INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[BantyChooks]

Banti they look small, what humidity you running? called SMZ-Med 454 this on hand or di-methox they are cheap


Soluble powder containing 100% sodium sulfamethazine per packet. Add 2 Tbsp to each gallon of drinking water of chickens for the control and treatment of infectious coryza, coccidiosis, acute fowl cholera, and Pullorum disease and turkeys for coccidiosis. Treats bacterial pneumonia, bacterial scours and E. Coli in swine. Treats cattle for bacterial pneumonia (BRD), shipping fever, foot rot, calf diphtheria, and acute mastitis.

28-38%, it keeps fluctating wildly (sometimes 24%- 45%) and drys out fast. Working on finding out why....

 

[mrleeroy]

@casportpony I want to thank you. I recently had a hen that got a nasty worm (she got very bad) and I was unable to get the valbazen, so I got the safeguard liquid and dosed as you suggested in another thread(can't remember which one). She's made a drastic turn-around and looks better everyday. I just wanted to say I appreciate all of the time you put into calculating dosages, and research you have done in treating avian ailments. I think you are invaluable here, and you made my stressful situation much easier. Thanks!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

28-32%, it keeps fluctating wildly and drys out fast. Working on finding out why....

are you sure your hygro is calibrated? how much water is in it now? surface area what are you using? how close to the water source is the hygro?

 

[rIrs roost]

Go billy!

As in the bator manual? Most of those things are junk.
-Banti

Yea. Think imma just search this thread on how to get started. Anyone have a good starting link?

 

[Saris]

@Saris

Albon Albon 5% Oral Suspension is Each tsp (5 ml) contains 250 mg Sulfadimethoxine.

go to TSC get a generic dont wait!

Albon susoension is just 5% sulfadimethoxine, so anything that's sulfadimethoxine will work.

Albon is prescription only, but DiMethox is not and a couple others are not. DiMethox comes as an injectable, liquid and powder.

• Albon Solution= 5% = 50 mg per ml
• Dimethox Solution = 12.5% = 125 mg per ml
• Dimethox injectable = 40% = 400 mg per ml
• Dimethox powder = one teaspoon probably weighs about 3 grams - will do the math on this one later.

In the meantime, can you dose him with a Corid drench? If you have the liquid, give 0.02ml undiluted per 100 grams orally. If you have powder, mix 1/2 teaspoon with 10 ml of water and give 0.07 ml per 100 grams orally. Give drench for 1-3 days in addition to his medicated water.

• Powder - no less than 1.5 teaspoons per gallon for 5 days, then 1/3 teaspoon for 7-14 days. Ignore any post that says to use less, 'cause it's wrong, lol.

• Liquid - 2 teaspoons per gallon for 5 days, then 1/2 teaspoon for 7-14 days.

Make a mash using the medicated water and his crumbles, that might be a good way to get more food, water and medication into him.

-Kathy

Thanks for all your tips guys. I'm trying to get back in touch with the vet to see what I can do since I can't get the sulfadimethoxine until Tuesday at the earliest. I'm gonna try and see if he will give directions on corrid powder or sulmet dosages for oral delivery.

 

[BantyChooks]

are you sure your hygro is calibrated?  how much water is in it now?  surface area what are you using?  how close to the water source is the hygro?

Calibrated it with salt test, it is 2% off. Water, hmm.... One large syringe, I'll go check how many ml it is. I am putting it in the trenches as there is no room for another thing, hygro is as the same lever as the thermo. It doesn't actually go up and down so much as I have to add water 2-3 times a day in really small amounts to keep it at the right humidity...
-Banti

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-w-friends-helpful-notes-links-informational-post-links

 

[BantyChooks]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-w-friends-helpful-notes-links-informational-post-links

By the time you read all that, you will be an expert on everything from getting a truck out of the mud, to microwave brownies and sticky chick!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I would take it down to 20- 25 and recandle in two days you only have four days to get them smaller and its better to do it now than when lockdown is

 

[rIrs roost]

There's no telling how many chickens the wonderful lady has saved. Kathy is one of the best period.