What medicine's are a must for adult pea's and chick's?

[kuntrygirl]

I don't know about that site, but I would love to have the Flagyl suspension.  I have not had to treat for blackhead in a long time (knock on wood - I am sure I just doomed myself) but sticking the pills down their throats is a pain in the you know what.

You cannot give a young peachick the correct dose using a 100mg, 200mg, 250mg or 400mg pill, liquid suspension should be used on the smaller ones if you treat at the rate of 30mg/kg.

Pills or suspension, same diff to me. I just want to be 100% sure that they get the correct dose for their body weight.

I wonder if someone could calculate the correct dosage of med per weight from 5gr up to 30lbs? Makes sense? :/

 

[casportpony]

I guess it all depends on who you talk to.  My 12 year old thinks the 10 year old that eats out of her hand is a litlle peachicky!  They are all her peababies.  If you are talking to me,the guy that has to catch and move or worm them, they are no longer peachicks when they can kick my tail.  Some are easy and some are downright nasty at six months.  I guess my break point really would be 6 to 8 months although I advertise them as juveniles once they are fully feathered.

Well my 2012 "chicks" are all fully feathered and I have taken to calling them my peababies! They are all between 3-4 months old and weigh 1400-2200 grams. They are getting so big and I'm starting to get that "empty nest" feeling...

 

[casportpony]

I wonder if someone could calculate the correct dosage of med per weight from 5gr up to 30lbs? Makes sense? :/

What weighs 5 grams? Anyway, a 30 pound bird would need 420mg if I've dome my math correctly. I would probably just give it 500mg if I were using the 250mg tablets.

 

[casportpony]

That's why my avian vet requested weights so that the pharmacist can compound the exact dosage as per weight.

And that's why I keep saying that a good one to have on hand is compounded at 50mg/ml. At that rate, one can dose a 100 gram chick as well as a larger one.

 

[AugeredIn]

Well my 2012 "chicks" are all fully feathered and I have taken to calling them my peababies! They are all between 3-4 months old and weigh 1400-2200 grams. They are getting so big and I'm starting to get that "empty nest" feeling...

We quit "playing" with ours at about 5-6 weeks to avoid aggressiveness and because they go in a brooder barn with pens that are not conducive to contact. From that 5-6 week old age to 5-6 months they get kind of ornery about being handled! Once they go into permanent housing it takes them about 2-4 months to get to the point where they will get close to us when we are in the pens.

 

[AugeredIn]

Lol, when I got a visual of that type scale I wasn't thinking what you were!
Anyway, I did have one that size that I lost to blackhead back in July. He (necropsy stayed sex) died very shortly after first symptoms appeared despite aggressive treatment that included metronidazole.

LOL, I did not think about that!

It sucks to lose chicks. They go quick when they get sick and it is sometimes really hard to see the they are sick until it is too late. we have very few problems with chicks now that we have a totally off the ground system. The only chicks we sometimes have problems with are the chicks we let some hens hatch at the end of the season. We lose about a third of those chicks if left with the hens.

 

[kuntrygirl]

That's why my avian vet requested weights so that the pharmacist can compound the exact dosage as per weight.

And that's why I keep saying that a good one to have on hand is compounded at 50mg/ml. At that rate, one can dose a 100 gram chick as well as a larger one.

What is 100grams converted to lbs?

 

[casportpony]

What is 100grams converted to lbs?

100 grams equals 3.53 ounces. There are 16 ounces to a pound, so it's just under 1/4lb.

 

[Yoda]

You can buy parrot baytril online without a prescription here: www.allbirdproducts.com all other types of baytril need a prescription. This website is listed on a lot of threads on this forum. I even had a vet refer me to this site cause she can only prescribe baytril for dogs/cats. Click onto shop by category then click onto bird medications. They are listed a-z for you.

My meds:
Baytril or tylan 200 - antibiotic
Fish zole - blackhead (you can purchase on Ebay)
Corid - coccidia
Safeguard for goats liquid - Use as my first wormer
Ivemectin pour on for cattle - use as my second wormer

The only meds I use regularly is the wormers. I use safeguard 3 cc/ml per gallon of water for 3 days and repeat in 14 days then use Ivemectin 1cc/ml squirted directly onto skin at base of neck/back. I worm 2 times a year March/April and then again in Nov. The other meds I only use when a bird is sick. I mix them with water except the baytril & tylan, those I use a syringe with. I do not go to the extreme of trying to figure out how much to dose to body weight. I just use a generic dose. Metro 3 tabs to a gallon of water, Corid 1 teaspoon per gallon of water. My chicks do not see the ground til they are 6 months old. By then they are healthy little buggers and once in a while one gets a cold. That bird will be treated and it is fine. I never had any birds catch blackhead or pox knock on wood. I do have amoxicillin tablets that I use for younger chicks when they get a cold.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I guess it all depends on who you talk to.  My 12 year old thinks the 10 year old that eats out of her hand is a litlle peachicky!  They are all her peababies.  If you are talking to me,the guy that has to catch and move or worm them, they are no longer peachicks when they can kick my tail.  Some are easy and some are downright nasty at six months.  I guess my break point really would be 6 to 8 months although I advertise them as juveniles once they are fully feathered.

Well my 2012 "chicks" are all fully feathered and I have taken to calling them my peababies! They are all between 3-4 months old and weigh 1400-2200 grams. They are getting so big and I'm starting to get that "empty nest" feeling...

What do you feed your pea babies and pea adults?