✮ How to Give Pills to Chickens and Ducks - Videos ✮

[casportpony]

I've found that all you need to do is to be able to get a pill on the tongue and the chicken will automatically swallow. Chicken tongues aren't nearly as devious as cat tongues. Cat tongues can whip that pill back out at a velocity rivaled by a gun shooting a bullet.

Cats have fangs and claws!

 

[azygous]

Good to know, I wondered that. What pills have you given you birds?

Amoxicillin, penicillin tabs, vitamin E, B complex, B1, B2, and calcium citrate all as treatments for various issues from infection to lameness to soft egg issues. Even if you only need to give a pill once a year, it's a stressful proposition. This method where you grasp the beak from behind the head certainly is helpful.

 

[azygous]

Cats have fangs and claws!

Yeah, giving a cat a pill is a DEFCON 1 operation.

 

[aart]

Yeah, giving a cat a pill is a DEFCON 1 operation.

Just living with a cat is like that...IMO.
Have had numerous cats over the decades,
doubt I'll ever allow one in my house again.
Dogs are just so much more biddable.

 

[Kathy Golla]

I'd like to see that vet tech wrestle my humongous BO hen who is also THE PLANETS WORST PATIENT when it comes to taking pills.

 

[casportpony]

I'd like to see that vet tech wrestle my humongous BO hen who is also THE PLANETS WORST PATIENT when it comes to taking pills.

I have a peahen that's like that. I dread the days when I have to catch them and check for lice.

Edited to add: The gal giving the pill is a vet, not a tech.

 

[Miss Lydia]

She sure made it look easy.

 

[casportpony]

How to give a pill to a duck:

 

[rosieoreoandpancake]

how big can the pills be? the calcium citrate i have is like 1/2" tablet- is that okay?