Updated - Corid and Amprol (amprolium) Dosing

[casportpony]

Thank you

You're welcome!

-kathy

 

[tammybresee322]

I just need to know if turkeys can have the corid or if it would hurt them i need to treat my chickens in not sure this is it but give lost 5 today they are full grown to 3 weeks most around 5 months but my 7 turkeys stay with my hens and would rind the same water is it ok for them

 

[tammybresee322]

Sorry this was a new post

 

[casportpony]

I just need to know if turkeys can have the corid or if it would hurt them i need to treat my chickens in not sure this is it but give lost 5 today they are full grown to 3 weeks most around 5 months but my 7 turkeys stay with my hens and would rind the same water is it ok for them

@tammybresee322 , welcome to BYC! Turkeys can have Corid.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Dosing picture:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

The 1/2 teaspoon Corid Powder dose keeps rearing is head, so I thought I'd do another post that shows why it's incorrect.

• First we need to know that the Corid sold in the US is labeled for cattle, not poultry, so that means the directions on the bag and bottle are for cattle. Labeled for cattle doesn't mean that we can't use in on other species, but that we need to figure out the proper dosing for other species.

• Second, there are at least two other products sold in the US that *are* labeled for poultry. One is Amprol 128, the other is AmproMed. All three are exactly the same, so the same dose applies to all 20% products when treating poultry.

• 20% means that there are 200 mg per gram.

• One ounce of these powders = 3.5 tablespoons.

Here are the mixing instructions for Amprol 128:


The AmproMed instructions are the same:



Now what? Now you have to decide if you want to treat for a moderate or severe outbreak, and I think you will find that most people on BYC choose to treat for the severe outbreak, which means the 0.024% level.

8 ounces of powder is 226.796185 grams. So it's 226.796185 grams ÷ 50 gallons = 4.5359237 grams per gallon. 4.5359237 x 200 mg = 907.18474 mg per gallon.

One ounce of these powders = 3.5 tablespoons.


One ounce = 28.3495 grams
3.5 tablespoons = 10.5 teaspoons
28.3495 grams x 200 mg ÷ 10.5 tsp = ~540 mg per tsp.
Desired .024% dose is 907.18474 mg per gallon, so it's 907.18474 / 540 = ~1.68 teaspoons per gallon

Here's the kicker... math shows that one teaspoon should weigh about 2.7 grams, but when I weighed it, it was much closer to 3 grams, so 3 grams x 200 mg x 1.5 tsp = 900mg, which is close enough to the target of 907 mg.

Hope this wasn't too confusing, and as usual, please check my math.

So what all of the above shows is that the correct dose to treat a severe outbreak is absolutely no less than 1.5 teaspoons per gallon and probably not more than 1.75 teaspoons per gallon.


-Kathy

 

[BaileyMChicks]

Hi I read that there is no withdrawal time for Corid on the eggs, but I've been throwing the one I get every other day away, as that's all I've been getting. I treated my birds for cocci last week(more like the end of 2 weeks and middle of last week) and they were done on last Thursday. It's ok to eat the eggs now, right? I think enough time has passed even though there wasn't a withdrawal period. Anyways, the real question I would like to ask is, tonight while searching for my rooster who didnt make it into the coop tonight, I stumbled upon a nest of 8 mottled houdan eggs(I believe) and I would like to hatch a few. They wouldn't have been there for very long, as I cracked 3 open and they were completely fine. The air cell was still small too. I was wondering if it was ok to hatch out chicks from hens who had been treated with Corid. I' m not sure when these eggs were layed, but it seemed rather recent. None of my hens are broody, but I have a cochin bantam who loves to hatch chicks, so I think with a little encouraging she' ll go broody. So yeah I just wanna know if it's safe to hatch out chicks from those eggs if they were layed around the time the Corid treatment was over. Because I don't want them having any birth defects or anything. I'm not going to hatch them until someone replies to this because I'd rather be safe than sorry because it would just be cruel to turn them into an experiment to see if they end up having birth defects or something. Sorry if this didnt make any sense I'm very tired right now. Thanks.

 

[ochochicas]

The eggs are total safe for eating or hatching. Corid blocks the uptake of vitamin B by the Coccidia, which causes them to die. It is not an antibiotic or chemical that affects the chicken in any way.

 

[BaileyMChicks]

So it would be fine to hatch the eggs?! You don't know how happy I am! Thanks for replying. This post just literally made my day. My day hasn't been going very well, and this just made it much better. Thank you.

 

[ochochicas]

Your eggs should be fine. I've normally noticed that "birth defects" in chicks are usually a problem with incubation temperature or humidity, and sometimes nutrition of the hens.

Good luck!