I am more familiar with disease transmission in dogs and horses, whereby pathogens remain in the environment indefinitely (parvo) or are transmitted via unrelated vectors (potomac horse fever, west nile virus, etc). I have had a dog on my farm with parvo (a rescue dog, after Katrina), and now I...
The little cochin with the sticky eyes is doing better today. One other who seemed depressed but not overly "sick" had died by the time I got home. Well, much earlier, I guess - it had been kinda trampled But, no one has died from an overdose, and no one seems to be getting sicker...so I'll...
Okay, I had to give it a go...dosing for horses is 1 pill (960mg) per 100 lbs 1-2x/day. So, approx 10mg/lb. So, if I have approx 12 chicklets that are sick, they probably weigh what, 2oz each? Maybe a little more? So that's 1.5lbs. So they would need 15-30mg/day for ALL 12 of them. I put 1...
I've lost two of my cochin babies (1wk old, hatched here) in the last day...and now another one has crusty eyes and multiple other chicks have a "click" when they breathe. I've given the crusty-eyed chick ointment, and have discovered that I can (hopefully) treat the URI w/bactrim/smz-tmps...