If you have this handy **This is just what I know I've given.** I was surprised that when our dog and cats needed it, the vet prescribed Keflex ([COLOR=444444]Cephalexin)[/COLOR] for them. And the vet charged me like $50 for it too! I've used it in a pinch. I believe they come in 250 and 500 mg capsules. [COLOR=333333]Here is the thread on it:[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/827968/cephalexin-dosage-for-chickens[/COLOR] Here is a quote from a byc thread on Keflex for chickens: [COLOR=333333]And Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook says:[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]
35-50 mg/kg by mouth four times a day (Clubb 1986)
40-100 mg/kg by mouth every six hours (Hoeffer 1995)
[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]-Kathy[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Here is the link they found listing many more meds: http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/09_therapeutic_agents.pdf[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]I know Clyndamycin was also given to my dogs before. NOT sure about cats, but this chart mentions that too for birds. Just be careful and double check if you ever use any of the other meds they list. I've never used all of them and would be leary at first.[/COLOR] Yes it is tough working with fondant. I try to do it for special occasions for the ones I love. That makes it worth it. Here is the pic.The toys are just toys, but all the detail and chocolate shells I made. Since there's fish in it and they are the "chicken of the sea", I hope it's ok I post
That totally does need duck eggs! If only I knew where 2 was depositing... Ok that sounds wrong. If only I knew where the duck named 2 was hiding her eggs... I spent all morning getting roosters ready for inspection and I think I've been no showed. Grrrrr.
I was inspired by your flock's color palette and am copying it. Can't wait until I have some "Watt Line" silver and black birds running around my yard.
Is the black Marans pure black? I would love a darker egg layer in splash or black.
Sorry about your chick
but glad everyone else seems to be healthy and hearty.
aww, glad you like the palette! i'm a big fan of silver anything... and yes, that one marans is pure black -- apparently the egg came from some championship birds, too. she's lovely.
One of my nicer Dork pullets has a serious injury on her foot. It looks like she caught her center toe on something and almost ripped it off. The laceration goes 2/3 of the way around the toe.
I didn't see it right away. She's out on pasture (which is dirt, due to the drought) and there was all kinds of yuck in the wound. Infection has set in and the foot is swollen.
I noticed her limping and brought her in the house for treatment. My husband tried to scrub all the gunk out of the wound, which made it start bleeding. Bandaging a 5 toed fowl is a challenge.
Her behavior is normal. She watched him cleaning out the gunk with curiosity, I could barely watch. She seems perfectly healthy, other than the foot. She's not eating her chicken feed but scarfed down the cat kibble he gave her.
She is one of my first Dorking pullets to reach Standard weight, so I want to try to heal her foot and use her for breeding. I don't usually medicate chickens, but I want to give her an antibiotic to help the wound heal. My vet doesn't deal with chickens and would just tell me to cull her. I can't afford UCD vets.
What should I use and where can I get some penicillin or appropriate antibiotic for poultry?
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Thank you Karen, I can't wait to get an incubator. My Seramas have started laying again so I want to hatch their eggs I don't have any LF roosters so I can only hatch bantams unless of course I happen to buy some hatching eggs lol.
