Metronidazole 20% dosing

[chickdiane10]

Bingo pooped this under the roost bars last night. I poked it with a disposable knife, it's firm.
Source of infection or intestinal tissue? God forbid, lash egg

She had other droppings after this that had bulk, almost normal, but brownish green. Prob what a fed her by hand last night. As green indicates bile, not eating.

 

[chickdiane10]

That does look like it came from the reproductive tract. Are you still giving the Albon?

Yes 3 days of Albon so far.

I don't know if it's reproductive. It was just laying on the coop floor with the other droppings.

 

[chickdiane10]

It's also small compared to googled lash eggs. Maybe 1/4-1/2 inch thick x 1 inch long.
It's inside a clear baggie in this pic lol, not touching it....

 

[chickdiane10]

That does look like it came from the reproductive tract. Are you still giving the Albon?

Do you have any recommendations?
I've been doing Amoxicillin and Albon since Saturday.
She's tail up, scratching around, and eating like a normal chicken today. I'm going to check her crop tonight to see how she did.

 

[chickdiane10]

Do you have any enrofloxacin?

Would you know the dosage? I would put the powder into an empty gel cap to dose. I added a pic of the enrofloxacin package I have.

 

[chickdiane10]

I did 5 days of enrofloxacin. Finished 4 days ago.
Now this watery green poop. (See pic). 3 days ago she looked a bit off, but last 2 days she's been acting ok. Still eating/drinking.

Should I do another round of antibiotics?

 

[chickdiane10]

Figured I'd update because I always like to find resolution in searches.
I ended up doing 5 days of tiamulin last month. Followed by another fecal 2 weeks after that was done. Cappilaria present again so treated that. (Did the fecal bc she wasn't quite herself and had some yellow droppings).
She's been doing really well for several weeks. She was in the nesting box today and I think she laid an egg. She is crouching when pet and sang the egg song...has been a bit since she did that and laid an egg.

 

[chickdiane10]

Well I shouldn't have said anything. She's back to yellow capped poop.
Considering her history I should do enrofloxacin again

 

[Gildas mom]

How much does your hen weigh? That one amount of powder there has 856 mg of metronidazole.

Let us know how much the hen weighs and I will tell you how much powder to use.

Same issue. I just weighed 1 level tsp on my scale and it was 2 grams? My bird is 5 pounds...