Chicken with bad infection on mouth/face (was Vitamin B complex injectable dosage for chicken)

[Kiki]

The product ordered (Durvet B Complex) is this:

1. Each mL contains:
   
   • Thiamine hydrochloride - 100mg
     
     
   • Riboflavin 5 Phosphate
     
     
   • Sodium - 5mg
     
     
   • Pyridoxine hydrochloride - 10mg
     
     
   • Niacinamide - 100mg
     
     
   • d-Panthenol - 10mg
     
     
   • Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) - 100mcg
     
     
   • Benzyl Alcohol - 1.5% (as preservative)
     
     
   • Water for Injection - qs
     

 

[casportpony]

math?
A friend of mine who's vet said the dosage for thiamine is 4mg per kg?

Each mL contains:

• Thiamine hydrochloride - 100mg

If you want to give thiamine at 4 mg/kg the math is 4.6 pounds / 2.2 x 4 / 100 = 0.08 ml. Does that make sense?

 

[Eggcessive]

@casportpony She weighs 2 kg right? So at 4mg per kg, she needs 8mg of thiamine. If the b complex is 100 mg of thiamine per ml, is that not 0.12 ml?

Yay?!? Lol
I should?

I misunderstood, so don’t give that. Please wait for @casportpony ’s instructions. Whew my brain is smoking...

 

[casportpony]

Sorry,

@casportpony She weighs 2 kg right? So at 4mg per kg, she needs 8mg of thiamine. If the b complex is 100 mg of thiamine per ml, is that not 0.12 ml?


I misunderstood, so don’t give that. Please wait for @casportpony ’s instructions. Whew my brain is smoking...

I thought I read somewhere that she is 4.6 pounds.

 

[Kiki]

I think we are all confused now!

 

[Kiki]

1st post =said she weighs 4.6 pounds.

 

[Eggcessive]

4 pounds is 2 kg.

 

[mitrian]

mg measures weight

ml measure volume of liquid.

Ok, I'm a few pages behind here, but I want to clarify this.

My chickens' vet said the dose of thiamine is 4mg/kg of chicken. My pullet weighs 1.25kg. So her dose would be 5mg. To convert that to mL, you need to know the concentration of the vitamin supplement! The bottle we had available was 500mg/mL, so her dose was 1/100 of that - 0.01mL. Which she got SQ, and she perked up shortly afterwards.

The 0.08mL calculation for the OP's hen is based on what we know is the correct dosage of thiamine, because when I was trying to look up info earlier on B vitamin dosage for chickens, there wasn't much that looked reliable. So, given the lack of better info, we were basing the math on the concentration of thiamine in the supplement she has.

 

[casportpony]

She weighs 4.6 lbs.
Thank you in advance

Convert pounds to kg - 4.6 / 2.2 = ~2.1 kg
kg times dose per kg - 2.2 x 4 = 8.4 mg
desired dose divided by number of mg in one ml - 8.4 mg / 100 mg = 0.084 ml

 

[ronott1]

Convert pounds to kg - 4.6 / 2.2 = ~2.1 kg
kg times dose per kg - 2.2 x 4 = 8.4 mg
desired dose divided by number of mg in one ml - 8.4 mg / 100 mg = 0.084 ml

Make it stop!

Math hurts....

for helping!

I hope the OPs hen is better soon.