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Most antibiotics are intramuscular or subcutaneous (some are either/or as well). Interveinous ones are pretty rare and usually only for cows or horses.

You are exactly right. All the soluable products are intended for dosing hundreds of birds simultaneously. There is absolutely nothing wrong with injectibles... it's just that most people don't have experience giving shots so they shy away from it. It really is simple, though.

If you are using injectible amoxycillin or penecillin, get an insulin syringe from a pharmacy. They're perfect for the small doses you need for chickens and waterfowl. I usually give it right in the back of the thigh. It seems to be a nice meaty spot. Of course, I market all my birds as...

You will find some sort of dosage on the bottles... usually for pigs and cows. You can choose to scale down the rate; or the rule I've heard for chickens is 1/2 CC daily. I was giving 1.5 CC daily since geese are obviously larger. I think you would have to be incredibly overdosing a duck to...

This has been reinforcing that geese are my favorite animals on the farm.

The gashes are scabbed over. She refuses to be hindered by it. When her flock flies off, she's there chasing them with her one good wing flapping, skipping across the ground. We're catching her every other night and giving her penecilling and reapplying the red kote (like blue kote, but red)...

Well I had my first dog attack one of my geese. I have 30-something geese that wander around the farmhouse here. My weekend neighbor has a Portugese Water Dog who has a strong prey drive. He is very concientious of this and the dog is always leashed. He was loading him into the crate in his...