Amoxycillin dosage

[SmiYa0126]

@SmiYa0126 she eats very well even when I wake her to give her her meds. She's happy enough in herself, I just wish I could put her back with the others but until I find a way to hide the prolapse I can't. I have 3 other hens that were picked on that are together elsehere and I might put her with them to see how they get on - hopefully, knowing that they didn't enjoy being picked on themselves they won't turn on her. You never know.

Ok, that's really good!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I will take a photo tomorrow. She gets the usual shell and hen grit, and baked eggshell. I don't give her any 'calcium' supplement though, but I have live yoghurt to mix in her mash. What would you recommend?

1 Calcium Citrate tablet daily for a week.

 

[EDS]

1 Calcium Citrate tablet daily for a week.

1 Calcium Citrate tablet daily for a week.

 

[EDS]

She had just laid an egg. At the moment she is in my polytunnel having a dust bath. I did try to put her with the 3 other hen rejects but she immediately started to fight with one of them.

 

[EDS]

1 Calcium Citrate tablet daily for a week.

I will have to buy some from a chemist next time I go to town. Thanks for that info.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is pretty important to get calcium with vit. D started right away. Tums is okay to use. At the least grind up one whole egg shell as finely as possible, and feed that to her with a bit of cooked egg. Shells are pure calcium. You would want to keep her separated at least in a dog crate from other chickens while she has a prolapse, or they will peck her, possibly severely injuring her. Once her prolapse stays inside, she is okay to go back with the others.

 

[EDS]

It is pretty important to get calcium with vit. D started right away. Tums is okay to use. At the least grind up one whole egg shell as finely as possible, and feed that to her with a bit of cooked egg. Shells are pure calcium. You would want to keep her separated at least in a dog crate from other chickens while she has a prolapse, or they will peck her, possibly severely injuring her. Once her prolapse stays inside, she is okay to go back with the others.

I have just ordered some calcium citrate from Holland and Barratt which will be here in a couple of days. Meanwhile I will grind up some egg shells and give them to her tomorrow with some hard boiled egg yolk. She is separate anyway but I let her stretch her legs a bit today and let her in the polytunnel with me - where she had a dust bath - so I had to wash-down her behind again this evening. Would you recommend putting Anusol on it? (A haemorrhoid cream same as Preparation-H I suppose). I just don't understand how something that shrinks varicose veins can shrink the prolapse but so many people recommend doing this. She bleeds a bit when she lays an egg - the shell is perfect. I honestly don't think that the prolapse is ever going to stay inside.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sometimes it can take a week or so for the prolapse to stay inside. Many use hydrocortisone cream, but honey or sugar with a few drops of water can also reduce swelling. PrepH is okay too. Any oil or cream is alright.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Poor thing.
I agree, I'd keep the tissue moist. Get some calcium into her to help with retention and of course finish the meds that your vet prescribed.
Hopefully she will improve soon.

 

[EDS]

Sometimes it can take a week or so for the prolapse to stay inside. Many use hydrocortisone cream, but honey or sugar with a few drops of water can also reduce swelling. PrepH is okay too. Any oil or cream is alright.

It has been a good couple of weeks now, at least. I have just moved her into a different pen having taken the 3 rejects out of there and put them back with the main flock but in a segregated area to get used to each other again. Prolapse hen will have her final dose of ampicillin tonight ... that will be 7 days twice a day. Her prolapse doesn't look any different, very dirty bum again so I think that I will have to bring her in tomorrow for another bucket bath to give the vent area a good soak, clean and disinfecting. This time I think I will TRY the anusol cream, I don't expect it will make any difference though. I don't have hydrocortisone cream and it's not something I can buy over the counter here. She's happy in herself, eating ok etc and scratching in the dustbath. I got the calcium citrate tablets today so have just crushed one up and am just boiling a bit of spaghetti and rice because she readily eats the spaghetti worms and the amoxycillin and calcium powder will readily stick to it. I will just keep plodding on - and at least I will get a lie-in tomorrow! I also have some honey as I kept bees, so I might try smearing her prolapse with that. I don't know which to try first, the honey or the anusol. Any ideas?