Which Enroflaxocin to get?

[Curtnstac]

Want to grab some Enroflaxocin to put in my first aid kit. Which would be easier to administer, pills or liquid? Thanks

 

[Susan Skylark]

Just make sure your eggs/meat does not enter the food chain, this drug is illegal to use off label in food producing animals, you’ll want to consider all treated birds pets and don’t sell eggs/meat to others. For backyard and hobby producers it isn’t a huge issue, at worst you’ll get a nasty letter but large scale egg or milk producers can lose their license, get fined, have to pay for condemned products (a whole tanker of milk or several tons of cheese!)…just an fyi.

 

[Curtnstac]

Just make sure your eggs/meat does not enter the food chain, this drug is illegal to use off label in food producing animals, you’ll want to consider all treated birds pets and don’t sell eggs/meat to others. For backyard and hobby producers it isn’t a huge issue, at worst you’ll get a nasty letter but large scale egg or milk producers can lose their license, get fined, have to pay for condemned products (a whole tanker of milk or several tons of cheese!)…just an fyi.

Thank you! I only have silkies and they are my babies so no food chickens here!

 

[kattabelly]

Even if you don't plan to eat them, overuse of drugs like this is still contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

As well as the bacteria causing the infection you're trying to treat, enrofloxacin will also kill a lot of the campylobacter bacteria present in your chickens' guts but some will survive and be present in their faeces, along with some of the active drug. Other bacteria in the environment that are exposed to either the drug or the (now resistant to enrofloxacin) surviving campylobacter can then also develop resistance. Enrofloxacin is very similar to another antibiotic that's used in humans, so bacteria that are resistant to one will also have a good degree of resistance to the other.

At the very least, I assume you'll also be researching where you can send samples off to be tested, so you aren't using the drug to treat something that would likely respond well to an antibiotic that isn't illegal to use for poultry or might not even be a bacterial infection at all?