Topic of the Week - Emergency/First Aid Preparedness

[Isaac 0]

How does it feel?

 

[AmandaMBG]

How does it feel?

Honestly it feels pretty normal from what I can tell. She is a big girl compared to my other 12 so it's hard to say if she is perfectly normal or if she is a little swollen. It's not hot to the touch either. there are some feathers broken or nipped in half and some skin that looked torn/infected. That's why I was thinking maybe someone was picking her feathers. She is typically more downy in that area than my other girls.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Grab another hen and compare the two.

 

[Connie57]

How do you administer the fish penicillin?

 

[azygous]

I get 250mg tablet of the fish penicillin. I take the patient, place her on a table, and pull down on her wattles. This forces her beak open, and I pop in the pill. Easy and fast. Another way of doing it is to stick the pill in a dab of peanut butter, but a very sick chicken isn't going to want to eat anything, so this one may not always work.

 

[casportpony]

How do you administer the fish penicillin?

Orally at about 57 mg per pound *twice* a day.

 

[Connie57]

Orally at about 57 mg per pound *twice* a day.

 

[Connie57]

Is yours a liquid or powder? Do you diolve it?

 

[casportpony]

Is yours a liquid or powder? Do you diolve it?

This is where it gets tricky... Injectable penicillin is easy, just weigh bird, do a little math and inject in breast muscle. Pills are also pretty easy... weigh bird do math, then cut pills if necessary. Powders are hard, because without a gram scale it's hard to know how much they should get.

 

[azygous]

I just pop the 250mg pill into the beak. No weighing, no measuring, no cutting. If I had bantams or were I to treat a baby chick, I would be more precise. But a three to five pound adult chicken has responded well to my "casual" administrations.