Buying Baytril - Buyer Beware

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Garden Peas said:
Well ingesting birds with current antibiotics in them creates the risk for the human developing resistant bacteria. But ingesting birds that have previously been fed antibiotics, depending upon how the antibiotics were used, poses the possibility of ingesting or being contaminated with bacteria which have already developed resistance while the bird was getting the antibiotics.

I think this latter route of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria was the primary reason that baytril was banned for poultry. But I am still somewhat baffled as to why it's okay to treat food animals with it. I'm thinking it's more a money issue...
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In other words, the bird, bagged in the refrigerator case could have antibiotic-resistant bacteria all over it -- which is probably more dangerous than having trace amounts of antibiotic in the flesh of the bird.
 
Garden Peas said:
Well ingesting birds with current antibiotics in them creates the risk for the human developing resistant bacteria.  But ingesting birds that have previously been fed antibiotics, depending upon how the antibiotics were used, poses the possibility of ingesting or being contaminated with bacteria which have already developed resistance while the bird was getting the antibiotics. 

I think this latter route of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria was the primary reason that baytril was banned for poultry.  But I am still somewhat baffled as to why it's okay to treat food animals with it.  I'm thinking it's more a money issue...
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There is growing concern in the various industries.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/overview.html
 
I just paid $30 for one bird for a small injectable of Baytril. Knowing that it was the right dosage for her was WORTH every penny.
 
We get ours from a vet in Turkey where baytril isnt banned on poultry. I love my birds too much to just off them when they get sick. It is my nuclear blast when they look like they are on the way out. Of my 150 birds this rule only applies to my 10 I am bonded with who arnt used for meat consumption. The reason we have antibiotic problems is directly pointed at the Industrialization & holocaust of poultry.
 
nomoneycanrepla said:
I just paid $30 for one bird for a small injectable of Baytril. Knowing that it was the right dosage for her was WORTH every penny.
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Wow, $30 for one shot? Call your vet and ask how much your bird weighed and how many mg they gave it. Pretty sure the dose will come out to 4.54 to 9.1 mg per pound.

-Kathy
 
Two of my chickens were attacked by a dog last weekend and being a newbie chicken raiser, I sought help from my exotic pet vet. One chicken had three puncture wounds he had to see up, and the other had one. He prescribed 2ml of Baytril liquid per 1 liter of water, provided until the chickens started acting normally. $27.45 for 10ml. Advised us to not eat the eggs for two weeks after the last day of medicated water. Hope that helps!
 

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