HELP! Question on treatment of lash egg

[awagnon]

I have a girl who hasn't been eating and tonight laid a lash egg for the first time. (not her first egg, just her first Lash egg). I am wondering what the best thing I can get for her to treat this. I have been told to get a broad spectrum med on another site and I found Enrofloxacin at Jedds. It says not for birds for human consumption. We are not going to eat her, but would eat her eggs if she started laying again.

I have found different information on the egg withdrawl for this. I read someone's vet said 2 month withdrawl, but I have also been told on a different site that I could never sell the eggs from this hen again. I don't sell them, but if that is a precaution, does that mean we shouldn't eat them either?? I have seen the post by @casportpony post on the dosing so I am going by that if I go with this med.

Is there another, better broad spectrum med I can get for her instead?? I need some input fast as I need to start her treatment and hope I have caught this early.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@Eggcessive

 

[nuthatched]

Usually by the first lash egg, it's already pretty set in, I'm sorry.
She could have had an infection for months.

 

[Eggcessive]

For salpingitis or lash egg, treatment with antibiotics may or may not help. But most people with a special hen are willing to try and give one to extend life. I have had a couple live for 2 years with suspected salpingitis or EYP. Enrofloxacin is the best one available to use, but it is banned by the FDA for chickens, due to emerging antibiotic resistance. So vets are reluctant (and forbidden) to give it. Amoxicillin is probably the second best one to use that we can sometimes get. Most chickens will salpingitis are not going to lay many eggs, but I would use at least a month egg withdrawal for enrofloxacin. Dosage is 10 mg per kilogram (each 2.2 pounds of weight) given twice a day for 5 days. Get it from jedds.com, and I would get the tablets and crush them in food, since they are a better buy:
https://jedds.com/products/enrofloxacin-10?variant=40215712661693

 

[awagnon]

For salpingitis or lash egg, treatment with antibiotics may or may not help. But most people with a special hen are willing to try and give one to extend life. I have had a couple live for 2 years with suspected salpingitis or EYP. Enrofloxacin is the best one available to use, but it is banned by the FDA for chickens, due to emerging antibiotic resistance. So vets are reluctant (and forbidden) to give it. Amoxicillin is probably the second best one to use that we can sometimes get. Most chickens will salpingitis are not going to lay many eggs, but I would use at least a month egg withdrawal for enrofloxacin. Dosage is 10 mg per kilogram (each 2.2 pounds of weight) given twice a day for 5 days. Get it from jedds.com, and I would get the tablets and crush them in food, since they are a better buy:
https://jedds.com/products/enrofloxacin-10?variant=40215712661693

Thank you for this information and link. She's really not acting very sick. The only symptoms are her not eating much and of course this lash egg she laid. Will she lay these often? It's ok if she doesn't lay anymore, we have more eggs than we can use anyway. I just don't want her to be in pain and suffering. I am going to call our vet who treated our cat and see if they can run a culture on this thing for me.

 

[awagnon]

@Eggcessive I called a vet in a couple cities away. they send off their samples for testing. They said it was $200. Does that sound about right for bacterial culture of a lash egg? They send off to A&M, I am in Texas. Do you know of any other labs I can send to? Their wait for results was 3 weeks. Does that sound right? Never had anything tested before so I don't know if that's normal. Thx!

 

[Eggcessive]

Cultures are very expensive. I’m not sure that I would bother. Most lash egg material if bacterial are E.coli, mycoplasma gallisepticum, or fowl cholera. The enrofloxacin treats all 3 of those. If she eventually dies, money would be better spent having your state vet do a necropsy. Here is a link for most state vets and how to send the body:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry...7IOlHOhP-eD8qMtZ70RNq6BMO9kVUn3x6so7q0Z_JgEr8

If you were dealing with a respiratory disease or other type infection a culture and sensitivity might be good. But again, there are places like VetDNA and Zoologix who will do testing for respiratory and other diseases, and much cheaper.

 

[awagnon]

Cultures are very expensive. I’m not sure that I would bother. Most lash egg material if bacterial are E.coli, mycoplasma gallisepticum, or fowl cholera. The enrofloxacin treats all 3 of those. If she eventually dies, money would be better spent having your state vet do a necropsy. Here is a link for most state vets and how to send the body:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry...7IOlHOhP-eD8qMtZ70RNq6BMO9kVUn3x6so7q0Z_JgEr8

If you were dealing with a respiratory disease or other type infection a culture and sensitivity might be good. But again, there are places like VetDNA and Zoologix who will do testing for respiratory and other diseases, and much cheaper.

Ok thanks, that is good to know. Thanks for the info.