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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    @casportpony does ½ a tablet of Meloxicam (15 mg tablets) 2x/ day sound right?
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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    @casportpony how many days do I give the baytril?
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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    Ok... thank you so much... would it be ok to break it into quarters and wrap in small pieces of bread and put it in her mouth or should it be crushed and mixed with water. Also wondering if I should give her some Meloxicam for pain , I have 15 mg tablets. She does seem to be in pain and didn't...
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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    Turkey weighs approximately 12.6 lbs. So I should give her 88.2 mg 2x/day? I'm just want to make sure that's right cause my 10lb. dog only got ¼ tablet once/ day, I know they are 2 different kinds of animals I just want to make sure I don't o.d. my turkey.
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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    This is the best pic I could get of the wound... the slimy looking stuff is vetricyn that I sprayed on it...
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    Injured turkey, wound is infected... Please help!

    Our 6 year old turkey hen has an injury that I didn't realize was there til tonight because of how she was standing tonight. It appears to be a breeding injury, there is bad swelling and it is very infected, I sprayed vetricin in and all over the wound. I would like to give her baytril but don't...
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    Thank you all so much for your help it is greatly appreciated... Our sweet little Blondie passed away early this morning, I had given her the Meloxicam last night so I'm hoping she was atleast in a little less pain before she went :( I'm guessing she either lost too much blood or there was...
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    Can you help me figure Meloxicam dose. I need to know how many ccs/ mls... The dosing I found was .5mg/kg and our turkey Blondie is about 8.4 lbs., I believe that's 3.85 kg... If I figured correctly she would need 1.93 mg but am having troubles figuring out how many MLS (the box say 1.5mg/ml)or...
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    She is currently enjoying a nice Epson salt soak... Wasn't sure how much salt to put in so I used 1/3 cup of Epson salt. Do you think I should give her some Meloxicam? I have the liquid and tablet form...
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    I put the spray gel on her this morning as that's all I had to work with at the time and it seemed to keep it nice and moist... It sounds like I need to up my dosing of calcium... Is there a difference between calcium citrate and the calcium I have? I'll also include pics of the spray gel bottle...
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    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    I know this is an old thread but I hope that anybody that thought that being LGBT+ was a lifestyle realizes now that it is no more a lifestyle than being straight is.
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    I did give her half a gel cap of calcium that I had on hand... I looked at the label closer and it has d3 too... I only gave her half cause I wasn't sure how much to give her. I put some triple antibiotic on it as well and then dipped it in sugar and tucked her in for the night... I'll check it...
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    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    Is there a good way to put the honey on it? It seems like it would be too sticky. I did soak it in warm water mixed with some raw manuka honey earlier. She is able to poop but there's also some watery blood drips everytime she poops. I don't know if there's another egg or not, there was no egg...
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