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Emailing them with my @tamuc.edu email might be more effective. lol
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Call them...it's free to ask.
@ColtHandorf My birds have responded very nicely to Gentamicin when they are showing respiratory distress but like most antibiotics you can only obtain it by prescription. 0.2ml every other day IM for a week. Walmart shows it available without prescription. About $30.
Baytril is even better but it is specifically not to be used in edible animals.
What does "IM for a week" mean? In-mouth? Intramuscular? So injection?
Gentamycin is not usually one of the drugs commonly used to treat mycoplasma (MG.) It has been used for many decades to treat E.coli in human bowel surgery and animal intestinal abscesses, but antibiotics that are used to treat MG are denagard, tylosin, enrofloxacin, and tetracyclines (doxytetracycline, oxytetracycline. ) Gentamycin can be toxic in higher doses. When I worked in hospitals, we always had to draw blood levels in patients on gentamycin to make sure that damage to ears and kidneys did not occur. There are much safer antibiotics that can be used.
Have you ever thought about having a sick bird tested by our state lab?Im providing my experience with these drugs not book references. If we are going by the book then we shouldn't even discuss using ivermectin as a wormer since it's not labelled for poultry.
Gentamicin is an aggressive antibiotic and any med you can also be fatal if given to in excess. Tylan at the correct dose can result in generalized tissue death at the site of the injection.
When the prognosis is dim I see no problem with being aggressive with meds. When the liklihood of that prize bird is going to die reaching for something outside the box is the right thing to do.
Since i started using gentamicin as both.an injection and as an eye drop 8n the case of foamy eye I've bern able to eliminate respiratory ailments in a week.
Have you ever thought about having a sick bird tested by our state lab?
Ivermectin shouldn't be used as a dewormer because it doesn't work.
Tylan should be given orally.