Baytril dose for Bantam hen

[chicknmania]

I have a bantam golden cuckoo marans hen. She's about 1.5 years old, and weighs a little less than two pounds. what would be the Baytril dose for her...I have 22.5 mg tablets.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

What is wrong with her that she needs Baytril?

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a link about dosage:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/enrofloxacin-dosage.1187174/

http://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/enrofloxacin

 

[chicknmania]

She's been sick since two weeks ago. I thougtt she acted like she had worms and since I couldn't get a fecal on the weekend she got sick so I started her on Safeguard. She did improve, so I thought I was on the right track. I dosed her for five days and then stopped and followed up with vitamins and probiotics. She did quite well but then began to decline a few days ago, and seemed to have trouble keeping one eye open, but she didn't have any swelling or discharge. I decided to start her on Oxytet, figuring maybe she had a little respiratory infecition. She was still eating, so I wasn't too worried. She seemed to improve with the Oxytet for a day or so, but then declined again. I was finally able to get a fecal in to our four leg vet today, I thought maybe she still had worms or coccidiosis. He's not a poultry vet but he has some knowledge about poultry. He said the fecal was negative for everything, and when I described her symptoms to him he felt it might be possibly a systemic infection and suggested Baytril as the best recourse. I just forgot to ask him what the dose would be. For a bigger bird I know the dose but for one this small I just want to check.

 

[chicknmania]

Just as a final note. I believe my hen has Cappilariasis. And our vet was right...Baytril is the drug of choice for treatment. She has been on Baytril for two days and is making big strides in improvement. At this point, I'm hopeful she will make a full recovery. She seems headed that way.

 

[Eggcessive]

Capillaria worms can be treated by Safeguard Liquid Goat Wormer 0.25 ml per pound given orally for 5 straight days.

 

[chicknmania]

Capillaria worms can be treated by Safeguard Liquid Goat Wormer 0.25 ml per pound given orally for 5 straight days.

I'm not talking about the worms themselves! If you read my whole post you'll see I treated with Safeguard in the very beginning. The worms create inflammation and infection throughout the body..it is very common in all animals including birds. It is something particularly specific to Capillary worms. It does not matter if the worms are gone, the birds can and often times will get the infection while still fighting their worm infestation, or afterwards. . The worms themselves I obviously eliminated with the five day treatment, as I said in my original post. Capillary worms are a problem here, so yes, I know how to treat for them, but thanks for the information. WE deworm our flock twice a year and rotate dewormers. Sometimes somebody falls through the cracks or they may just not have gotten enough dewormer. I was a little late in deworming the flock this year, so maybe that was why she got an infestation. They have all been dewormed now.

I just thought it was interesting that Baytril is an effective treatment for this Capillaria infection, and thought maybe somebody might find it useful sometime.

 

[casportpony]

I just thought it was interesting that Baytril is an effective treatment for this

Baytril is effective in treating many gram-negative bacterial infections.

I just forgot to ask him what the dose would be. For a bigger bird I know the dose but for one this small I just want to check.

The dose is 4.54 mg to 6.8 mg per pound twice a day for 3-5 days.