer, I am thinking of using pure sugar water, but
putting 3 or 4 feet of 14 gauge silver wire into the feeder instead.
That just might keep it from fermenting, yet not put a significant
amount of silver into the nectar.
You know they make socks and washing machines with silver in them. I
wonder if silver plating the inside of these feeders might be a good
idea to prevent the fermentation of the nectar.
Marshall
On 3/22/2011 8:19 AM, Ode Coyote wrote:
Any time you contaminate CS you likely make photo-reactive compounds.
Hummingbirds also eat bugs and seeds..then hang out at the energy bar.
ode
At 11:29 AM 3/21/2011 -0400, you wrote:
We put up a humming bird feeder last week. Normally you have to
change the sugar water in it every couple of days because it will
ferment. I figured that if I used colloidal silver to make the sugar
water, it should not ferment. I was surprised that shortly after
making the nectar it turned somewhat dark, like there was aggregation
of the silver. However, even after 5 days, it is still in suspension,
so I am somewhat confused. Also I am concerned that it might cause
problems for the humming bird, if it kills the bacteria necessary for
digestion. I think others have given CS to their birds without any
problem, but since a hummingbird eats nectar almost exclusively,
their digestion might be more like a honeybee than most birds.
Any comments?
Marshall
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