Freaking out, maggots in vent

[la399]

We have just been syringe feeding her the supplement so far and she goes back to sleep right after. She normally loves mealworms and banana but no luck with that. I will try the egg and cat food, she might like those more. I’m thinking it’ll come back soon since she’s getting the dewormer now and all of the other meds.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

The amount passed through her eggs will be so small it most likely wouldn't matter. News flash! If you buy milk products and meat from the grocery store, they all have antibiotics in them, unless your buying strictly organic.

Milk does not have antibiotics in it. There is a holding time for antibiotics in conventional milk. I'm a dairy farmer who is now certified organic but let me tell you a story: The milk hauler who would pick up our milk would spit and throw trash around our milk room. We asked him to stop 3 different times, he wouldn't. So we turned him into our milk company. So when he picked up our milk the next time he put in a little "extra". Poultry antibiotic packet. Needless to say we got a call from our milk company who said that we owed them $10,000.00 for dumping all of the milk because it had antibiotics in it, and cleaning all of their equipment, and they wouldn't pick up our milk for a week! So that my friend is not true in the least....

 

[Folly's place]

You could try something like applesauce, tasty, has sugar, and of course liquid. Hang in there!
Mary

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Interesting they gave her a capstar. They must have given it recally, they do that for dogs and cats with flystrike. I'll remember that. I take it she tolerated it ok?

I'd like to add to BBT's post: Meat doesn't have antibiotics in it, either. Producers may use it, but they must withdraw it, and residue allowances are established. This is not so for egg-producing chickens.

 

[Folly's place]

And fluoroquinolones like Baytril aren't approved for any livestock here!
Mary

 

[Sue Gremlin]

And fluoroquinolones like Baytril aren't approved for any livestock here!
Mary

No, and not only that, but they're illegal to prescribe and administer to food animals.

 

[Folly's place]

That's right. There's a list of drugs that can't be used in livestock in the USA, and it's important.
Mary

 

[Eggcessive]

But many vets and individuals still use them (Baytril and fluoroquinolones) to treat pet birds, since many antibiotics will not treat E.coli and certain other bacteria that is seen in reproductive infections. Baytril is used in our other animals legally in the US, and in poultry in other countries.

 

[Folly's place]

That's true, but not best practice. We want to save our pet chickens regardless, but would be horrified if some commercial producer was caught doing the same thing.
And, on a small scale, may impact what bacteria live in our own environment.
It is something worth thinking about.
Mary

 

[Eggcessive]

I have never used Baytril myself, but when others ask for advice about how to treat certain infections, I like to offer the different possible treatments and let them decide for themselves. I am against using antibiotics unnecessarily, and am aware of antibiotic resistance in many infections that were once easily treated with a common antibiotic. But many of out friends here go to their American vets who still prescribe Baytril. Oddly, it is the only banned antibiotic for chickens that I know of. Others are not approved, but the FDA chose to ban this one drug in chickens, without banning others.