3 week old chick droopy wings, not drinking....

[casportpony]

I'm horrible with math. Just look at my chicken math (replacing 1 dead chick means buying 3 more ) but here is what I did.

1 gallon is equal to roughly 3.7 liters.

So with half of that would be roughly 2 liters (lots of rounding in my math).

Now, I kept getting different doses ranging from 3/4 teaspoon to 1.5 teaspoons so I did math my way again and decided that the dosage should be 1 teaspoon per gallon. Since I don't have a gallon jar/bucket/bottle I took a 2 liter bottle, cleaned it out real well and that gave me half a gallon! Add in 1/2 teaspoon (half the dosage for a full gallon) and shake well!

It's horrible math and probably completely wrong BUT Eli is doing much much better. Her wings are back up, her energy is picking up, she's eating like a piggy, and while she is not 100% she is well on the road to recovery so chicken math went my way this time. lol

And that is the most important thing!

-Kathy

 

[elliechooks]

Glad she's recovering! I found the recovery was just as quick as the illness took hold!
The liquid amprolium in the uk is a different concentration that works out about 1 tsp per litre water! Good to know its safe and unlikely to overdose because it's all a bit too confusing!

 

[casportpony]

Glad she's recovering! I found the recovery was just as quick as the illness took hold!
The liquid amprolium in the uk is a different concentration that works out about 1 tsp per litre water! Good to know its safe and unlikely to overdose because it's all a bit too confusing!

Don't want to add to the confusion, but I've also seen 25% powder, so this is one of the reasons it's so important to understand mg, percentages, grams, ounces, liters, ml, cc, etc, lol. This is hard work for me!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This wil be where I do the math for the liquid based off of these instructions:

DOSAGE LEVEL MIXING DIRECTIONS
0.024% Add 1 pint (16 fluid ounces) of AMPROL (amprolium 9.6% Oral Solution to about 5 gallons of water in a 50-gallon medication barrel. Stir, then add
water to the 50-gallon mark. Stir thoroughly.
0.012% Follow same directions as above but use 1/2 pint (8 fluid ounces) of
AMPROL 9.6% Oral Solution
0.006% Follow same directions as above but use 4 fluid ounces of AMPROL 9.6%
Oral Solution

Facts

• There are 473.1 ml in 16 fluid ounces
• There are 29.5735 ml in one fluid ounce
• There are 96 mg amprolium in 1 ml
• 9.4632 ml = 1.91993 teaspoons

For the .024% level
If 16 ounces (473.16 ml) are needed for 50 gallons, 1/50 of that is need for one gallon. 473.16 ml divided by 50 equals 9.4632 ml per gallon. 96 mg x 9.4632 ml = 908.4672 mg per gallon. That means that you need no less than 9.4632ml or 1.91993 teaspoons per gallon. I'll go out on a limb here and say that it's safe to use 9.5-10 ml or 2 teaspoons per US gallon.

Half that for .012 or one quarter that for .006.

For those that use liters​

mixing Directions

To prepare 200 L of medicated water:

DOSAGE​

Mixing Directions
​

0.0240%
​

Add 500 mL of AMPROL

9.6% Solution to about 25 L of water in a 200 L medication barrel. Stir, then add water to the 200 L mark. STIR THOROUGHLY.​

0.0120%
​

Use same directions as above but use 250 mL of AMPROL

9.6% Solution.​

0.0060%
​

Use same directions as above but use 125 mL of AMPROL

9.6% Solution​

-Kathy

Note: Please, please, please, if I have made an error, please let me know so I can fix it and apologize.

 

[casportpony]

How is your bird?

-Kathy

 

[Kyochan]

She is doing very well, thank God.