Updated - Corid and Amprol (amprolium) Dosing

[Entropy Eggs]

casportpony
It took me WAY TOO LONG to find this detailed information...kudos for doing all the math and making our eyes pop, I, for one, am grateful.

I generally buy Corid liquid by the gallon, it's ultimately cheaper than by the 16oz. But I'm curious if my usage of it over a period of a year weakens the potency of the medication at all... thoughts?
Also, I've recently been given a large packet of 20% powder, and I've been searching on HOW to precisely mix the powder in a gallon of water to actually make the solution I'm used to so I don't have to mix it individually for every single pen. The powder doesn't dissolve well and it's just easier to measure the dolup needed per gallon in the pens then it is to try and measure out a teaspoon AND mix it with cold water at the coops...if you can assist, that would be awesome!

 

[casportpony]

if you can assist, that would be awesome!

Let me work on that! How many gallons waterers would you fill in one day?

 

[Entropy Eggs]

Let me work on that! How many gallons waterers would you fill in one day?

WOW, response time is AWESOME! TYSM!

So, I have 20+ pens that have 5gal nipple buckets or 2ish gallon "rubber slop bowls". When I'm medicating, I don't fill the bowls more than a gallon(ish) so I take a 16oz empty Corid bottle, fill it from the gallon Corid container and then mix at the pens in a dolup I deem appropriate.

Maybe the packet of Corid isn't enough to make a gallon of solution, but I really just want to liquify the 20% powder so I can use it as I normally would the 16oz 9.6% liquid. That way, I can make it fresh for the duration of the treatment... Make sense?

 

[casportpony]

Let me do some math for you!

 

[casportpony]

So I just did the math and one 10 ounce package will make 62.5 gallons of the severe infection rate (0.024%), or 125 gallons moderate infection rate (0.012%). I always suggest using the severe infection amount for 3-5 days.

 

[Entropy Eggs]

So I just did the math and one 10 ounce package will make 62.5 gallons of the severe infection rate (0.024%), or 125 gallons moderate infection rate (0.012%). I always suggest using the severe infection amount for 3-5 days.

I'm sorry I'm getting back to you so late, but thank you SO much for doing that. Final question, I promise!!!

If I have a full gallon of water and I want to make the entire gallon be the same 9.6% solution you buy In the 16oz bottles...

How much of this powder do I place in the gallon of water so that by adding just a dolup of THAT solution to another gallon of plain water I'll have the moderate infection rate?

See, this is where I lose everyone. When I treat my pens, I carry around the 16oz container of liquid Corid and I freshly make their bucket of water with a hose to fill that container up with a gallon of water and then I dolup the dose of 9.6% liquid in it. By the time I treat all my chickens ONCE, that 16oz is half empty. I bought the GALLON size container of 9.6% solution for damn near $100!!! The powder is cheaper., However no one can tell me how much powder to place in 1 gallon of water to make a full gallon of 9.6% solution

 

[Swilso3]

if you treat your pens once and add no new chickens do you still need to use Corid every now and again? Inside chickens that are not free ranging. What if hew chicks hatch and grow up with the treated chickens? I sure dont want sick chickens ever again

 

[casportpony]

One gallon of Corid makes 378.5 gallons
One 10 ounce pack of Corid makes 62.5 gallons.

To make one gallon of the 9.6% solutions you need ~6 packs of powder.

 

[Daniellelyn]

Our silkie Juliette started not feeling well 2 days ago. Yesterday while getting advise on FB I took her inside and was going to give her a bath. While inside she pooped twice a really nasty bloody poop. She had not done this in the coop I would have seen it. I was advised it was Coccidiosis and to treat with Corid. I was able to get the powder and started it immediately. I used a syringe and trickled down her throat many times last night and more this morning. I also made a mash with the liquid and after persistently shoving in her face she started eating. She has now been eating and drinking all day, I am still dropping liquid with syringe to make sure she gets enough.

currently she is no longer pooping blood and is getting restless.

When can she be put back with the rest of the flock?

Oh and I also treated their water with 1/2 the dose of Juliette’s. None

are showing any symptoms.

 

[78753]

Thank you! I think the issues were from the head trauma. I learned I need to continue the Wry Neck treatment for 3 -6 weeks and add fish oil and vitamin B complex (instead of polyvisol). I am doing that. Since adding fish oil, Sweety's feet are getting a little more stronger every day I am just trying to figure out how much B complex to give her since it is a tablet and she is only 3 pounds.

Using Corid and Vitamin B complex is counterproductive, since the way Corid works is by blocking vitamin B1 (aka thiamin) uptake. B vitamins should wait till treatment is cocmpleted, or you should choose a different type of treatment (Or just give your bird plain Niacin to address the wry neck, and not the B complex- which includes niacin, but also thiamine.)