Need Help with Star This is her Poop

[KayTee]

If you can find amoxycillin then the dosage you need is 20mg of pure amoxycillin per kg (2.2lb) live weight of your bird. It's only approximate, so calculate around 10mg per 1lb of bird. Tablets for humans usually come in large doses - 500mg or more, and you are only going to need around 40mg per day, if your bird is around 4lb.

The best thing to do is therefore to break a tablet in half, giving you 250mg, crush it into powder, and sprinkle it into 50ml of water. If you mix it well, and give her 10ml of water a day then you are giving her a 50mg dose, which is about right for a 4lb bird. You need to make sure that she takes it all - either by dripping it onto something that she will eat (a piece of bread, some boiled rice, mixed in with cooked egg etc), or by syringing it drop by drop onto her beak and letting her swallow it. (Don't try and force it down her throat - you can accidentally force water into her lungs and that would kill her.)

If you don't want to use water then sprinkle the powder onto food, and divide it into the right number of portions to give 10mg per 1lb weight of your bird per day.

Good luck with your girl - let us know how you get on.

 

[RaisinAFlock]

Thank you so much for your help sorry I could not get back to you sooner Thursday is always my busiest day of the whole week I haven't had the chance to check to see if I have antibiotics yet but the good news is star is hanging in there today she is eating straight powdered feed on her own and I am giving her electrolytes and probiotics with a syringe and also plain water. She is more alert today. And she is really curious as to what is going on outside with the rest of the flock when I left the door open for a minute. My neighbors rooster wandered over to my property and was free ranging with my chickens and he mounted one of my hens and squabbled with my alpha rooster, so I had to tell my chickens to leave the area lol and do you think they listen to me? Nope lol

 

[RaisinAFlock]

Here's her poop now

 

[RaisinAFlock]

More solid less runny but still green

 

[Cacique500]

I'm going through this with one of my barred rock hens right now. Explosive, very watery diarrhea (and gas) with little bits of undigested grain in it. She was very listless for the first few days (took me awhile to figure this one out), wouldn't eat her favorite treats, and was just acting "off". Was drinking a TON of water.

I'm thinking it's Clostridium Perfringens based on some other threads I read. Started her on Tylan Soluble this morning and will keep dosing their water for 5 days and see if it clears up. Got our Tylan on Amazon.

 

[RaisinAFlock]

I have, clindamycin 150, doxycyline100,metronidazole500,Augmentin 875-125 (amoxicillian-clauvanate acid) been researching trying to figure out the best one to give her, and work out the correct dosage.

 

[RaisinAFlock]

I ended up going with Amox-clav, I am dosing her 1/4 pill, aprx 218.75 mg crushed to powder, mixed with a syringe full of water every 8 hours, and continuing to give her her regular feed but the fine powdered feed parts, yogurt, water, save a chick electrolyte & probiotic water in rotation, liquids before water. Manual fluids every hour, then once every 6-8 hours with water provided to her at all times. I've stopped bathing her with Epsom salts yesterday. She's eating feed on her own. But not drinking on her own.

 

[RaisinAFlock]

I'm not certain if that is the correct dosage or not, because its clearly 4 times the doseage amounts that you stated but another BYC thread had a similar dosing to 1/4 tablet every 8 hours. So I went with that. If I've made a mistake and someone thinks I'm giving her too much, please let me know. Thank you!

 

[RaisinAFlock]

Just for future reference a combo of clindamycin and metronidazole is suppose to effective as another option in case you don't have any amoxicilian to treat your bird(s) as well as doxycyline, each one of these antibiotics are listed as effective treatments for clostridium. As well as erythromyacin, but which I don't have. I had a hard time deciding on what one to try, but my gut told me to go for a stronger dose of penicillin. So that's what I did. Thanks again to everyone who helped me and I hope my pictures help other folks and birds.

 

[casportpony]

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I'm not certain if that is the correct dosage or not, because its clearly 4 times the doseage amounts that you stated but another BYC thread had a similar dosing to 1/4 tablet every 8 hours. So I went with that. If I've made a mistake and someone thinks I'm giving her too much, please let me know. Thank you!

How much does she weigh?

-Kathy