Tylan Soluble Effectiveness

[Eggcessive]

She needs 50 mg pound per day of Tylan. You could mix it stronger just for her, say 1 tsp per liter waterer, and make sure that she drinks it. Or get the Tylan 50 and give her 1/4 ml 3 times a day. I am just saying, she may have something more hard to treat than the others that might require a different antibiotic. E. Coli and pseudomonas are other bacteria that can cause eye and sinus infection. Here is a link about Tylan dosage:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tylan-powder-help-and-dosage.1245955/

 

[CyberCountry]

I'll just pick up some tylan 50 and dose via syringe. No improvement in two days will net a trip to the vet. Thanks everyone, I'll keep you all updated.

 

[CyberCountry]

I don't want to necro a thread, but I want my eventual solution to help someone else.

I took her to the vet. Vet confirmed my amateur diagnosis of MG. She berated me for using tylan as she considers it a 'wives tale with more danger than it's worth'. Alright, whatever. She prescribes me Amoxicillin, dosed 2x a day with these enormous pink pills that were almost bigger than the bird's head. Getting her to swallow them was almost impossible, but I did.

It worked. All her symptoms went away, and to this day she's yet to have a flare up. Note for everyone who doesn't know already: MG stays in their system forever and can resurface at any time. If you're an egg-producing flock (ESPECIALLY if you sell) and get confirmed MG, you may want to mass cull, sanitize, and start over. The antibiotics mean the eggs can't legally be sold (forever or just for a time period depends on he dose), and MG causes a drop in egg production. I have a hobby flock and it doesn't matter to me.

Thank you to everyone who assisted. Everything ended up alright.

 

[Eggcessive]

I don't want to necro a thread, but I want my eventual solution to help someone else.

I took her to the vet. Vet confirmed my amateur diagnosis of MG. She berated me for using tylan as she considers it a 'wives tale with more danger than it's worth'. Alright, whatever. She prescribes me Amoxicillin, dosed 2x a day with these enormous pink pills that were almost bigger than the bird's head. Getting her to swallow them was almost impossible, but I did.

It worked. All her symptoms went away, and to this day she's yet to have a flare up. Note for everyone who doesn't know already: MG stays in their system forever and can resurface at any time. If you're an egg-producing flock (ESPECIALLY if you sell) and get confirmed MG, you may want to mass cull, sanitize, and start over. The antibiotics mean the eggs can't legally be sold (forever or just for a time period depends on he dose), and MG causes a drop in egg production. I have a hobby flock and it doesn't matter to me.

Thank you to everyone who assisted. Everything ended up alright.

Amoxicillin or penicillins will not treat mycoplasma (MG) because MG does not have a cell wall. Your hen must have had something else going on, possibly a virus, or a bacteria suscepticle to amoxicillin. Did your vet confirm it with a culture or testing? I am glad that your hen is well, but your vet obviously did not know that MG can only be treated with certain antibiotics—Tylosin, oxytetracycline or other tetracycline drugs, denagard, and Baytril. Here is a link about MG, and scroll down to “treatment”:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...NIHTiyWsARfgJ_pbo8Cpa-4s0JKY087UaAuJ6EALw_wcB

 

[CyberCountry]

Amoxicillin or penicillins will not treat mycoplasma (MG) because MG does not have a cell wall. Your hen must have had something else going on, possibly a virus, or a bacteria suscepticle to amoxicillin. Did your vet confirm it with a culture or testing? I am glad that your hen is well, but your vet obviously did not know that MG can only be treated with certain antibiotics—Tylosin, oxytetracycline or other tetracycline drugs, denagard, and Baytril. Here is a link about MG, and scroll down to “treatment”:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/mycoplasmosis/mycoplasma-gallisepticum-infection-in-poultry?network=g&matchtype=e&keyword=mycoplasma gallisepticum&creative=223892074063&device=t&devicemodel=&placement=&position=1t2&campaignid=939309541&adgroupid=44403887262&loc_physical_ms=9015895&loc_interest_ms=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh8jrBRDQARIsAH7BsXcDGwYMVjOEwMnqNUGWr5iNIHTiyWsARfgJ_pbo8Cpa-4s0JKY087UaAuJ6EALw_wcB

Vet didn't bother with testing, told me that was 'the only thing it could be'.

She's kind of a mean person and very dismissive but she's the only aviary/exotics vet that sees chickens and claims to know anything about them.

I don't know what to tell ya, haha.