Amoxicillin dosing?

[missmimz]

I have a 3 year old black coop maran that's not doing well. Lethargic, sitting all the time, can't jump up to the roost, watery poops, and not eating or drinking on her own today. She hasn't laid in well over a year and a half. I really don't know what's wrong with her. It seems like it could be EYP or even blackhead. Attached a pic of her most recent poop, although there's a lot of really watery poop in her crate from earlier that looks like urine, so I know that's not good. I'm in AZ so it's hot and their poops are usually watery, but she's indoors right now. I called a vet in my area that supposedly sees chickens and he just said the best he could do was prescribe an antibiotics, so he called in 125mg amoxicillin 0.4ml twice a day. Does that dosage sound right or too low? She's 4.5lbs.

I'm not really sure what else to do for her. I'm doing my best to get some food and water into her hoping she'll pull through.

 

[Eggcessive]

That sounds about right to me. The dosage listed in Plumbs Veterinary Handbook is 125 mg twice a day, or 100 mg 3 times a day. I think that Casportpony has posted recently that her vet recommends 57 mg per pound twice a day. It does sound like she may have something like egg yolk peritonitis. They can get an overwhelming E.coli infection from that. Hopefully, you can keep her comfortable. Offering some wet chicken feed with an occasional bit of chopped egg, tuna, or some chopped beef liver may help.

 

[casportpony]

I called a vet in my area that supposedly sees chickens and he just said the best he could do was prescribe an antibiotics, so he called in 125mg amoxicillin 0.4ml twice a day. Does that dosage sound right or too low? She's 4.5lbs.

Did you pick up the prescription yet? If so, what does the bottle say?

 

[missmimz]

Did you pick up the prescription yet? If so, what does the bottle say?

The bottle says the same thing, 0.4ml twice a day.

 

[missmimz]

That sounds about right to me. The dosage listed in Plumbs Veterinary Handbook is 125 mg twice a day, or 100 mg 3 times a day. I think that Casportpony has posted recently that her vet recommends 57 mg per pound twice a day. It does sound like she may have something like egg yolk peritonitis. They can get an overwhelming E.coli infection from that. Hopefully, you can keep her comfortable. Offering some wet chicken feed with an occasional bit of chopped egg, tuna, or some chopped beef liver may help.

Yeah. I'm not sure she's going to make it but I'm trying to keep her comfortable. She ate some eggs yesterday and some feed mixed with meat baby food, but today she really doesn't want to eat anything.

 

[casportpony]

The bottle says the same thing, 0.4ml twice a day.

Can you post a picture of the bottle?

 

[missmimz]

Can you post a picture of the bottle?

 

[Eggcessive]

That dosage is too low. 10 mg twice a day is much too low. I thought you meant 125 mg twice a day. You may want to contact your vet to question that dosage.

 

[missmimz]

That dosage is too low. 10 mg twice a day is much too low. I thought you meant 125 mg twice a day. You may want to contact your vet to question that dosage.

I don't think that he knows much about chickens (despite claiming to be a "farm vet"), so I was hoping someone here might be able to tell me how much I should actually be giving. I don't have access to any other vets that see chickens, unfortunately.

 

[missmimz]

Okay, I found that manual and it does look like I need to increase the dosage a lot. I just heard this vet saw a guinea pig today and gave it "some kind of shot" and then it died. I really don't think he knows what he's doing with some of these pets. But, i digress... If I'm doing this math right it looks like there's 25mg per ml, so if i give her 4ml twice a day (100mg twice a day) that would be okay?