Lazy Peachick

[enola]

According to my phone weather station it is 68 degrees in Kuwait right now

 

[Garden Peas]

I am confused. I thought he said he had them on Metronidazole earlier but not now? Is it still on the Valbazen as well?

I don't think it ever got the Valbazen. He started with the sulfadimethoxine, and as soon as he was able to get more meds, he started the metronidazole. So far the bird has had four days of the sulfa drug and 2 days of the metro. Nothing else yet.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I don't know how warm it is outside there in Kuwait right now. If it is not 27 - 30 C, the bird should come inside or be someplace where he can be kept warm until he recovers.

The bird is inside, just turned the heat lamps and now its 28 C.

 

[Garden Peas]

The bird is inside, just turned the heat lamps and now its 28 C.

 

[AugeredIn]

Ok, I understand. Still think the Metronidazole is the key. Food and water will certainly help the weakness in the video.

I thought from the question in Post 193 that the treatments were not ongoing.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

For tubing fluids, it will be best if you have something like Pedialyte or Gatorade. I do not know what brands you have in Kuwait. If you have something like a sports drink or electrolyte replenishing drink (but not one of those caffeine drinks!!), that will work.

Otherwise, you can use 1/2 tsp of sugar or corn syrup, dissolve it in 60 ml of water.

Please warm the fluids to 100F (37.5 C) so that you do not shock the bird. You want them to be at body temperature, not hotter not colder.

Please wait 1/2 hour after giving the antibiotic so the bird does not vomit it up. Then we are going to start with a smaller volume of fluids and repeat more frequently, again, so the bird does not vomit it up.

After you have waited 1/2 hour, tube 30 ml of the warm fluids into the bird.

Then, after you have tubed the first 30 ml, wait one hour to allow the fluids to be absorbed. (I am hoping the bird will start perking up once it is receiving fluids

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After you have waited the one hour, give a second round of 30 ml of the warmed fluids.

In all, you will give 120 ml of warm fluids broken up into 4 rounds with an hour interval between each round.

Then we can figure out what to do next. I think it will involve tubing baby food and more fluids, but for right now, let's see if we can keep the bird alive with the rehydration and baytril

I don't have fluids like this, i thought i'm going to use just water, its 20 minutes now since i gave him Baytril, so i can't mix water with their food?



Edited: i just read it again, i have Grinded corn will this work?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I don't have valbazen, never hear about it before!


Edited: What about albendazole? Should i give him now or what?

 

[Garden Peas]

I don't have fluids like this, i thought i'm going to use just water, its 20 minutes now since i gave him Baytril, so i can't mix water with their food?

Do you have sugar or corn syrup in the kitchen?

He needs fluids to replace what he is losing through the loose poop and not drinking enough.

 

[Garden Peas]

So if you put some fluids directly into his crop by tubing, that will help support him to survive.

 

[Garden Peas]

We add a little bit of sugar or corn syrup for the carbohydrates. Pedialyte and Gatorade also have electrolytes which help replenish what is lost. Pure water doesn't replace the electrolytes. So if you can add a bit of sugar or corn syrup to the water, and warm it to body temperature, that will help the bird get its fluid level back up.

If the bird becomes too dehydrated, it will die because its organs will shut down.