Hugs for you and King Henry. I hope the medication kicks in and he starts feeling better soon. Thank you for the update.I took King Henry to the exotic vet today as there was no improvement at all after the 7 day treatment of Tylan.
The lesions have returned in his mouth but only a tiny amount can be seen and his face and eyes are still swollen.
The vet didn’t look over him as thoroughly as the first vet but said the plaque in his mouth indicated canker so he would need treatment for that.
He also thinks he still may have mycoplasma especially since 2 hens in my flock now have bubbly eyes (but have no other symptoms).
The vet said mycoplasma can take a long time to get over and he felt the 7 days of Tylan wasn’t long enough.
He gave me a 100g tub of Tylan and wants me to treat the flock again for 10 days.
King Henry’s medicine for his canker is metrobactin which is 250mg metronidazole per tablet. He has half a tablet twice a day for 10 days. This is much better, as the metronidazole I was able to get hold of myself was only 30mg per tablet so poor King Henry had to put up with 9 tablets a day.
I’m not sure what the next plan is if he doesn’t respond. He’s responded to the metronidazole before so hopefully he will this time and I hope the Tylan will finally work.
His ears look bunged up again and I asked the vet if I should try and clear them and he said to leave them. I think I will try though as I found the hydrogen peroxide very helpful when I used it last time.
King Henry and his girls have just started moulting too! Not what they need right now.
I will update again!