Hen Losing Weight

[JensChickies]

To calculate the dose - weight of bird in pounds, divide by 2.2, times # of mg/kg you want, divide by number of mg/ml (your's will be 100mg/ml). Based on a 3.7 pound bird at 10mg/kg it looks like this:

• 3.7 ÷ 2.2 x 10 ÷ 100 = 0.168ml

At 6.75mg/kg:

• 3.7 ÷ 2.2 x 6.75 ÷ 100 = 0.11ml

Dose that make sense? Have your husband check my math, 'cause I do make mistakes!

-Kathy

Ok so if I want to do a once a day treatment....that would be 15mg/kg a day....so my math would look like this.....

3.7/2.2= 1.68 kg

1.68kg x 15mg/kg= 25.2 mg

25.2mg /100mg/ml = 0.25mL. !!!! Ha I did it!

I had to pull out the memory files from my radiation physics class...lol. I had to recall how units cancel out to get the unit your looking for. In this case it was mL!

So it's 0.25 mL once a day x 5 days.

Is this right?????? Lol.

 

[JensChickies]

Oooh man....I just noticed 20mg/kg once a day. That's ok...I can figure it out now.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I give both at the same time, along with Safeguard and sometimes metronidazole, so yes, you can give them together. FYI, neither lists the other as a drug interaction. Bayrtil should not be given with calcium and possibly some other minerals. If you're curious, look up the drug interactions for Cipro, it's in the same class of antibiotics, so whatever it says for Cipro will probably be true for Baytril.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote:

That is correct for 15mg/kg.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Oooh man....I just noticed 20mg/kg once a day. That's ok...I can figure it out now.

15mg/kg once a day is amount my vet has told me to use a couple of time, but she's also told me to use 20mg/kg once a day and 10mg/kg twice a day.

-Kathy

 

[JensChickies]

15mg/kg once a day is amount my vet has told me to use a couple of time, but she's also told me to use 20mg/kg once a day and 10mg/kg twice a day.

-Kathy

Thanks Kathy. I calculated 20mg/kg and gave it to her. I figured if it's calculated for her then it should be ok .....I think she needs it.

 

[casportpony]

20mg/kg is what I use most.

-Kathy

 

[JensChickies]

20mg/kg is what I use most.

-Kathy

Soooo tonight was her last round of baytril, but she has only improved a little. She will only eat her favorite treats, which is an improvement. Her poop is still green. Should I go longer longer with the baytril?? I gave it fir 5 days.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: How much are you tube feeding?

-Kathy

 

[JensChickies]

How much are you tube feeding?

-Kathy

Well bro ably every 4-6 hours. I go off of her crop.i don't want to over fill it, but I do 60ml and do every other feeding water then food so she stays hydrated.