Correct dosage for sulmet?

[chilling in muscadine]

Thank's for the great links. I've got 7 chick's 3 week's old & 1 chick 4 day's old in the same room. One of the 3 week old chick's has blood in the poo. I noticed this late saturday night. I spent that night reading all the great thread's and decided maybe to treat for cocci. It took me awhile this morning to find a place open on sunday to purchase sulmet. Why do these thing's alway's happen when everything is closed. My old man went to pick the sulmet up and what he purchased say's for swine ONLY. He got it because he said he remembered seeing swine on the package of terramycin. This product was manufactured by Fort Dodge Animal Health. It's a 4oz bag and say's Aureomycin Chlortetracycline Bisulfate on one side of the bag & on the other side it say's Sulmet Sulfamethazine Bisulfate. I'm totally comfused now. Is this the correct med's????? I did NOT give to chick's. I spent the entire day checking the poo every few minutes
{I really gotta get a life lol} and no more blood. I know which chick the bloody poo came from and the chick is acting normal, eating,drinking & playing. What should I do???????? My feed store, that I trust will be open in the morning. I'm not panicking now since I haven't seen any more blood I just don't want my chick's to suffer because I don't have any knowledge on this subject.

 

[CUDA]

First off, if your chicks aren't on the ground, they won't have cocci. Second, it is normal to see a little red in the poo every now and then with chicks. You probably have nothing to worry about. Good luck!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

Thank's but my chick's have been on the ground during pretty day's. I'm pretty sure it was blood because I got some on me. I'm just going to watch them for now. These chick's were born here and taken from the hen's because the two mama's were fighting over them. They both sat on the nest and hatched them out. The chick's were getting hurt and stomped on. I brought them in the house when they were 2 day's old. I'm feeling a whole lot better about the situation now. Maybe I'll be able to sleep tonight. THANK'S EVERYBODY

 

[casportpony]

Regarding Sulmet Powder and SMZ-454 powder.

The directions say to mix the entire one pound bag into one gallon of water then to use 2 tablespoons of that one gallon for each gallon you make:


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I decided to post this here because someone on another thread mis-read the directions and made one gallon by using two tablespoons of the powder.

-Kathy