Limiting day light for EYP

[casportpony]

Go to Amazon or a pet store and purchase fish antibiotics. @casportpony recommends doxycycline in placement of tetracycline. She can give you dosages.

LofMc

Doxycyline instead of tetracycline or oxytetracycline, but for EYP I would use Baytril, which you can purchase without a prescription from numerous places. Google "baytril for birds" or "enfloxil".

Note that Baytril is banned for use in poultry, so people should research that before deciding to use it.

 

[centrarchid]

If you want to give antibiotics I strongly suggest that you get them from the vet that saw your hen.

I am a fish guy in a big way. As in day job. Get antibiotics from vet as indicated above. Rules on use of antibiotics increasing and for good reason.

 

[aart]

Note that Baytril is banned for use in poultry, so people should research that before deciding to use it.

I believe Baytril is banned in birds because of resistance to Campylobacter,
a pretty good reason IMO.

 

[casportpony]

I believe Baytril is banned in birds because of resistance to Campylobacter,
a pretty good reason IMO.

It is a good reason, but it's also the only easily obtainable drug that will treat most of the bacteria that are usually involved with EYP and/or salpingitis. I know that the use of Baytril is a "hot topic", but it's often the only affordable way to save the life of our pet birds.

 

[Goldnmine]

So if I get some tetracycline or doxycycline should I separate her while giving the medicated water or will be ok for all them? I'm thinking of separating her.

 

[casportpony]

So if I get some tetracycline or doxycycline should I separate her while giving the medicated water or will be ok for all them? I'm thinking of separating her.

Only the sick one should be medicated.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

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To the OP: Only the sick bird should be medicated. If you chose to do the Doxycycline rather than the Baytril, dosage appears to be 20mg/kg for Doxycycline placed in water for 3 to 5 days. Obviously you take a risk whenever self-treating a pet since you could do the animal greater harm. Self treating should be a last resort.

And yes, normally I would say go through a vet, but the owner tried that....many vets simply don't want to mess with chickens, so we owners are often left to our own devices and knowledgeable friends on BYC (there's a whole forum for that here).

Much of vet science for chickens caters to industry/commercial practices with most results in culling the bird if it does not perform.

And yes, over use of antibiotics is a concern for all. Since this bird is obviously not for the food chain in either egg or meat, but a pet, that gives the owner a bit of latitude.


LofMc

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18671073
https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart