antibiotics and other treatments for salpingitis?

[Jenbirdee]

8 year old welsh harlequin duck hen with ( most likely) salpingitis . we gave her a run of Baytril twice in the past few months. (followed by probiotics) and both times she improved a lot but then after a couple weeks her symptoms came back.
she’s hiding away from the others most of the time and doesn’t run over for food or treats , she just look sad, but she occasionally walks around and gets a little bit to eat. She poops out what looks like cooked egg whites sometimes.. Ive posted about her before , her name is cookie. I am considering putting her to sleep because maybe she’s suffering..
Before I do that, is there any other antibiotic I could try or anything else? vet not option.
besides the baytril i have fish mox and tylan . is it worth trying one of those?

 

[Sally PB]

I treated my (chicken) hen with aquamox (amoxicillin, and fish mox is probably the same). 250 mg, twice a day for 10 days.

That was early February, and she's still with us. I'd read that the average life expectancy with salpingitis is 6 months. She's at 5.5 now.

Good luck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

8 year old welsh harlequin duck hen with ( most likely) salpingitis . we gave her a run of Baytril twice in the past few months. (followed by probiotics) and both times she improved a lot but then after a couple weeks her symptoms came back.
she’s hiding away from the others most of the time and doesn’t run over for food or treats , she just look sad, but she occasionally walks around and gets a little bit to eat. She poops out what looks like cooked egg whites sometimes.. Ive posted about her before , her name is cookie. I am considering putting her to sleep because maybe she’s suffering..
Before I do that, is there any other antibiotic I could try or anything else? vet not option.
besides the baytril i have fish mox and tylan . is it worth trying one of those?

I treated my (chicken) hen with aquamox (amoxicillin, and fish mox is probably the same). 250 mg, twice a day for 10 days.

That was early February, and she's still with us. I'd read that the average life expectancy with salpingitis is 6 months. She's at 5.5 now.

Good luck.

Definitely worth a try.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Definitely worth a try.

is the dosage same for ducks?

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is what I found
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/amoxicillin-dosage-for-duck.1529204/#post-25782487

 

[bubbyduck]

I’ve had one or two girls with salpingitis. Was prescribed amoxicillin but if it reoccurs the only treatments are surgery or implants. She does look uncomfortable in your photos. It can cause eggs to get stuck and all kinds of things, you would really need an ultrasound to know what’s happening for her may be something medication isn’t going to fix.

 

[Jenbirdee]

cookie is much better after 12 days of Amoxicillin and today I gave her Probiotics . She is also molting. I think tomorrow I’ll give her rooster booster poultry cell.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great news!!

 

[Sally PB]

I’ve had one or two girls with salpingitis. Was prescribed amoxicillin but if it reoccurs

What I've read: the question is not if it recurs, but when. I have also heard that the average life expectancy after that is 6 months. I have a hen (Pip) who passed lash material (ie, has salpingitis) in early February. I treated her with Amoxicillin.

We're coming up on 6 months with Pip. She doesn't lay any more, that I've been able to tell, and that's fine by me. She's fairly active (it's hot, so none of them are very active), and seems healthy now.

How long did your girls with salpingitis survive? I'd love to think that Pip will be around for awhile, because of course she is my favorite.

 

[bubbyduck]

What I've read: the question is not if it recurs, but when. I have also heard that the average life expectancy after that is 6 months. I have a hen (Pip) who passed lash material (ie, has salpingitis) in early February. I treated her with Amoxicillin.

We're coming up on 6 months with Pip. She doesn't lay any more, that I've been able to tell, and that's fine by me. She's fairly active (it's hot, so none of them are very active), and seems healthy now.

How long did your girls with salpingitis survive? I'd love to think that Pip will be around for awhile, because of course she is my favorite.

My first girl just got eggs stuck and backwards, no warning, vet said it was probably because of salpingitis but I won’t ever know for sure. She had a hysterectomy and is fine. Second girl had a bout that I caught very quickly, course of amoxicillin cleared it and she went into molt as it was the end of the season and she didn’t lay for 8 months. She just started laying again and is being weird at the moment. She’s still active and happy though. The vets weren’t sure it was a reoccurrence but some of the signs are there so retreating her at the moment. Since it’s the start of the laying season where I am I am fairly apprehensive. If they go sterile does that not cure the condition If they don’t have hardened yuck material anywhere of course.. (can they be reinfected by their own material?) Neither of mine laid lash eggs, from what I’ve read the infection has been established for a while at that point.