Thyme, Hydrogen Peroxide or Metronidazole for small canker infection?

[Leihamarie]

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!)[/QUOTE

Please be careful, scales measure weight not content. The mg content of medicine will not match the mg weight of the tablet. the tablet itself wouldn't weigh 500mg, though the tablet contains 500mg of metronidazole. Does that make sense? Consider a Motrin 800 is about the same size tablet yet has very different mg of active medical compound. If you give each chicken it's dose after weighing out the mg on the scale, you'll likely overdose them.

I would go with either quartering the tablet or finely grinding 1/2 the tablet and make a fully dissolved solution with 2.5 ml of warm water (or as @casportpony has recommended- a corn syrup solution), this way you have 100mg of metronidazole per 1ml of liquid solution (if it's FULLY dissolved).

 

[Leihamarie]

Please be careful, scales measure weight not content. The mg content of medicine will not match the mg weight of the tablet. the tablet itself wouldn't weigh 500mg, though the tablet contains 500mg of metronidazole. Does that make sense? Consider a Motrin 800 is about the same size tablet yet has very different mg of active medical compound. If you give each chicken it's dose after weighing out the mg on the scale, you'll likely overdose them.

I would go with either quartering the tablet or finely grinding 1/2 the tablet and make a fully dissolved solution with 2.5 ml of warm water (or as @casportpony has recommended- a corn syrup solution), this way you have 100mg of metronidazole per 1ml of liquid solution (if it's FULLY dissolved).

 

[casportpony]

When I tried the water method I ground up the pill with a mortar and pestal, then added it to warm water, but the particles still floated in the water.

To use the scale one has to weigh the pill, then do some math to calculate the correct dose, so weigh the pill and let us know what you come up with.

 

[Eggcessive]

One method I have used on my dogs and cats when using a tablet or capsule, and trying to get a fairly exact dosage is to crush it into liverwurst/liver cheese and mix-mix-mix the concoction into equal parts. This also works with yogurt, and the corn syrup posted above should work as well. For instance, I take a 250 mg amoxicillin capsule, and mix it into a tsp of liverwurst, mix it well, then divide it into 5 sections which equal 50 mg each. This works with other meds as well. Many medicines are not water soluble, or settle out, so mixing into something thicker can help. I used to work in a pharmacy during college, and learned to mix compounds and creams with several ingredients back in the olden days.

 

[ArtCaptain]

Please be careful, scales measure weight not content. The mg content of medicine will not match the mg weight of the tablet. the tablet itself wouldn't weigh 500mg, though the tablet contains 500mg of metronidazole. Does that make sense? Consider a Motrin 800 is about the same size tablet yet has very different mg of active medical compound. If you give each chicken it's dose after weighing out the mg on the scale, you'll likely overdose them.

I would go with either quartering the tablet or finely grinding 1/2 the tablet and make a fully dissolved solution with 2.5 ml of warm water (or as @casportpony has recommended- a corn syrup solution), this way you have 100mg of metronidazole per 1ml of liquid solution (if it's FULLY dissolved).

Oh crap you're right! I'll keep that in mind.

 

[ArtCaptain]

@casportpony @Eggcessive I'll keep you posted! We haven't done anything yet since we are still in the process of making a backup coop.

 

[ArtCaptain]

@Leihamarie So I'm going to start giving them the medication tomorrow and I was looking over my supplies with my dad and I got really confused about how much to give them because you said 40 and 60ish units so I looked up how to read a syringe and I was like wait the small syringes only read to like 4. whatever! So we got really confused because 60 all of a sudden seemed like a lot but then it didn't because if 1 ml stood for 100 then it all makes sense: Heres some picures as to what I mean (the marks are just estimates)

 

[ArtCaptain]

Also here are some blurry pictures of them


(As you can see nobody volunteered to help me )

 

[casportpony]

What happened to your scale? Weigh one pill and let us know what it weighs.

 

[ArtCaptain]

What happened to your scale? Weigh one pill and let us know what it weighs.

One weighs 0.7 grams. Turns out it doesn't weigh milligrams:/