It’s been a while since I’ve done metric conversion and dose calc but I think I’m in the safe range, but if you have the time can you please check my math in pic. I just want to make sure we’re in the same line of thinking for safe range.
Initially I estimated Spatch at 6lbs to ensure I didn’t...
It was much much worse when it first happened. He was close to death..very panicked then quiet.
He’s my sweetheart and quite tame but no lap chicken.
But with this illness he is appreciative of the TLC- he knows he needs it and I believe he understands exactly why I’m coddling him.
Here are the videos. first vid is 2 hrs after initial event and benadryl. whatever that event was, I don’t know. :
respiratory wheeze, 2 hrs post event
Today Husky crow, low rumble and wheeze afterward which sounds like a whoopie cushion— not well heard on audio but turn vol up.
He’s back...
Thank you so much for reply!! I’m watching the flock very closely- no resp illness so far. I have far too many migrating birds - so keeping the flock in covered run.
Spatch-I’ll try to upload video before noon today. he is so much better. Wheeze can be heard at the end of his crow. video later-...
Spatch survived the night. Still wheezing but not nearly as bad. I decided to treat as if pneumonia. I managed to slowly get 1.5 ml Tylosin 50 down orally but he did not tolerate that well so gave the remainder IM.
I re-dosed benadryl. By mid morning he was audibly much better, comb nice and...
I heard a chicken ‘yelp’, went outside and my rooster is in respiratory distress with stridor, gurgling and high pitched cough- like a small dog yapping- shaking head while cough. comb purple—looked panicked.
Mouth clear, no swelling of face or tongue, no foreign body in throat. I popped in a...