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Yes: ml=cc's. 1ml=1cc=100 units. And your vet is giving your birds SLIGHTLY under the maximum dosage (which can be as high as 40 mg/kg) of tylan 200. They are dosing your birds at around 30 mg/kg, which is totally fine. I give mine 35mg/kg, twice a day and never had a problem. I would give the doses that the vet has prescribed. Here's the link from the Merck vet manual with the dosages of many common avian antibiotics: http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/servlet/CVMHighLight?file=htm/bc/texl03.htm&word=table,antimicrobials,caged,birds
There's two trains of thought (maybe more, but I'm only aware of these two...) when it comes to treating with tylan. Some vets like to give only one or two injections, several days apart and this apparently does meet with pretty good success. However, I've heard of a lot of people having relapses within a couple of weeks of dosing this way (I've not tried it myself, so I'm just drawing from the experiences of others). I prefer the Merck vet dosage, as I have read that the "active life" of the tylan in the system is only 8 hours, with the effectiveness of the medication dropping off rapidly after that. I once had an acutely ill hen that I brought to the vet. She was given tylan (35 mg/kg) three times per day in combination with amikacin once per day. She survived and went on to live another 4 years, so the high dosage of tylan didn't hurt her in the slightest.
Hope this clears it up for you a bit,
Laura
There's two trains of thought (maybe more, but I'm only aware of these two...) when it comes to treating with tylan. Some vets like to give only one or two injections, several days apart and this apparently does meet with pretty good success. However, I've heard of a lot of people having relapses within a couple of weeks of dosing this way (I've not tried it myself, so I'm just drawing from the experiences of others). I prefer the Merck vet dosage, as I have read that the "active life" of the tylan in the system is only 8 hours, with the effectiveness of the medication dropping off rapidly after that. I once had an acutely ill hen that I brought to the vet. She was given tylan (35 mg/kg) three times per day in combination with amikacin once per day. She survived and went on to live another 4 years, so the high dosage of tylan didn't hurt her in the slightest.
Hope this clears it up for you a bit,
Laura