Amoxicillin and chickens

[casportpony]

Hello Kathy!

Do you know if there is an updated link for this. I realize it was 2015. The page is not found...

Yes, here it is:
http://avianmedicine.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/09_therapeutic_agents.pdf

 

[ZedikerStation]

Thank you very much! Are there any creative ways to pare down a medication and to add something to administer? By way of example, I'd like to divide up 500mg fish mox capsules into 250mg amounts. Could that be put in coconut oil and chilled to make a more solid application? Or would that not interact well with the Amoxicillin?
I wonder if there is an existing list of what to mix different antibiotics with?

 

[casportpony]

Thank you very much! Are there any creative ways to pare down a medication and to add something to administer? By way of example, I'd like to divide up 500mg fish mox capsules into 250mg amounts. Could that be put in coconut oil and chilled to make a more solid application? Or would that not interact well with the Amoxicillin?
I wonder if there is an existing list of what to mix different antibiotics with?

I compound my own using a liquid:

 

[ZedikerStation]

Using this, do you make a paste?

 

[casportpony]

Using this, do you make a paste?

No, I make a liquid. Let me see if I can find a thread I did about it.

 

[coach723]

I often do the fish mox with coconut oil. The ora-blend is probably more accurate if you want to be more exact. I actually use the coconut oil for most meds that are pill or capsule and the dose has to be different than what it comes in.

 

[ZedikerStation]

@casportpony , I saw somewhere else that you prefer Baytril over Amoxicillin for Salpingitis. Still true?

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony , I saw somewhere else that you prefer Baytril over Amoxicillin for Salpingitis. Still true?

yes, and that because the bacteria are usually more sensitive to enrofloxacin than amoxicillin.

 

[ZedikerStation]

yes, and that because the bacteria are usually more sensitive to enrofloxacin than amoxicillin.

I am trying to get prepared in the event we have another issue. Running around trying to get supplies and medication at night proved to be quite difficult. Diagnosis is another challenge in and of itself. We probably could have saved at least one of the two hens we recently lost if we had been better prepared. Thanks again!!!

 

[illinoishiker]

I tried smashing the powder from a capsule into a soft piece of bread. My girls love bits of bread for treats. She took it up didn't like the taste plus the smashed in powder sprinkled out onto the ground. Then I wetted the bread and smashed the powder into that and held onto it for her to eat from my hand. She took one small bite and didn't like the taste. I ended up breaking it into very small balls and giving it to her orally. It worked well enough that way. I wish I had tablets but this is capsules from my dentist I couldn't tolerate.