Amoxicillin Dosage for Bite Infection Prevention

[CoopBoots]

One of my hens got attacked by something, and definitely sustained bite wounds. I'm doing what I can for wound treatment but I'm concerned about infection from predator saliva. I live in Southern US, no vet to prescribe for my chicken either, so looking for help converting a human antibiotic for use. I have a 400 mg/5 ml suspension... not a lot... but it's all I have. Any help at all super appreciated. Thank you!

 

[rachellea]

Hi coop boots! Mikes falconry I think the name is has exotic bird antibiotics and I suggest them before those are illegal too.

Anyway I would maybe just do the bare minimum - maybe 30 mg as you’re not sure it’s infected yet .. when you clean this wound out do you have iodine? It helps greatly

 

[CoopBoots]

Hi coop boots! Mikes falconry I think the name is has exotic bird antibiotics and I suggest them before those are illegal too. Anyway I would maybe just do the bare minimum , what antibiotic is this?

Amoxicillin, appreciate the recommendation! I much rather have something intended for a bird than give her secondhand stuff... I'll check what is available with Mike's Falconry for sure.

 

[rachellea]

Amoxicillin, appreciate the recommendation! I much rather have something intended for a bird than give her secondhand stuff... I'll check what is available with Mike's Falconry for sure.

Hey I just checked up on this 30 mg would be correct, if the chicken is like 2 -3 lbs

 

[rachellea]

https://www.mikesfalconry.com/produ...MI2vme0cz1hgMVrGhHAR3x9QJvEBwYASACEgJ3gvD_BwE

I would typically give 2 x as much as their birds are small. I’ve lucked into fish antibiotics at cal-vetsupply recently too but the human dosage problem still applies (250 mg a pill)

 

[Perris]

https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/data-research/facts-stats/

 

[rachellea]

https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/data-research/facts-stats/

Useful but I don’t think any of us are eating these chickens, and I surely am not taking an animal antibiotic, that’s why it confuses me that fish antibiotics are the same mg as humans- like how though?

Does make me understand why they would ban it cause there’s no way a fish should be on what a human should be on. They are asking for trouble/ however for many people it was the only option for treating their chicken ..

 

[Perris]

Does make me understand why they would ban it

Actually from what you say, I don't think you do get it. Antibiotic resistance is the issue, and it is caused by people giving the wrong antibiotic, in the wrong dose, for the wrong time, so that the bugs they are trying to kill [or worse, just fear but don't even know whether they are present or not] aren't killed but rather become resistant to the drug. And when human-critical antibiotics like amoxicillin are given in this way, even to animals, we get to the situation where the drugs don't work when we are trying to save a person rather than a chicken.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-01-2...019-antibiotic-resistant-bacterial-infections