Peacock emergency

[casportpony]

@everyone, did I miss anything?

-Kathy

 

[Ersika]

Thank you so much, y’all are wonderful and have given me hope. To answer questions, when I move him he has been flopping his head about like he can’t always control it. After warming up for 2 hours on my lap, I left him to type this on a bed of hay in an XL dog crate and he held his head up watching me leave. He does still have a crest and no, his train has never amounted to much. I don’t see any sign of attack and I was nearby when he went into the tree last night.
I am experienced stomach-tubing newborn pigs, lambs and puppies so that is the route I will go after watching the video and running out for pediolyte. I’ll look into Safeguard for tomorrow.
Kathy, I have a bottle of liquid enrofloxacin 45.4 MG/ML compounded for a cat with a hazel cream (?) flavoring. It made the cat foam up at the mouth – the vet said that was because of the taste. Would you use that? It sure would be nice to be able to start him on that immediately.
Thanks again, running to town for pediolyte now-

 

[Trefoil]

yes, give him the enrofloxacin 45.4 MG/ML, hopefully Kathy will come on to help you figure out the dosage if you need help.

 

[thndrdancr]

Kathy post the pictures of a peas trachea or looking down throat from beak, I found that extremely helpful as well.

Also NO grape flavored pedialyte, something in it is toxic to birds.

 

[Ersika]

The tubing went well and I have my timer set to repeat in an hour. He is holding his head up, thank goodness. I forgot to try to weigh him and I suppose that is going to be necessary to figure the enrofloxacin dose.

 

[casportpony]

Oral bayytril can make them vomit, so I would give the 60ml of fluids, then wait 60-90 minutes to do it again and at that point give the Baytril. Has the Baytril suspension expired? Some compounded medication have a very short shelf life, but I don't know if that's one of them. Do you know how much he weighs?

The dose I use most often is 20mg/kg once a day for five days

1 ÷ 2.2 x 20 ÷ 45.4 = 0.2 ml per pound. A male peacock should weigh between 8.8 and 13.2 pounds, so he should get between 1.76 ml and 2.64 ml. It may seem like a lot compared to your cat, but the cat dose is only 5mg/kg because more than that can cause blindness in cats.

Does that make sense? Please double check my math.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I think I would get lots of fluids going first. See warning in this picture:



-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Maybe give half the dose twice a day?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Or 0.15 ml per pound once a day (15mg/kg)?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Everyone, please check my math, 'cause I'm feeling a little light headed today so there is a good chance I've made a mistake!

-Kathy