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So I have to order tri sulfa, and it won’t be here until Monday. It just dawned on me though, I have doxycycline 100mg capsules here at home. Could I mix with water and give them this?Call and ask. Any "cycline" will probably work. You can also call a pigeon supply shop and ask for pigeon sulfa.
The way a secondary infection works is a bacterium, usually a common garden variety germ like E.coli or salmonella, present in feces, will attack a sick chicken when their immune system is being hammered by the first bacterium. So now you are treating two different bacteria. All bacteria are not created equal, so while one antibiotic works on one, it often won't work on the second one.
When humans get sick, our doctor may test our poop or swab our throat to see what bacterium is making us sick and then tailor the antibiotic to the bacterium. But we often can't afford to do that for our chickens. So we guess according to the odds.
If it turns out it's a virus that's making us or our chickens sick, we are really up a creek because viruses often are shape shifters and that's why we can't treat most of them. It's just too hard due to their constantly changing nature to nail them down to develop a medicine for them. (Covid is an example)
I have actually been giving them predialyte and ensure per the vets instructions. As well as another supplement I had to order that I can’t recall the name of right now. It’s been helping a lot but they need the antibiotics to get better.Also try to get some nutrition in them try egg yolk with a teaspoon of electrolyte water in a syringe. Very carefully put a couple of drops on the side of the beak see if they will eat it and feed them that way. They need to eat and drink do the same with plain water.