American serama thread!

[bobbyc1970]

la 200 liquamycin
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Yep they do, and the sinuses track under the eye. They can fill with sinus drainage. It can be expressed out, and will drain out the tear duct or the nose.

Oh forgot to add, my hen Ivy (SLW) had swelling like that, in her case it was an eye infection. The vet showed how it could be expressed out if it had been a sinus infection. She ended up on by mouth baytril for a week. Then she had a relapse and I put her on 14 days of tylan injectable which cured her.

 

[nurseshelly]

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Awww how exciting!!! I'm hoping to have the same surprise in about 2 more weeks. All four of my hens are sitting on 3 eggs and of course also on the big plastic egg too, must keep that toasty warm. At least maybe they'll all get over being broody at one time!

 

[bobbyc1970]

i also have duramycin-10 but its the kind you mix with water

 

[nurseshelly]

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Oh forgot to add, my hen Ivy (SLW) had swelling like that, in her case it was an eye infection. The vet showed how it could be expressed out if it had been a sinus infection. She ended up on by mouth baytril for a week. Then she had a relapse and I put her on 14 days of tylan injectable which cured her.


It looks like a good broad spectrum antibiotic. I'm not personally familiar with it, but I looked it up, it's basically tetracycline. You should see a big improvement by 48 hours. If you don't see improvement within 48 hours the liquamycin is probably not going to work. If that happens, I would switch to Tylan 50 or 200 (whichever you can find), because it targets a different group of bacteria, even though both are broad spectrum. The dose of Tylan is 0.25ml for a Serama (adult size or close to it). You should switch sides every day, so you don't damage the muscle on one side by being injected too often.

 

[nurseshelly]

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The injectable would be more effective than the kind they drink, since you know they are getting the dose into their body. It just depends on what spectrum of germs each is meant for. I'm not that familiar with animal antibiotics and what they treat. The intended uses for Tylan and Baytril seem very close, so anything you would use baytril for, the tylan should do just as well.

Oh, I just looked up the duramycin, and it is basically the "by mouth" version of the la 200 liquamycin ... both have similar spectrum, and both would treat respiratory disease in chickens. So I think you are good. Since the liquamycin isn't specifically for chickens, it didn't list chicken illnesses it treats. The duramycin is specifically meant for chickens and it does cover most bacterial respiratory illnesses.

If it was just a sneeze here and there I would do the duramycin. Since it's causing so much swelling I would continue with the liquamycin.

But, like I said, if they aren't much better in 48 hours (or sooner) I would either change medication or go to the vet. You don't want to mess around if it's not working.

 

[Ilovetohatch]

Took some pictures of my Barred trio and Barred Pair so hope you like... the trio is the same pair with just a growing out barred pullet the pair Is a split barred rooster over a black hen.

Pair

Barred pullet

Trio

Black hen

Barred rooster

 

[gumbii]

nice crocks...

 

[nurseshelly]

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Aww just think how much fun we could have if you were in Queen Creek

I've done most things to my pets at home under a vet's direction. Since I'm a nurse they're like, o ya you can do that at home

I drew the line at doing home thoracentisis on my sick cat. I didn't really want to stick an 18 gauge needle between my cat's ribs and drain lymph fluid every other day. Much rather pay $60 every other day than do that even if I had to go into debt to do it. She was already mad at me for force feeding her. For those of you in AZ, it was my favorite vet Dr. Burke who wanted me to do that. I was like no thanks!

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, but I'm glad I'm not ... this is terrible but it doesn't bother me to put an IV into a child's vein so they can get medicine and get well - no matter how much they don't like it - because I know they have to have it to get well. But I have a much harder time doing "mean" things to animals, maybe it's because they are MY animals I'm having to do procedures on, but mostly I think it's because they don't know what you're going to do and have no defense against it, and I can't explain to make it better. At least with kids they have a mom or dad, or other loved one to comfort them after, and explain why ... or they are too young to care why, just that mom or dad is there to make it better. When it's my pet, I'm the one doing the mean thing and there isn't anyone else to make it better, except maybe some treats later from my DH who doesn't do medical stuff to them.

 

[nurseshelly]

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Aww I love them

 

[nurseshelly]

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