How much Noromycin 300LA to put in drinking water for chicks and chickens

[pinkl72]

I treated chickens with tylan for labored breathing and swollen sinuses. It seemed to be improving. I planned to give follow up dose in about a week. A few of our new birds who also received the tylan started wheezing audibly and sneezing. I'm afraid the tylan is not treating the illness and I ran out of tylan (I didn't think I needed it for a few days) and Atwoods only carries Noromycin 300LA. It seemed to be a good idea to treat them with a different antibiotic jic and it's all that was available. I can't find a reliable dosage for drinking water. The sources vary WILDLY. The recommendations range from .67 ml/gal to 80 ml/gal which is coconuts. I've summarized my findings below. Could someone please give me the correct dosage, my head is spinning. I assume I need to give to my whole flock which includes couple-day-old chicks to over-a-year-old chickens. I have little birds inside my house and the wheezing birds are outside. One of the wheezing roosters was attacked by another rooster so I isolated him inside. I didn't want to bring the illness inside but hes in bad shape and it's cold outside.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

80 ml/gallon (for LA-200 however mine is LA 300)

http://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/oxytetracycline

33 ml/gallon

http://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/oxytetracycline

This doesnt give formulary for drinking water and I hate giving orally because I've killed 2 chicks (up and over but I'm scarred now)


https://m.facebook.com/notes/guinea...2251523008233169/?wtsid=rdr_09aVCQxqSZrPlNo5H

1.3 ml/gal

https://hocking.osu.edu/sites/hocki.../4H_PDFs-2017/Medication Insert - Poultry.pdf

.67-2.67 ml/gal depending on what you're treating.


I'm including some screenshots and the bottle.

 

[Yardmom]

How are your birds doing? I don't have any experience medicating for respiratory diseases.

 

[pinkl72]

How are your birds doing? I don't have any experience medicating for respiratory diseases.

A little better but not much. Thanks for asking.

 

[Eggcessive]

Noromycyn LA is a long acting oxytetracycline to be given to cattle or swine by IM injection every 3 days, or just once. Tylosin powder for the water is available online only for the next few months, when it will have to be prescribed by a vet.

If this respiratory disease is affecting many different age birds, I would try to get one or two tested to see what disease they may have. That would be especially important if you lose one, where your state vet could do a necropsy. Respiratory diseases can make your whole flock carriers for life. That is why most people close their flocks to new birds or chicks, because they will all eventually be exposed. Others cull sick birds, so the disease does not spread.

 

[pinkl72]

Noromycyn LA is a long acting oxytetracycline to be given to cattle or swine by IM injection every 3 days, or just once. Tylosin powder for the water is available online only for the next few months, when it will have to be prescribed by a vet.

If this respiratory disease is affecting many different age birds, I would try to get one or two tested to see what disease they may have. That would be especially important if you lose one, where your state vet could do a necropsy. Respiratory diseases can make your whole flock carriers for life. That is why most people close their flocks to new birds or chicks, because they will all eventually be exposed. Others cull sick birds, so the disease does not spread.

Where would I get them tested? None of the vets within 3 hours see chickens.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would call your state vet lab and ask about testing. Also, there are national labs which may be a little more expensive, such as Zoologix in California who tests for up to 8 respiratory diseases. They send you the nasal oral swabs to collect from a sick chicken with symptoms, and you send them back. Here is a link for them:
https://www.zoologix.com/avian/Datasheets/PoultryRespiratoryPanel.htm

Here is a list of state vets to contact:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry-labs.html

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a link for buying Tylosin powder for the water, generic Tylan:
https://jedds.com/products/tylosin-powder