Help with Baytril dosage for duckling

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

I have a duckling who had trouble hatching and hatched with a small bill deformity and weak legs. It was doing all right, but now I think it's developed pneumonia. It breathes with its mouth open and I hear crackling noises.

Does anyone know what dosage I should give it of 10% enrofloxacin? And how best to administer it? The duckling weighs 2.05 oz.

Thank you!

 

[Jenbirdee]

I have a duckling who had trouble hatching and hatched with a small bill deformity and weak legs. It was doing all right, but now I think it's developed pneumonia. It breaths with its mouth open and I hear crackling noises.

Does anyone know what dosage I should give it of 10% enrofloxacin? And how best to administer it? The duckling weighs 2.05 oz.

Thank you!

@casportpony
@Eggcessive

 

[casportpony]

Sorry your duckling is sick.

2.05 ounces is too small to use the 10% enrofloxacin without diluting it first. Let me do some math.

 

[casportpony]

Add 0.5 ml enrofloxacin to 9.5 distilled water. It must be distilled because enrofloxacin binds with the calcium in tap or bottled water.

0.5 ml enrofloxacin + 9.5 distilled water = 10 ml at 5 mg/ml

2.05 ounces = ~58 grams
0.058 x 15 / 5 = 0.174 ml twice a day

 

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

Add 0.5 ml enrofloxacin to 9.5 distilled water. It must be distilled because enrofloxacin binds with the calcium in tap or bottled water.

0.5 ml enrofloxacin + 9.5 distilled water = 10 ml at 5 mg/ml

2.05 ounces = ~58 grams
0.058 x 15 / 5 = 0.174 ml twice a day

Thank you so much!

 

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

@casportpony is that 9.5 ml of distilled water? And then I give 0.174 ml of the blend twice a day?

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony is that 9.5 ml of distilled water? And then I give 0.174 ml of the blend twice a day?

Yes.