Treating and Preventing Diseases With Tylan 200

[VolailleAmant]

Hello everyone!
I have some Tylan 200, and a respiratory going through my flock. Could I give some of the Tylan 200 to the other birds that are NOT sick, just as a preventative?
If so, what dosage do you recommend?
Thanks!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Antibiotics are not in the realm of 'preventative' measures.
Do you know what the illness is?
Antibiotics treat some (but not all) bacterial infections and do nothing for viral, fungal, protozoal, environmental, etc. maladies.
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Prophylactically treating with antibiotics is how resistant bacteria are made - super bugs.

 

[PirateGirl]

If treating orally and you are not separating out the symptomatic birds it will not harm them to all drink the Tylan water. With respiratory infection they have likely all been exposed. I wouldn't jump and say it is necessary to treat all with antibiotics however, some birds may be resistant to the infection, some may be carriers and not show symptoms, some will fight it off on their own. How you manage it is your call. Consider what percentage are showing symptoms and how severe they are.

 

[VolailleAmant]

Thanks you everyone. Would it be dangerous to treat my birds that are NOT sick, and are NOT showing symptoms? I had to cull some birds, due to their severity. I was told that it was possibly mycoplasma gallisepticum or infectious coryza. All birds were exposed. Could I just treat the exposed birds with Tylan 200? Would it be bad? Thanks!

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you have a large dog crate or a way to separate the ones with symptoms? I would only treat the symptomatic birds. I remember your previous thread. It looks like a bacterial infection such as coryza, or maybe a bad MG. If you lose any, get a necropsy—it helps to know what you are dealing with.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Why not send a bird to the poultry lab I gave you contact information for so you don't have to guess what it is and how to treat - or even if you can continue to use the building.

 

[casportpony]

I recently read about someone with a something they thought was MG or coryza, but it turned out to be something else, so I would not treat anything other than the sick ones, and if all you have is Tylan 200, use that, but do use it properly, which means giving it several times a day. The dose I would use is 50 mg per pound per day (0.25 ml per pound per day).

Five pound bird
0.625 ml twice a day
0.42 ml three times a day
0.31 ml four times a day

In poultry and other birds, Tylan should be given no less than twice a day.

CRD indications:

• Administer medicated drinking water for three days; however, medicated water may be administered for one to five days depending upon severity of infection. Treated chickens must consume enough medicated water to provide 50 mg per pound of body weight per day. Only medicated water should be available to the birds.

Turkeys:

• Administer medicated drinking water for three days; however, medicated water may be administered for two to five days depending upon severity of infection. Treated turkeys must consume enough medicated water to provide 60 mg per pound of body weight per day. Only medicated water should be available to the birds.

 

[casportpony]

Why not send a bird to the poultry lab I gave you contact information for so you don't have to guess what it is and how to treat - or even if you can continue to use the building.

And do that too.

 

[casportpony]

This is one I haven't heard of "Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale".
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/106/ornithobacterium-infection-ort/

Another testing option would be to send a swab to this place:
http://www.zoologix.com/avian/Datasheets/PoultryRespiratoryPanel.htm

 

[JensChickies]

I recently read about someone with a something they thought was MG or coryza, but it turned out to be something else, so I would not treat anything other than the sick ones, and if all you have is Tylan 200, use that, but do use it properly, which means giving it several times a day. The dose I would use is 50 mg per pound per day (0.25 ml per pound per day).

Five pound bird
0.625 ml twice a day
0.42 ml three times a day
0.31 ml four times a day

In poultry and other birds, Tylan should be given no less than twice a day.

Kathy....is it the same dose orally? 0.625ml PO bid for a 5lb hen?