Need advice/help/experiences,Pekin female cough/voice changes now

[casportpony]

Quote: It also comes in a powder. OP has pills, which should be given orally.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Disclaimer: I am not a vet and have no medical background. This is not medical advice.

Now, I have never seen a recommendation for the use of an antibiotic beyond 10 days except for a prescribed second round of treatment for an additional 10 days. The only exception to this that I could find is if you are traveling in an active malaria area where treatment is recommended every day and for a period thereafter. I would absolutely seek a second opinion as to the treatment your vet has suggested. It seems that after 45 days of antibiotic treatment your duck would have little, if any, immune defence remaining and would be susceptible to any number of additional infections.

Since antibiotics may destroy any probiotics in your duck you should probably add probiotics to her diet for the treatment period. The easiest way to do this is to offer her plain, unsweetened, unflavored yogurt which is full of probiotics. I actually offer all my birds yogurt at least once a week and most of them love it.

Best of luck and keep us updated.

I'm not a vet either, but vets have prescribed some antibiotics for longer than two weeks with a couple of my birds. One was metronidazole for one month, the other was Clavamox for 14 days.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'll PM some info to you about it.

-Kathy

Thanks K.

 

[casportpony]

This link has doxycyline info and it appears that the 150 mg twice a day dose is withing the normal range when treating birds.
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/09_therapeutic_agents.pdf

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Before you worm her you need to weigh her and find out how much weight she has lost. I think you said she weighed 6.5 pounds at the vet, right? Problem is that once they lose too much weight it's almost impossible to bring them back without very serious supportive care, and by supportive care, I mean tube feeding 3-4 times a day and keeping her in a 80-85 degree room.

If she weighs less than 5 pounds I think she's in seriously bad shape.

-Kathy

Edited to add:
Of course I can teach you how to tube feed.

 

[casportpony]

Okay, so here's the deal... The Tylan you were giving her was no where near enough for a bird her size. I know many posts on BYC say to give 1/2 cc, but everything I have read indicates that it should be given at a much higher dose. If you go by what the info below says, she should have had 50 mg per pound per day, so that should have been a total of 6.5 ml per day. Everything I have read says that it's best to give it several times a day, so that should have been 6.5 ml divided by number times per day.

CRD indications:

• Administer medicated drinking water for three days; however, medicated water may be administered for one to five days depending upon severity of infection. Treated chickens must consume enough medicated water to provide 50 mg per pound of body weight per day. Only medicated water should be available to the birds.

Turkeys:

• Administer medicated drinking water for three days; however, medicated water may be administered for two to five days depending upon severity of infection. Treated turkeys must consume enough medicated water to provide 60 mg per pound of body weight per day. Only medicated water should be available to the birds.

 

[casportpony]

There are many things that could be causing her symptoms... It could be one or more of the following : E. coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, mycoplasma and more. The trick is finding the best antibiotic to treat all the possibilities. Tylan will usually treat mycoplasma, but not E. coli and pseudomonas aeruginosa. Doxycycline I'm not sure about, but something like Baytril or Cipro will treat all three of them.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

You posted in another thread and said she's not drinking much, right? So how much Denagard are you giving and how often are you giving it? Have you consults with your vet on how to give it?

As I said in another post, her white droppings could be from dehydration, and now that I have seen some of the other threads you posted in, I do think that's why.

-Kathy

 

[kari1981]

My vet finally gave in and prescribed her bayril. Her first dose was last night. Im praying bayril helps her. I also was given a antifungal med. Fulvicin. We been leaning more towards pnemonia to fungal infection over gapeworm. We tried qtip method but found nothung but then again i may not of went down far enough

 

[Miss Lydia]

My vet finally gave in and prescribed her bayril. Her first dose was last night. Im praying bayril helps her. I also was given a antifungal med. Fulvicin. We been leaning more towards pnemonia to fungal infection over gapeworm. We tried qtip method but found nothung but then again i may not of went down far enough

Relieved to hear your vet came through. I hope this will help her.