Dosage Help with Syringe

[amiller]

I am a newbie and have 35 chicks. I have recently learned that one of my chicks had worms. It has been treated by the vet and is doing 100% better. Now other chicks are showing the same signs. My vet has told me to treat them with Safeguard with the dosage based on their weight: .06cc per 4 oz of chick for the next three nights. Unfortunately, all the medication is not coming out of the syringe. For example, when I am dosing .06cc, some of the thick/milky medication is not going into their mouths but rather staying in the syringe and I'm not sure of what amount. I am using a 1cc syringe. Should I add extra medication to make up for this? I don't want to overdose my babies... but, I also want to make sure I give them the proper dosage to kill the worms causing the problems. Any advice would be most helpful.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

When you use a syringe, the syringe is designed to still have medication in the tip of it when the plunger has gone all the way to the bottom of it.

Hence, if you are administering for example 0.06 cc, after you push the plunger down all the way, medication will still be visible in the bottom of the syringe. This is already accounted for in the measurement on the barrel of the syringe. Don't give them more. It is "dead space" and doesn't count.
When you draw up the medication in the syringe and measure it, you must push all the air out of the syringe and get the liquid all the way to the very tip of the syringe, through the "dead space" and so it is starting to drip out. Then your 0.06 cc will be accurate.