Help-Metronidazole water dose?

[Tereseb]

I have confirmed blackhead disease, by necropsy, in my Royal Palm turkeys.
I've lost several, mostly hens. Don't want to lose more.
I've separated all my turkeys from my chickens but have some turkeys with yellow or green feces. Or symptoms.
I've been treating their water with
metronidazole 750 mg/ gallon, using fish meds that contain prezaquel.
That hen improved. I just want to verify that dose. It seems high. I haven't been able to.find a source to verify that dose.
I don't feel comfortable oral dosing birds with a powder based med. That never seems to work out and I don't want my birds to aspirate.
Help appreciated!

 

[Eggcessive]

@casportpony is a better person to ask about blackhead and metronidazole dosage. She may check in here, but I think that she does not recommend putting it in the water, but to give each chicken an individual dose twice a day. I think also that 250 mg for every 5 pounds is about right, and that can be divided into 125 mg in the AM and the same in the PM. Some people say to just give it all once a day. Do you know a weight on the birds?

 

[Eggcessive]

Okay, I just read back over some posts, and Casportpony and others recommend 250 mg per kilogram, which is every 2.2 pounds. So, that would be closer to 125 mg per pound daily.

In an older post, @dawg53 recommended for turkeys, to give them 2 of the 250 mg tablets daily.

Getting a rough weight can help.


Edited to say that metronidazole should be given 250 mg daily to a normal size chicken, not 250 mg per kg.

 

[Tereseb]

How on Earth do you oral dose a bird without aspirating them?
I'm almost more comfortable giving an sub cutaneous injection.

 

[Tereseb]

Okay, I just read back over some posts, and Casportpony and others recommend 250 mg per kilogram, which is every 2.2 pounds. So, that would be closer to 125 mg per pound daily.

In an older post, @dawg53 recommended for turkeys, to give them 2 of the 250 mg tablets daily.

Getting a rough weight can help.

 

[Tereseb]

I'm using the fish meds that aren't in tablet form but in powder form. Any ideas here?
Should I Dissolve them into a few CC's then dose directly into the bird's mouth?

 

[Eggcessive]

You can try to put it into some water or yogurt. I am not sure it will disslove in water though, so just try it, a drop or two at a time. Yogurt will go through a syringe. If she will eagerly eat something like Friskies pate cat food, peanut butter,egg, or tuna, you can hide it in there. In the future, you can find FishZole online in 250 mg tablets. Here is a good link about dosing pea fowl, and it works with chickens as well:
https://unitedpeafowlassociation.org/articles/oral-medication-dosing-of-peafowl/

 

[Eggcessive]

I forgot to recommend that treating your birds for cecal worms (heterakis gallinarium worm) is necessary with blackhead. Valbazen 1/2 ml per 5 pounds once then in 10 days is good, and so is SafeGuard Liquid goat wormer or horse past 1/4 ml per pound for 3 days. Here is a link about the spread of blackhea in cecal worms:
https://www.northeastwildlife.org/disease/blackhead-disease

 

[Tereseb]

That was my next question. Is Valbazen the generic or trade name?

 

[Tereseb]

That peafowl link explains the oral dosing well enough to do the deed safely, thanks!