Antibiotics Question

[cmlew99]

Thank you @casportpony and @seminolewind, that clears things up! Seminolewind, you mentioned supportive care? What would that entail?

It's strange, because I just visited my hen and she appeared completely healthy and normal. But I'm willing to bet that tonight she'll be sniffling again! Does anyone know why that is? Should I continue on the duramycin after all for a few days?

 

[casportpony]

How dusty is your coop?

-Kathy

 

[cmlew99]

The coop she usually resides in isn't that dusty I don't think... But the run is all dirt, so that might be dusty I suppose. But she hasn't been in there in a week. When she got sick I started keeping her in a dog crate with pine shavings in the basement at night, and in a different outside enclosure during the day

 

[casportpony]

When I notice that one of mine is "off", for whatever reason, I get a baseline weight on it, then weigh every few days at the same time in the morning. Any weight loss is a sign that the bird is getting sicker. For weighing birds under 11 pounds I use a digital kitchen scale.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here are the test results of a peachick that had a respiratory infection. Drugs that would have worked to treat this bird have an S by them, ones that would never work have an R.


-Kathy

Edited to add:
Not my peachick.

 

[cmlew99]

Thanks! Another thing I noticed, is she is losing her feathers. There aren't any bare patches on her, but I think she might be molting (she hasn't done this yet). Also, whenever she preens she starts sounding really stuffy and has to sneeze to clear it up

 

[seminolewind]

Thank you @casportpony and @seminolewind , that clears things up! Seminolewind, you mentioned supportive care? What would that entail?

It's strange, because I just visited my hen and she appeared completely healthy and normal. But I'm willing to bet that tonight she'll be sniffling again! Does anyone know why that is? Should I continue on the duramycin after all for a few days?

Hi. By supportive care I mean just doing things to help her feel better while you wait out the virus.

 

[cmlew99]

Oh okay, thanks! I'm going to just try the tylan 50 orally tomorrow because that is what I have on hand. I've never done this before, so what is the best way to do this? I have a 1 cc syringe without a needle that I can use to dose her with. Do I just hold her wings down with my arms, firmly hold her head, pry open her beak with my fingers and squirt in 1/2 cc of the tylan 50 a little at a time into her mouth? Do I point the syringe horizontally across towards the left and just let her do the swallowing?

 

[casportpony]

Read this link: http://www.hopkinslivestock.com/oral_dosing_article.htm


From:http://www.hopkinslivestock.com/oral_dosing_article.htm
The hole at the back of the tongue is the trachea - Nothing should ever go in there!




-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This is how my roommate did a bird for the first time:











-Kathy