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[BDutch]

I have no experience with dosages for chickens. Giving antibiotics to chickens with IB rarely sounds right imho. For 2 reasons:

1. I heard too many times a chicken with IB dies anyway within a few months or gets new bacterial infections. Doing nothing is the best if the sick chickens defeat the bacteria themselves. If she can’t she dies.
2. I know they have increasing problems with resistant bacteria from livestock in hospitals (within humans). Giving chickens randomly amounts of antibiotics is not helpful for the general healthcare.

But do take her apart immediately to avoid further infections.

 

[ManueB]

Our 4.5kg Orpington has been prescribed doxycyline and meloxicam pills for bronchitis.
Doxycyline is 100mg 2x a day and Meloxicam is 7.5mg up to 2 x a day.

Checking Poultry DVM (https://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/doxycycline) makes it sound like that's 2x what we should do for Doxycyline and 3x what she should have for the Meloxicam (https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/meloxicam). Poultry DVM is specifying liquid meloxicam.

Does this sound right to anyone else? Is it because they're pills and would have a lower absorbancy rate?

Thnx!

My vet doses meloxicam at 0.5 mg per kg of chicken used as an antiinflammatory and 0.3 for pain relief. This is the liquid version.

Just to be sure we are talking about the same thing, this is the dosage of the active ingredient, not the total product. So you have to do a ratio to know how much med you need to give.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Our 4.5kg Orpington has been prescribed doxycyline and meloxicam pills for bronchitis.
Doxycyline is 100mg 2x a day and Meloxicam is 7.5mg up to 2 x a day.

Checking Poultry DVM (https://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/doxycycline) makes it sound like that's 2x what we should do for Doxycyline and 3x what she should have for the Meloxicam (https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/meloxicam). Poultry DVM is specifying liquid meloxicam.

Does this sound right to anyone else? Is it because they're pills and would have a lower absorbancy rate?

Thnx!

Since your Vet prescribed the medications, re-consult them about dosing and administration.

While Infectious Bronchitis (IB) is a Virus, often an antibiotic is prescribed to help with secondary Bacterial infections. Depending on the severity/strain of the Virus and overall health of the bird, most recover in a several weeks. Birds can remain carriers for up to a year, so keeping your flock closed until everyone is well is a very good idea.

IB (like most respiratory diseases) does come with some complications such as decrease in productivity, poor egg quality, transmission through the egg to hatching embryos, etc. Some research also suggests that it may be linked to Salpingitis which could crop up later on as a reproductive disorder. But hopefully the antibiotics can assist in prevention or delay of this.

If she's been around the others, they all have been exposed, the disease will probably run through the flock.


Here's some reading about poultry diseases:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PS044