can you give a chick Baytril 10%?

[dab89]

My chick has all the symptoms of Infectious Coryza. Will Baytril 10% help her at all? Can you give it to her? She is about 5 weeks old...

 

[dawg53]

My chick has all the symptoms of Infectious Coryza. Will Baytril 10% help her at all? Can you give it to her? She is about 5 weeks old...

If there's a foul odor around the chicks head area, then it's most likely coryza. If not, it may be some other type of respiratory disease. It could be an environmental issue such as inhaling feed dust causing the chick to sneeze or maybe ammonia fumes from soiled bedding, etc...these things can be corrected or eliminated.
Baytril in combination with sulmet will treat coryza. However it will be very harsh on the chicks system. It's best to seperate and cull if in fact it's coryza or any other respiratory disease, it will easily spread to other birds.

 

[speckledhen]

Agree with Dawg. If a chick that young has Coryza or any other contagious respiratory disease that leaves the bird a carrier, it's best to cull. Antibiotics won't fix that.

Any others with symptoms? Did you just buy this chick from someone? Has it been separated from the others?

 

[dab89]

We bought her from a local breeder and she came with one other chick thats nearly 2 months old now but does not have coryza. She has not gone near my big chickens (the ones that are outside, but she has been living with the other one. i really would not want to cull her, she is really sweet but i doubt i will introduce her to my flock.

 

[dawg53]

We bought her from a local breeder and she came with one other chick thats nearly 2 months old now but does not have coryza. She has not gone near my big chickens (the ones that are outside, but she has been living with the other one. i really would not want to cull her, she is really sweet but i doubt i will introduce her to my flock.

You havnt described what symptoms she has relating to coryza. Surely the older bird would have been infected as well or else the older bird is the carrier and the chick caught the disease. Here's a link, scroll down to Infectious Coryza, it describes the symptoms etc...
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[dab89]

how much baytril 10% should i give her?

 

[dab89]

so should i not put either chick outside?

 

[dawg53]

how much baytril 10% should i give her?

A little less than 1/4cc orally.