OXINE seems fabulous. Users please share usage, dosage, storage, etc.

[Stargazer farm]

I've been reading the many different previous posts concerning Oxine and I'm trying to get all the different variations of methods of usage put into one single thread.  This could then serve as a practical resource and we can then each decide how best to use this stuff for our small backyard flocks.


My ten questions concern UNACTIVATED Oxine.  Unactivated means you are NOT adding any citric acid to the Oxine/water solution.


From my reading of previous posts, unactivated Oxine, diluted with water in proper solution concentrations, is entirely safe for humans and animals and chickens and other poultry, both for drinking and for application to skin and feathers, and for inhaling.  (Activated with citric acid, Oxine becomes dangerous to use and requires you to implement several precautionary steps.)

SOLUTION DILUTION:  I'd like to know what dilution concentrations you're using for UNACTIVATED Oxine when you mix up a solution for:

1- A quart-sized spray bottle, for spraying the roosts, bedding and walls inside the coop, as a general preventative sanitizer once a week. (If not once a week, what schedule are you using?)


2- A quart-sized spray bottle, for spraying the chickens directly onto their feathers, and for lifting their feathers and spraying onto their skin all over their body, face and legs and feet as a general preventative sanitizer once a week. (If not once a week, what schedule are you using?)


3- A quart-sized spray bottle, for spraying the bottoms of the shoes of any people visiting your backyard, as a biosecurity precaution.


4- A cool mist vaporizor, set inside the coop, to "fog" the air (using the UNACTIVATED Oxine) that the chickens breathe all night long while they're confined to their coop, as a preventative lung sanitizer once a week.  (If not once a week, what schedule are you using?)


5- A cool-mist vaporizor, set inside the coop, to "fog" the air (using the UNACTIVATED Oxine) that the chickens breathe to treat respiratory troubles (coughing, sneezing, gurgly breath sounds).  What schedule do you use?  Do you lock them in the coop and do this cool-mist vaporizor "fogging" several times a day?  For how many minutes each session?  For how many days?   I'm assuming that the vaporizor is used, instead of the sprayer, because the droplets emitted from the vaporzor are much smaller (and therefore able to be inhaled) than the droplets emitted from the sprayer, even when the sprayer is set to the smallest size droplets. 


STORAGE CONTAINER:

6- Does the diluted solution in the spray bottle need to be kept in an OPAQUE spray bottle to prevent decline in its effectiveness?  I'm assuming a spray bottle of solution may last a few weeks, so do you use opaque spray bottles, or do you wrap your clear spray bottles in opaque material?   Or is a clear bottle just fine? 

WEATHER WORTHY CONCERNS:

7- Can I keep the large gallon jug of the concentrate in an outdoor shed year round or will it be affected by summer heat or a winter freeze?


8- Can I keep the spray bottle (that's holding the diluted solution) in an outdoor shed year round or will it be affected by summer heat or a winter freeze?

INTENDED GOALS:

9- Besides killing all mold, fungus, viruses, and bacteria, and besides banishing all bad odors, have you found it effective against lice and mites?  If so, is that from spraying the chickens or is it from using the cool-mist vaporizor in the coop?


10- Have you seen it affect the fly population in the coop at all?   If so, is that from spraying the coop and bedding or from using the cool-mist vaporizor in the coop?

 

[Stargazer farm]

I need to talk to you. I'm having trouble understanding the format of posting. My email is America [email protected]. I'm going to start using oxine in two days when it Arrives at my farm. I want to start talking to you first regarding how you were successful with it. I have very sick chickens
When I bought the gallon they also have a buy one get one free of the powder with citric acid and I'm nervous about that after reading your blog on how to use it

 

[Sentience]

May have been answered, but, where do you get this? I'm in Dallas so prefer to pickup locally.


Thanks

 

[PoultryPedia]

I think very, very few stores carry Oxine. You would have to order online. There is a seller on Amazon--I believe it's Revival Animal Health.
If you are going to "activate" the Oxine, you can either use citric acid, or natural acid such as vinegar will work as an activator. I really don't know the appropriate concentration level for vinegar, though.
I have used Oxine a number of times over the past 3 years. I put pretty strong trust in it for cleaning or misting to kill fungi, bacteria, etc. I didn't noticed improvement with the 3 chickens I treated by misting the air with unactivated Oxine, though. They had chronic Mycoplasma Gallisepticum ("MG" respiratory disease) and low-level Infectious Coryza (another respiratory disease).
I have recently read about using diluted vinegar in the air as a treatment.
Quote: There are sites with other details on this, too. Apple cider vinegar "with the mother" (such as Bragg's brand vinegar) is what people usually recommend for health treatments. I wonder if misting would also bring good benefits?
I have also read that you do need to be careful to dilute the vinegar sufficiently--you would need to look up more info on that. I know if your eyes sting, that definitely is too concentrated.
I don't know how much the vinegar (either in air or their drinking water) would end up helping, and maybe Oxine would actually help them.

but wanted to pass on some possibly helpful ideas.
I wish you the best and hope your chickens are doing better soon! It's good they have you as a careful owner to look into ways to treat them!

 

[LittlePeck]

I'm glad indeed to see this thread, since I have a situation that needs to be resolved rather quickly. I've removed all my chickens who had Marek's and now I need to treat several rather large coops with Oxine. Can anyone help me determine how much, what dilution and how to apply? I already have some new chicks, but of course they'll have to wait until the coops are treated and they get old enough.

 

[PoultryPedia]

Maybe the manufacturer could provide some info--
http://www.bio-cide.com/contact/

 

[Fosmorefarm]

I have a nebulizer and oxine already but I need to find out how much to dilute it. Has anybody used this in a nebulizer before? What is the doseage?

 

[amanda1]

Is there any way to use the oxine to treat a lung fungal infection without the mister? I don't have one but have a hen suspected of fungus in her air sacs. The vet gave me fluconazole to drop in one nostril each day, but didn't sound too hopeful it would work. The vet also said she had not heard of oxine! If this doesn't work, I might like to try oxine but feel isolating her would be too stressful. Has anyone had success with a different way to administer it for the lungs?

 

[Fosmorefarm]

I used Oxine in a nebulizer in a covered cage 3 times a day along with Denagard. I only had one that did not respond well to treatment. I have heard of using it in spray bottle to lessen the amount of germs on the bird. Makes sense that a preening bird is less likely to reinfect themselves.

 

[chitownhens]

This hen has been sick for the last 5 weeks. After the 1st week she was at the point where she could barely stand, and wasn’t eating or drinking. The last night of that first week I thought she would be gone in the morning. She seemed to be overheating when the temperature inside is only 70 degrees. She went to her box and maneuvered herself is such a way that she was halfway over the side with her wings slightly elevated and she was walking that same way with her wings up in the air as if she was extremely overheated. I gave her 1cc of Tylan 50 as a last resort. To my surprise she was up and standing the next day and I continued the antibiotics for the next 7 days. She appeared to get better but she has been off and on. Symptoms include very pale eyes and comb. The comb appears to be shrinking and one night she pooped very green but only one night. She also seems to have stopped laying and the few she did lay towards the beginning of all this were shelless. I had her back with the flock and she eats but very little. No one is picking on her even though she is very listless. Brought back inside today. Not sure if I should try the Tylan again or something else. She is only about 2 years old and was one of the strongest from her bunch that were mixed with the rest of the flock when she was about 12 weeks old. She seemed to have aged 100 years in the last few weeks. She does manage to clean herself and sometimes she seems okay and other times not so much.

BTW when this all started she was what I would describe as slightly different from the rest of the hens when I would pick her up and she has always been this way. Very large on her backside unlike the other hens. In fact as she started to get better she could not lay on her side when outside. She tried but couldn't do it until that night where she appeared to have some type of fever at the end of the first week. She was then noticeably smaller and that week she could roll on her side in the sun.

I also had another hen that got sick and went blind for a few days during this time and has been slowly recovering. Vision is not 100% but much better she just can't focus when hand fed. Bottom video in case it might be related.

My question is do you think it’s possible that this is a fungal infection? BTW pic not properly dated. Thank you for looking.






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