Baytril dose?

[Keywizard]

Hey Henlady, I'm not a Vet, but I'm used to dealing with drug calculations at work and have been researching Baytril for my own flock. The doses are not based on pharmacokinetic data or studies in poultry, just what seems to work without killing the birds. The formulation you have is a 10% injectable and therefore contains 100 mgs/ml. A effective safe oral dose would seem to be 5 mgs/lb of body weight given twice a day. For your 5 lb chicken, give 0.25 ml twice a day of the baytril injectable solution, best given using a 1 ml or a Insulin syringe. You could also put the equivalent of 500 mgs/gallon of drinking water but it is very bitter and you would need to flavor it with sweet'n'low or fruit juice to make it more palatable. If you have a small postal or kitchen scale, I would suggest you weigh her every couple days. If she is eating and not loosing weight, the she is probable on the road to recovery. Hope this helps.

 

[Keywizard]

To clarify on the drinking water, you could put 1.25 ml in a quart of water, add some kind of sweetener and give it to your hen as her only source of drinking water.

 

[PoultryDoc]

To all those using Baytril (enrofloxacin) for treatment of poultry in the United States - you are breaking the law. To all veterinarians prescribing enrofloxacin to poultry in the USA I would suggest you stop. The FDA banned this drug for use in poultry in 2005.

 

[thehackleguy]

To all those using Baytril (enrofloxacin) for treatment of poultry in the United States - you are breaking the law. To all veterinarians prescribing enrofloxacin to poultry in the USA I would suggest you stop. The FDA banned this drug for use in poultry in 2005.

I don't think that this is a true statement. The FDA has no authority to regulate the “practice of medicine” and it is legal for veterinarians to prescribe drugs for off-label uses. In any event if you are worried about it, check with a lawyer but I highly doubt that the FDA is going to go after anyone treating their pet chicken with Baytril. Now if you are running a large commercial operation and using Baytril in the water as a growth aid to control Campylobactor then you are going to have a visit from the FDA.
You can find the 127 page decision document on the FDA website, but drink a Mountain Dew….it is a snoozer.

 

[casportpony]

I just checked a chart that said 1mL. equals 1000mg.
6 lbs. equals 3 kg.
so at 10 mg. per kg. you should give 30 mg. to your 6 lbs. chicken.
if you are giving her 1mL, you are giving her 1000 mg. that seems way to much, make sure your Vet. got that conversion right. If she prescribed1.5 mL. that would be 1500 mg.
Please, anyone else check on this. I will check some more with with someone else on this and get back a little later.

I know this is old, but I thought I should point out that there are 100mg of Enrofloxacin in 1ml of 10% Baytril, *not* 1000mg. The dose I have been told to give is .15-.20mg/kg, that equals .15-.20ml per 2.2 pounds when using the 10% solution. It's quite possible that the vet recommended 1.5ml of the 2.27% solution, which has 22.7mg per 1ml, which would be correct for a 6 pound bird.

-Kathy

 

[Chicken Love]

OK, I know this is old, but I'm about to start treating a bird with baytril and am wondering why put it in the water when you can inject it and make sure it gets in there?

 

[casportpony]

OK, I know this is old, but I'm about to start treating a bird with baytril and am wondering why put it in the water when you can inject it and make sure it gets in there?

Injectable Baytril should not be put int the water, but it can be given orally.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I know this is old, but I thought I should point out that there are 100mg of Enrofloxacin in 1ml of 10% Baytril, *not* 1000mg. The dose I have been told to give is .15-.20mg/kg, that equals .15-.20ml per 2.2 pounds when using the 10% solution. It's quite possible that the vet recommended 1.5ml of the 2.27% solution, which has 22.7mg per 1ml, which would be correct for a 6 pound bird.

-Kathy

Opps, my bad! Thought I should point out the typo in my post (#15), the .15-.20mg/kg I typed above is wrong, it should have said 15-20mg/kg.

-Kathy

 

[Lillian918]

Baytril given by injection will cause severe tissue damage. Injectable should be given orally. Tablets can be crushed and put in drinking water.

 

[casportpony]

Baytril given by injection will cause severe tissue damage. Injectable should be given orally. Tablets can be crushed and put in drinking water.

Welcome to BYC!​

Baytril *can* cause injection site reactions, but so can Tylan and LA200. If one want to reduce the possibility of injection site reactions with Baytril they should give the shots SC (subcutaneously) in a bolus of fluids. Baytril should not be mixed in water as most animals don't like the taste of it and won't drink the water. When in doubt, just give it orally or as recommended by your veterinarian.


-Kathy