Thyme, Hydrogen Peroxide or Metronidazole for small canker infection?

[ArtCaptain]

If they are average sized hens they can have 1/4 of your 500 mg tablet once a day for five days.

I think I might just give them that I suppose. I don't really know what the thyme is supposed to do but I know what that is so I hope it'll be safer. Anyways If I do give them that all I'll have to do is slice up the tablet into 4 pieces, dissolve it and give them to it with a syringe?

 

[ArtCaptain]

If they are average sized hens they can have 1/4 of your 500 mg tablet once a day for five days.

Except for the silkie since she's a bantam. I'll just go weigh em right now.

 

[casportpony]

Yea I live in the Inland Empire! I didn't know that we could take our animals to go get tested. I looked at the fee page and I'm going to assume that it'll be around $1 - $60 depending on what the hen has? Anyways I'll try to get pictures if one of my family members volunteers to take them while I hold their mouths open. However I'd estimate that the biggest yellow thing is no bigger than an eraser on a pencil.

You will need to call them and explain that some of your hens have this yellow stuff. I don't know if you can take them there or not, but I know you can take the yellow stuff there. An extreme option is letting them do a necropsy on one, and that would be $20, but would require you sacrificing a hen . If I were you I would figure out what they need to test the yellow stuff.

 

[casportpony]

Except for the silkie since she's a bantam. I'll just go weigh em right now.

She can have 1/8 tablet is she weighs two pounds.

 

[casportpony]

I think I might just give them that I suppose. I don't really know what the thyme is supposed to do but I know what that is so I hope it'll be safer. Anyways If I do give them that all I'll have to do is slice up the tablet into 4 pieces, dissolve it and give them to it with a syringe?

Just give the pieces of the tablet orally, like you wold if you were giving a pill to a cat or dog.

 

[ArtCaptain]

Just give the pieces of the tablet orally, like you wold if you were giving a pill to a cat or dog.

Woah a necropsy sounds a little too extreme! Luckily I live pretty close to San Bernandino so I'll give them a call. Anyways my hens weigh this much:
Egg (naked neck Amerucana mix that doesn't have a lot of canker, it's like a speck)- 3 1/2 lbs
Butters (Egg's sister, has canker on both sides of her mouth) A little more than 4 lbs. It was hard to tell since she kept moving around Cx
Snowball (silkie, has one canker sore on one side) A little less than 2 lbs.

So If I do the math right I'd give Egg 25+25+25= 75 mg. I'll probably do the same for Butters since she basically weighs the same (she fidgets too much).
For Snowball I'll probably give her just 25 mg or 50 mg since she's really small. That's a lot of cutting I'll have to do. Here's how big the tablets are

 

[Leihamarie]

The metronidazole dosage for canker is 50mg/kg for 5 days according to poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

If you wanted to administer individual liquid oral doses, you could completely dissolve 1/2 of a 500mg tablet in 2.5ml of water. This would give you 100mg/ml of medicated solution. Then take a 1cc (1ml) oral syringe and draw up 45.5 units for your 2lb silkie and 60.5 units for each of your Ameracaunas. Make a fresh batch for each dose administered and give them this dose for 5 days. Make sure to toss the eggs for 3 weeks after the last dose.

Be sure to give them time to swallow each beak full so they don't aspirate.

 

[casportpony]

The metronidazole dosage for canker is 50mg/kg for 5 days according to poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

If you wanted to administer individual liquid oral doses, you could completely dissolve 1/2 of a 500mg tablet in 2.5ml of water. This would give you 100mg/ml of medicated solution. Then take a 1cc (1ml) oral syringe and draw up 45.5 units for your 2lb silkie and 60.5 units for each of your Ameracaunas. Make a fresh batch for each dose administered and give them this dose for 5 days. Make sure to toss the eggs for 3 weeks after the last dose.

Be sure to give them time to swallow each beak full so they don't aspirate.

I've tried that, but the powder settles really quickly. Maybe it would stay suspended in a corn syrup/water mixture better?

 

[Leihamarie]

I've tried that, but the powder settles really quickly. Maybe it would stay suspended in a corn syrup/water mixture better?

That's a great idea. Also, have you tried warm water for dissolving and then allowing to cool before administering?

 

[ArtCaptain]

By the way @casportpony thanks so much for helping me so far! @Leihamarie Thank you for imparting your knowledge upon us! As luck would have it my father actually has a scale that can measure milligrams! So I'm thinking I'll grind up the tablet to however much it is I'll need and then mixing it up to a solution using warm water since that'll make it easier to dissolve. Do you guys know any warning signs I should watch out for just in case something goes wrong? I know that @casportpony said If i give them too much they can have seizures and potentially die. (I'll try to get the pictures of their mouths today!)