The chicken medicine cabinet. Help create a helpful thread!

[Riocotesei]

Thanks Joe thats very helpful!

 

[police]

could someone tell me how much pol-vi-sol to use.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

How weird, I just started a "medicine kit" for the chickens. We have one for the horses, but they are such robust creatures. Chicken are not so robust.

I have VetRX.
I also have oxytetracycline (tetracycline) from the feed store. Terramycin = (oxytetracycline)

Sulfadimethoxine (coccidial infections)

Sulmet = Sulfamethazine sodium (coccidial infections and Coryza)

Aureomycin = Chlortetracycline: A TETRACYCLINE with a 7-chloro substitution for fowl cholera(Pasteurella multocida), Infectious Synovitis (Mycoplasma synoviae), Chronic Respiratory Disease (Air-sac infection), Mycoplasma gallisepticum and E-Coli. Infectious Coryza, Coccidiosis, Acute Fowl Cholera, Pullorum (egg-transmitted disease of poultry caused by the bacteria Salmonella pullorum).

Tylan = Tylosin. An antibiotic in the macrolide class. Other members of this class of antibiotics include erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin, spiramycin, and dirithromycin. (Chronic Respiratory Disease caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum).

I would use "Sulmet" and Aureomycin before I used Tylan, but I have heard that Tylan works when Sulmet wont. You can get Tylosin at the feed store, it is expensive.

I use Lincomycin sparingly as it is expensive. An antibiotic derived from cultures of the bacterium Streptomyces lincolnensis, used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections

From what I can gather; Sulfadimethoxine, Sulfamethazine sodium, oxytetracycline, aureomycin and Lincomycin are really all we chicken lovers have to fight secondary infections. The viral infections have to run the course and hopefully the flock will recover.

I have disposable gloves, cotton balls, syringes, rubbing alcohol, peroxide and wonder dust.

The wonder dust is a horsey medicine for wounds, it really is a great product.

I also plan on obtianing sterile petre dishes with media for culturing these dieseases I can not diagnose.

I ran across a nice website that may help.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PS044#

It has tables of symptoms and a possible diagnosis.

The internet and this forum are probably the best medicine for the flock !!!

 

[AngelzFyre]

Police,
Welcome!

The dosage for the Poly Vi Sol Drops(without iron) is 3 drops along the beak per day for a week, then taper for the next week. I've also given it once a week for the next 3 to 4 weeks after that just to be sure everything was okay.
It's amazing how quickly the results show and how well they do!

 

[ChickaD]

Police,

Glad to have you aboard!

 

[Riocotesei]

I' glad this thread was brought back up. I really think the mods should sticky something like this. It's super useful. With chickens you have to be prepared before hand cause they can go down hill so fast.
I lost 2 all the sudden today to a mystery problem. They were fine this morning and then all the sudden...dead. It sucks.
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but everyone that adds to the list, if the medication isn't made for chickens post the amount that is needed per gallon or CC's or whatever the medication is.
Thanks everybody!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Is that for chicks, or adult birds?

 

[Mrs MIA]

Another board I post on is the Happy Hen House. The emergency section has a medication list that is da bomb.

http://happyhenhouse.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=meds&action=display&thread=6738

Police, you asked me about Ivermectin... if you go to the link above and scroll down to the second list with the medications, and go to the "I"s... you'll find the information on it.

The first list consists of links to help pages, and under the "I"s there's one on Ivermectin overdose.
Hope that helps.

 

[MrsSmitho]

Hello all! Adding and making sure this wonderful post keeps going!

You guys are really awesome for us newbies.

As it stands, anybody wondering about the vinegar de-wormer,
it is non pasturized apple cider vinegar with the "mother" bacteria.

I read it on a newer post and purchased some at a health food store.

It is kinda spendy, and I plan on making my own next time...also found on a thread osmewhere on here

Also: on the VetRx stuff...I saw a thread and there was some calling of companies to determine there isn't really any antibiotic in it...

The search engine on here is wonderful too

THANK YOU!!! so much for being people loving to share in the joys and frusterations of chicken raising!!!!!

I am so impressed and never thought there was so much to know! I love learning from people who have done it and you folks are awesome

MrsSmitho

 

[Riocotesei]

Yay my thread is alive again

Thanks for the info
I've heard that about the VetRx too...of course after I bought it lol.
Glad to hear the thread is helping!