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Quote: Just to be clear, this medication is given orally, and it's usually given for 4-5 days.
-Kathy
Hi @Zohaib , hope I didn't confuse you or anyone else... your English is quite good, but I'm sure it's difficult when we rattle this stuff off, and I write such long posts...
I know you said earlier to Kathy that you were taking the water container which had medicine in it OUT of the pen. That's the correct thing to do -- for sure, do not try to use this medicine in their water supply.
What I meant (and what I think you mean) is that you give the correct amount of the Enrocin into each individual bird's throat either once per day or twice per day, for 4 to 5 days, depending on how much is given in each dose.
For the smaller chicks, because it is so hard to measure very small amounts, I make the diluted medicine with distilled water, then give that.
So if the chick is getting dosed twice a day at the 10 mg per kg rate, and the chick only weighs 100 grams (or 0.1 kg), it only needs 1 mg of medicine, which is almost impossible to measure (it would be 0.01 ml) in a 1 ml syringe, if we are using the 10% version, which is 100 mg per ml.
But if we dilute the enrocin using distilled water to make it only 1%, now 10 mg per ml, we can give the chick 0.1 ml which is easy to measure using our 1 ml syringe.
Yes, 4 to 5 days as Kathy said. Hope this helps! And hoping the chicks are better very soon!
GP
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