Pro Pen-G?

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scooby

scooby

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Jun 29, 2008
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my chicken has a large wound on her side/back and so i went to the feed store and got some penicillin but then relized i had bought PRO-PEN-G (penicillin G Procaine injectable) and i thought i had read somewhere that anything ending in caine was bad/toxic to chickens. it that correct or am i mixing this up with something else. is the pro-pen-g ok to give her? and if it is does anyone know the dosage for a 2 lb chicken?
 
It is okay to give Penicillin G Procaine to chickens. It's a different *caine.

I know this from experience, as I just had a very sick hen, dosed her for a week with Pen G Procaine, and now she is back in the coop doing fine.

To figure out the dosage, you need to know how many units per ml (cc) in your Pen G Procaine. You say you have to mix it? Mine came premixed.

I will find the thread where we discussed proper dosing and post it here.

ETA -- oh I see you were mixed up, not mixing it up. Back in a sec with the link.
 
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The normal dosing for Pen G Procaine is 3,000 units/lb of body weight. Does she already have an infection, or are you trying to prevent one? We used a much higher dose for my bird because she had a bad infection. If you are using the Pen G preventitively, then you might want to stick to the normal dose. For a 2 lb bird, that would be 6,000 units once a day.
 
That's the same Pen G Procaine that I used. 300,000 units/ml. To give your bird 6,000 units, you would need 0.02cc for a 2 lb bird. What size syringe do you have?
 
1/5th of a ml (yes cc's are the same as mls) would be enough for a 20 lb bird at the recommended dosage. You don't want 0.2cc, but 0.02cc. Note the extra zero after the decimal.

what size syringe do you have? What is the smallest increment?
 

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