Antibiotics for chickens - suggestions?

Joanne Conner said:

Trying to figure out where to get Baytril. I have been searching to no avail.

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Try this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baytril-enrofloxacin-sources.959119/

If you need some quickly, your best bet is to take your sick bird to a vet that will prescribe it. What's wrong with your bird?

casportpony said:

Try this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baytril-enrofloxacin-sources.959119/

If you need some quickly, your best bet is to take your sick bird to a vet that will prescribe it. What's wrong with your bird?

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Have 31 chickens, clean coops, clean water daily, one by one they get a respiratory infection. I have been using Tylan with some success, nutridrench, Vet-Rx, electrolytes. Many people I talk to have the same problem. Called the vet but they don't do chickens but told me lots of people have called about this problem.

People keep telling me they think this hot humid damp weather. My pens all get sun and cover, coops clean, scrub every bowl/waterer daily with dip in Clorox water and rinsed. Don't let anyone in my pens ever other than us. I try to be cautious.

Joanne Conner said:

People keep telling me they think this hot humid damp weather. My pens all get sun and cover, coops clean, scrub every bowl/waterer daily with dip in Clorox water and rinsed. Don't let anyone in my pens ever other than us. I try to be cautious.

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I also have tried Denaguard to do the whole flock and then treat the sickies individually.

Does the Denagard work at all?

sunbear1224 said:

I need to purchase an antibiotic for my chicken first aid kit but seeing there are so many products out there, does anyone have a good suggestion of what is best to have on hand?
Thanks!!

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Duramycin. It is labeled for cattle and swine, but my vet uses it off-label for poultry and other animals as well. It is a broad spectrum antibiotic (oxytetracycline) and is well tolerated in chickens.

Available at Tractor Supply

Tarashea said:

Duramycin. It is labeled for cattle and swine, but my vet uses it off-label for poultry and other animals as well. It is a broad spectrum antibiotic (oxytetracycline) and is well tolerated in chickens.

Available at Tractor Supply

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1. Whats the dose Per weight - lb - of chicken.
2. How to give Injection. Brest or Neck area.
3. How long treatment. Unknown.
4. Trash Eggs 30 days. Period do not feed back to chickens.

: UPDATE : LOTS of Information, Chicken Parent Use Discretion... Use @ own Risk,That being said Read On...

: Uses diabetic syringes with 29-gauge needle. Injectedin Neck
:: Just what I've found on Here, If that Post remembers right, for a five to six pound bird, injection-able dose is 1 CC in the breast muscle for three days.

:: -- "https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...cycline-or-oxytetracycline-injections.713434/"

casportpony said:

Try this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baytril-enrofloxacin-sources.959119/

If you need some quickly, your best bet is to take your sick bird to a vet that will prescribe it. What's wrong with your bird?

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This link is such a great resource! Thank you!