Oxytetracyline and Tetracycline Powder Doses

[ShannaES]

40 mg/kg rings a bell, but I am not positive. Let me do some math.

I just put a call into the other vet in the office and I'm hoping for an answer.

 

[ShannaES]

@ShannaES, do you have a gram scale?

Yes!

 

[casportpony]

Package weighs 100 grams and has 10 grams oxytetracycline.
10 ÷ 100 = 0.055, which means it's 10% oxytetracycline, 90% filler
One gram = 100mg
One teaspoon = 300 grams
One teaspoon weighs about 3 grams which = 100mg x 5 teaspoons = 825 mg
The 800 mg dose for one gallon = 2 & 3/4 teaspoons

 

[casportpony]

Interesting link - http://www.elephantcare.org/Drugs/oxytetra.htm

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony
Have I told you lately how much brain work that you have saved me?
Thank You again!

Scott

You're welcome!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

 
You're welcome!

-Kathy

Yes!  Great resource for all of us.  Could you add Tylan powder too?

Tylan powder is a litte trickier... The mfg says the dose is 50 mg per pound per chicken per day, so one would have to have a rough idea of how much water was being consumed. Chicks drink something like 18% of their weight per day, laying hens 13 ish percent, and non laying adults drink about 5%. So without doing a bunch of math, I'm gonna guess that the dose is 1-4 teaspoons per gallon per day.

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

Yes! Great resource for all of us. Could you add Tylan powder too?

I did some looking around, it is one teaspoon per gallon of water. Just my luck when I was looking for it a couple of weeks ago I stopped at the first post that said per five gallons, no wonder I am still having problems.

 

[casportpony]

 

Yes!  Great resource for all of us.  Could you add Tylan powder too?

I did some looking around, it is one teaspoon per gallon of water.  Just my luck when I was looking for it a couple of weeks ago I stopped at the first post that said per five gallons, no wonder I am still having problems.

The info I have says one teaspoon has 2500-2700 mg tylosin.
I'll pick the 2500 number...
2500/3785 = 0.66 mg/ml
50 mg per pound = 110 mg/kg
If 1000 gram chick drinks 5% per day, that's 50 ml.
That 50 ml has only 33 mg tylosin, which is not enough

The correct amount to use will depend on how much they drink per day. If they're drinking just 5% it's not enough.

@KsKingBee, can you confirm the weigh of one teaspoon Tylan powder?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Previous post had major math screw up! Should be okay now.

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

The info I have says one teaspoon has 2500-2700 mg tylosin.
I'll pick the 2500 number...
2500/3785 = 0.66 mg/ml
50 mg per pound = 110 mg/kg
If 1000 gram chick drinks 5% per day, that's 50 ml.
That 50 ml has only 33 mg tylosin, which is not enough

The correct amount to use will depend on how much they drink per day. If they're drinking just 5% it's not enough.

@KsKingBee , can you confirm the weigh of one teaspoon Tylan powder?

-Kathy

Right at three grams per teaspoon.