Sorry, got my decimal point in the wrong place - yes it is 0.8ml made up to 1ml with water, but ours is 2.5%, not 2% Baytril. The vet said she would prescribe Baytril but we had some left over from when Flossie had her crop incised, which she looked up on the records and said would be fine. Basil weighs just over 1kg. The vet said 3 days should be enough?
Strange growth(?) on cockerel's foot
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chrismahon
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Yep, 2.5% equates to a short double dose for his weight. 3 days at that dose is enough certainly. Myself I would have gone with an initial double dose then on to normal for another 6 days, so one at 0.8 followed by 6 at 0.4 -but I'm not a vet!
chrismahon
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They are going to use it for human consumption apparently, for people who are allergic to all the alternative antibiotics. So its important that even tiny traces are not in the food chain -like eggs. A tiny dose can result in an allergy to a subsequent treatment which is why courses have to be completed. That's how I understand it anyway. Course that leaves hen owners with only the more expensive alternatives.
foxy
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elmdene said:
Baytril no longer has an license for poultry in the UK and US..here is a bit more info, we were all musing on this not long ago!
http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5599&hilit=Baytril
Blimey.... I just read that thread. Obviously my vet has no knowledge of all this! According to Wikipedia, Baytril was banned for use in poultry in 2005. Flossie, who my Baytril was originally prescribed for last November, sadly died. But I wonder what the effect of giving it to a cockerel who is fertilising eggs is? How much of a drug can you get into a chicken sperm? :?
foxy
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Ahh I expect the vet simply prescribed Baytril "off license" which is a perfectly usual process. Baytril has only had its license removed for poultry because of the medical profession getting a bit uneasy in the potential of animal use having an effect on bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics commonly used in humans.
Saying all that, I would not have thought in the case of your cockerel that antibiotics were strictly necessary, only my opinion of course!
Saying all that, I would not have thought in the case of your cockerel that antibiotics were strictly necessary, only my opinion of course!
Bertie & The Chooks
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrofloxacin meep meep
