Ear/Sinus Infection?

[Ponypoor]

Yeah, you're probably a lot colder than we are. I'm all the way down in Iowa. I mean... it's been colder here. But this cold snap is settling in for quite some time. Good luck with yours! We've got about 30-some in a big hoop house I built this fall. It's working out pretty well. Keeps the wind off of them and when there's a little sun, it warms up pretty well.

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I started the Tylosin this morning. I was comparing pictures and her swelling and what-not isn't getting any better. Bought a small heated bowl at the farm store yesterday and tested it overnight. Kept it perfectly liquid. So that will make things easier and keep the meds in front of her for longer at a time. Actually, I just wish I could make a little paste of Tylosin and her feed into a little ball and feed it to her. I've never liked meds in water, seems like it's difficult to know dose is getting to them. And always wondered if them being in water messes with their efficacy.

Her crop felt more solid last night. I think maybe I'm just feeling it at a time when she hasn't eaten recently enough. Here she is last night.
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Awwww poor wee gal, sure hope she turns a corner soon. The cold cannot be good for her, how is her weight? Do you have a way to give her some supplemental heat? To help her along.

I weigh Tylosin on a kitchen scale that does grams - I have an old pill bottle with a snap lid, I put that on the scale and turn it on.

Then I start slowly adding tiny amts of the Tylosin powder to the bottle. Dose is 100mg/kg.

So 0.1gram (0.1g) for a kg of weight (2.2 lb in a kg)

My silkie Roo is 1.4kg but I rounded it up to 2 kg so that is 4.4 lb.

He gets 0.2g (200mg) daily for 7 days. I split this morning and night when he gets it.

Mixing Tylosin is hard, I use a bit of warm water (to make mixing easier) in a 1 gallon water bottle when I dose the whole gang - put the Tylosin in the 1 gallon bottle, add a cup or so of warm water put the lid on and shake the crap out of it. Once it’s all dissolved then add rest of water to make a gallon.

If your doing it by weight add a few ml’s (cc’s) of warm water to the weighed Tylosin in the small pill bottle, snap the lid on and shake the crap out of that.

I use a 1cc insulin syringe (without the needle of course!) and I ‘tube feed’ my Roo with the weighed mixture - if you don’t know how to tube feed then just get her to take a bit at a time.

Anyway you look at it, having pets is a lot of work. Esp in the winter.

 

[jwcarlson]

Awwww poor wee gal, sure hope she turns a corner soon. The cold cannot be good for her, how is her weight? Do you have a way to give her some supplemental heat? To help her along.

I weigh Tylosin on a kitchen scale that does grams - I have an old pill bottle with a snap lid, I put that on the scale and turn it on.

Then I start slowly adding tiny amts of the Tylosin powder to the bottle. Dose is 100mg/kg.

So 0.1gram (0.1g) for a kg of weight (2.2 lb in a kg)

My silkie Roo is 1.4kg but I rounded it up to 2 kg so that is 4.4 lb.

He gets 0.2g (200mg) daily for 7 days. I split this morning and night when he gets it.

Mixing Tylosin is hard, I use a bit of warm water (to make mixing easier) in a 1 gallon water bottle when I dose the whole gang - put the Tylosin in the 1 gallon bottle, add a cup or so of warm water put the lid on and shake the crap out of it. Once it’s all dissolved then add rest of water to make a gallon.

If your doing it by weight add a few ml’s (cc’s) of warm water to the weighed Tylosin in the small pill bottle, snap the lid on and shake the crap out of that.

I use a 1cc insulin syringe (without the needle of course!) and I ‘tube feed’ my Roo with the weighed mixture - if you don’t know how to tube feed then just get her to take a bit at a time.

Anyway you look at it, having pets is a lot of work. Esp in the winter.

I have one of the chick heater plates above her dog crate. It's not a ton of extra warmth, but she seems to be doing OK. I have thought about moving her into the hoop house. I'd be able to isolate her within that. But the temperature swings in there can be fairly drastic depending on what we have going on weather-wise.

I have not weighed her, but she has certainly lost weight. I think Chantecler chickens are quite a bit smaller than Orpington hens, which is what I'm used to. So it might be that she's just a little bit smaller than what I'm used to. I can weigh her if I find my luggage scale.
She sure eats and poops a lot. So, I think that system is working well. Though there could be something keeping her from gaining weight. I've been giving her 10-15 pieces of corn split between morning and evening in this cold.

I don't want to tube feed her, I've not done it myself, but when I was a kid we'd occasionally tube feed baby birds. We had a single cockatiel, so I have no idea why we were doing that. But... I'd like to be easier. I think if I could make it a paste and roll it into a ball or something, I'd be able to get her to eat it pretty easily. Actually, just a mash might work. I have a gram scale, so that would be pretty easy to do.

Tylosin certainly didn't want to mix too well, but I just did what I normally do with her electrolytes. Warm water in a quart jar with space for good "sloshing" and then shook a snot out of it. Topped it off. So basically, what you describe.