Has anyone tried Morning Bird Enrotex Broad Spectrum Antibiotic Bird Supplement for very mild case of chronic respiratory disease/Mycoplasma gal.?

[henspotter]

Hi all! My almost five year old hen has been experiencing a sneezing issue for about a month and a half to two months now and I feel like only recently her breathing got a little worse. The thing is, I really cannot tell if she has mg or something stuck in her throat/nares because she isn't exhibiting any other signs of mg like a swollen face, runny nose or eyes. Though for all I know, perhaps mg is a very slow disease and she's been ever so slowly getting worse. That being said, someone else with a similar issue w their hen on Reddit ended up giving their hen, Morning Bird Enrotex Broad Spectrum Antibiotic Bird Supplement, and her bird made a full recovery! I wanted to know if anyone else has any experience with it or if you think this would work for my bird's hard to pinpoint case? Thank you!!

 

[Eggcessive]

Entrotex looks like it is enrofloxacin or baytril, but I am not sure that the strength is the same as what can treat bacterial and mg infections. If she has only sneezing, and no other symptoms of mg, such as bubbles in eyes, swelling of eyelids, gasping, or lethargy, she might have a virus, such as infectious bronchitis, which will run it’s course over a month and does not respond to antibiotics.

 

[henspotter]

Entrotex looks like it is enrofloxacin or baytril, but I am not sure that the strength is the same as what can treat bacterial and mg infections. If she has only sneezing, and no other symptoms of mg, such as bubbles in eyes, swelling of eyelids, gasping, or lethargy, she might have a virus, such as infectious bronchitis, which will run it’s course over a month and does not respond to antibiotics.

Yeah I was barely able to find any posts on others using Enrotrex on their hens, but one of the few that I did find mentioned the same thing about its strength. That's actually the reason I got it because it seemed like a good in between since my hen isn't exhibiting all of the big symptoms of MG. I do have a question though, not sure if you will have any insight. I must have missed this on the package online, but now that I've got the bottle in person it says, "Not for use in birds whose meat or eggs are intended for consumption". I know some people out there have used this on their hens and it seemed to work fine, but that statement still worries a little of course. I feel silly asking because it seems like the obvious response would be to just not give it to your hen and listen to what the directions say, but do you have any insight what the implications of this might mean? Like perhaps it's just being said because you're not supposed to eat the eggs of chickens who are on antibiotics or is there something greater I could be missing?

I'll keep a close eye and keep in mind what you said about the infectious bronchitis! Thank you!

 

[KDP123]

Yeah I was barely able to find any posts on others using Enrotrex on their hens, but one of the few that I did find mentioned the same thing about its strength. That's actually the reason I got it because it seemed like a good in between since my hen isn't exhibiting all of the big symptoms of MG. I do have a question though, not sure if you will have any insight. I must have missed this on the package online, but now that I've got the bottle in person it says, "Not for use in birds whose meat or eggs are intended for consumption". I know some people out there have used this on their hens and it seemed to work fine, but that statement still worries a little of course. I feel silly asking because it seems like the obvious response would be to just not give it to your hen and listen to what the directions say, but do you have any insight what the implications of this might mean? Like perhaps it's just being said because you're not supposed to eat the eggs of chickens who are on antibiotics or is there something greater I could be missing?

I'll keep a close eye and keep in mind what you said about the infectious bronchitis! Thank you!

Did you ever get an answer about eating the eggs while the chickens are on antibiotics? I’m about to start all 3 of my back yard chickens on it (one of them has got the eye bubbling, face swelling and crusting, and can’t open one eye). And I was just going to discard all the eggs while they’re on them.

 

[Tonyroo]

There's a time frame of when the antibiotic stay in the system, but like all medications the body flushes it out eventually.

 

[Eggcessive]

Did you ever get an answer about eating the eggs while the chickens are on antibiotics? I’m about to start all 3 of my back yard chickens on it (one of them has got the eye bubbling, face swelling and crusting, and can’t open one eye). And I was just going to discard all the eggs while they’re on them.

For antibiotics similar to Baytril or enrofloxacin, since they are banned for chickens, there is no standard egg withdrawal time. The studies that I found are older and answers vary. But I would think that waiting a month would be plenty of time to wait on eating the eggs.

You should only medicate the one bird showing symptoms. I also would recommend giving the medicine orally instead of in the water. Which product are you using?