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I went home at lunch and used the tube-feeding method to give Lulu gatorade/water for hydration. I wound up giving her 40ml. Probably not enough for her weight based on your 15ml per pound, but I was a bit wary shoving stuff into her crop, as a first-timer. As scary as tube-feeding looks, it was much easier than I thought it would be. I will mix the baby bird food/liquid mixture and give that to her when I get home, but wanted to hydrate her before I pumped food into her. I also gave her another .5ml Tylan50 injection. When I get home I plan to give the Tylan50 to all the other hens again, orally. Now that I know I can tube-feed Lulu, I'm assuming I can put it in the syringe with her food/liquid, if she won't eat or drink.
The dosing for the Tylan50 has me a bit confused. I have the liquid for injection. I am not familiar with these types of calculations or powder vs. liquid medications. I want to confirm that the medication I have (liquid Tylan50) can be given at 4 ml per day for a 4 pound bird (3 ml for a 3 pound, etc.). I will be making another run to the store on the way home from work for a scale. Besides the dosing amounts, my plans are as follows. Please let me know if I should do anything differently.
As long as my other three hens haven't stopped eating and/or drinking, I am going to leave them in the coop/run and give them about 2 ml (depending on weight) of Tylan50 liquid orally two times per day for a total of 5 days. I started Tuesday evening, so I will finish on Sunday morning.
I am going to keep Lulu inside the house and continue to give her food/gatorade mixture and 2ml (depending on weight) of Tylan50 orally by tube-feeding two times per day for a total of 5 days. I started on Tuesday evening, so I will finish on Sunday morning.
For the 9 chicks, I am going to switch the antibiotic in their water to Tylan50 for 5 days. They have already been drinking water with Terramycin in it for 5 days. If any of them start symptoms (I did see more runny poops than usual today in their grow-out pen... :-( ) I will bother you casportpony for how to give them their meds.
Thanks so much again!
The dosing for the Tylan50 has me a bit confused. I have the liquid for injection. I am not familiar with these types of calculations or powder vs. liquid medications. I want to confirm that the medication I have (liquid Tylan50) can be given at 4 ml per day for a 4 pound bird (3 ml for a 3 pound, etc.). I will be making another run to the store on the way home from work for a scale. Besides the dosing amounts, my plans are as follows. Please let me know if I should do anything differently.
As long as my other three hens haven't stopped eating and/or drinking, I am going to leave them in the coop/run and give them about 2 ml (depending on weight) of Tylan50 liquid orally two times per day for a total of 5 days. I started Tuesday evening, so I will finish on Sunday morning.
I am going to keep Lulu inside the house and continue to give her food/gatorade mixture and 2ml (depending on weight) of Tylan50 orally by tube-feeding two times per day for a total of 5 days. I started on Tuesday evening, so I will finish on Sunday morning.
For the 9 chicks, I am going to switch the antibiotic in their water to Tylan50 for 5 days. They have already been drinking water with Terramycin in it for 5 days. If any of them start symptoms (I did see more runny poops than usual today in their grow-out pen... :-( ) I will bother you casportpony for how to give them their meds.
Thanks so much again!