oxytetracycline dosage (metric system)

[Naisha]

Hello! I have to give Oxytetracycline to my 4 cochin bantams for Coryza and I’m a bit lost with the dosage. Let’s see if you can help me understand. Each of my chickens weighs around 400g, they’re small. So in total they’re around 2kg.
The box says “400mg of product per kg of animal per day”.
So if they’re 2kg they need to take 800mg a day in total. But! I don’t know how much water they drink. And what is 800mg in “coffee spoons”? Something I can visualize, I can’t weight 800mg at home.

In the box it also says that once you’ve mixed it with water for them to drink it can be there for a day but not more, so it should be as accurate as possible.

Thank you guys

 

[pekin queen]

Hello! I have to give Oxytetracycline to my 4 cochin bantams for Coryza and I’m a bit lost with the dosage. Let’s see if you can help me understand. Each of my chickens weighs around 400g, they’re small. So in total they’re around 2kg.
The box says “400mg of product per kg of animal per day”.
So if they’re 2kg they need to take 800mg a day in total. But! I don’t know how much water they drink. And what is 800mg in “coffee spoons”? Something I can visualize, I can’t weight 800mg at home.

In the box it also says that once you’ve mixed it with water for them to drink it can be there for a day but not more, so it should be as accurate as possible.

Thank you guys

Hmm i am not to good at this sort of thing but...i think mg is milligram,i dont know what to do with your water thing so i am not going to try helping with that but...i hope this helps

 

[Naisha]

Yes it’s milligram. The thing is I can’t really visualize how much is “almost one gram” of that product. Let’s see if someone has experience with that kind of medicine.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you post a picture of your oxytetracycline including the label?

 

[Naisha]

It’s all in spanish I’m afraid. The dosage says 400mg of product per kg of animal per day, but it doesn’t really explains anything else, just what it is for and warnings.

 

[Eggcessive]

Does it say Tetroxy anywhere on the label or say that it has 280 grams? If so, the dosage would be 3/4 of a tsp per every gallon of water for 7 days. Does this label below look similar?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7104679/

 

[Naisha]

The whole package is 100g and it says it’s 50mg/g of oxytetracycline.

Okay my partner and I have more or less understood that one gram of the product is one coffee spoon (the small ones). So every day we’ll mix that amount with the water we think they’ll drink, not with 1L of water.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is another link that you can read to see if it sounds familiar, and they are recommending 3/4 of a teaspoon to each gallon or 4 liters:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tetroxy-hca-280.1212797/