Need Help-Enrofloxacin 10% Baytril

[sadiemartin]

Hello! I am in need of dosage for my chickens. My flock is quite the variety in age and size, mostly bantams. I have silkies, polish, bantam cochins, an old English rooster, a bantam bobtail pair, seramas, and 2 bantam chicks- 3 months old. Total of 19. My cochin hen first got a cold with one symptom of smelly discharge coming from her nose. She eats and drinks just fine and acts like her same old self. 2-4 weeks later I noticed more of my birds have caught this cold, some sneeze and some don't but all have the smelly boogary discharge. It clogs their nose so I really want to treat this. About 3-4 birds never caught this sickness are are healthy. I ordered the Baytril to solve this but I have a couple questions/concerns.
-Should I treat each bird individually orally or should I just dose the water? 2ml per quart for 4 days then 1ml per quart for 6 more days
-If I do treat individually, how much per bird if I don't know weight? I really want to treat per bird, it is more effective and that way I don't need to treat the healthy ones. Only problem is my seramas and chicks are very small I would be worried.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Keep the nostrils cleaned out.
Any lesions or canker inside their beaks?

Chickens don't really get colds, they have respiratory disease. If the discharge smells bad, then you may be dealing with Infectious Coryza, but without testing it would be hard to know. Respiratory illnesses are contagious and makes all birds carriers, so it's not uncommon for it to spread through the flock. Keeping a closed flock will help you prevent spreading the illness to others.

You'll need to weigh them, do you have a scale?
10% Baytril Liquid dose is 0.05 ml per pound of weight given orally twice a day for 5 days
Treat only symptomatic birds.



https://allbirdproducts.com/products/baytril-10#how-to-use

 

[sadiemartin]

Keep the nostrils cleaned out.
Any lesions or canker inside their beaks?

Chickens don't really get colds, they have respiratory disease. If the discharge smells bad, then you may be dealing with Infectious Coryza, but without testing it would be hard to know. Respiratory illnesses are contagious and makes all birds carriers, so it's not uncommon for it to spread through the flock. Keeping a closed flock will help you prevent spreading the illness to others.

You'll need to weigh them, do you have a scale?
10% Baytril Liquid dose is 0.05 ml per pound of weight given orally twice a day for 5 days
Treat only symptomatic birds.



https://allbirdproducts.com/products/baytril-10#how-to-use
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I haven't seen any lesions/cankers at all. I know they actually don't get "colds" I just called it that because I didn't have them tested so the sickness is unknown, Lol. I have a food scale, I'm going to see if it will work. Thank you so much!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

A food scale should work well!
Hopefully the meds will help

 

[sadiemartin]

A food scale should work well!
Hopefully the meds will help

Just weighed all 19. Thanks.

 

[Myrshine]

Smelly nasal discharge that is similar to that of a nasty fishy like smell could be caused by a disease called Infectious Coryza, which is a disease that affects both the upper and lower respiratory tract. Infectious Coryza is caused by a bacteria, therefore easy to manage and treat, but it is not curable and will remain with the birds for life. Symptoms may or may not reappear during stressful situations or changes. All birds will be carriers of the bacteria as well, therefore making any new birds you bring in, also at high risk of becoming infected as well.

 

[sadiemartin]

Keep the nostrils cleaned out.
Any lesions or canker inside their beaks?

Chickens don't really get colds, they have respiratory disease. If the discharge smells bad, then you may be dealing with Infectious Coryza, but without testing it would be hard to know. Respiratory illnesses are contagious and makes all birds carriers, so it's not uncommon for it to spread through the flock. Keeping a closed flock will help you prevent spreading the illness to others.

You'll need to weigh them, do you have a scale?
10% Baytril Liquid dose is 0.05 ml per pound of weight given orally twice a day for 5 days
Treat only symptomatic birds.



https://allbirdproducts.com/products/baytril-10#how-to-use
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I over dosed 5 of my chickens last night around 6pm. I was looking at that syringe (mine came with the same one) and I dosed them .5 per pound not .05 I’m so upset with myself. All of them seem fine except my silkie hen just started sneezing a lot and has bubbles coming out of her eye. Im going to wait to treat the rest and put it in the water.

 

[sadiemartin]

Smelly nasal discharge that is similar to that of a nasty fishy like smell could be caused by a disease called Infectious Coryza, which is a disease that affects both the upper and lower respiratory tract. Infectious Coryza is caused by a bacteria, therefore easy to manage and treat, but it is not curable and will remain with the birds for life. Symptoms may or may not reappear during stressful situations or changes. All birds will be carriers of the bacteria as well, therefore making any new birds you bring in, also at high risk of becoming infected as well.

Yes I’m familiar with it. It’s a bummer but I’m not bringing anymore birds in to my flock.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I over dosed 5 of my chickens last night around 6pm. I was looking at that syringe (mine came with the same one) and I dosed them .5 per pound not .05 I’m so upset with myself. All of them seem fine except my silkie hen just started sneezing a lot and has bubbles coming out of her eye. Im going to wait to treat the rest and put it in the water.

This can easily happen, don't beat yourself up.
Putting it in the water per the directions may be easier, but I would wonder if the medication is bitter? They will need to drink the water really well to see the benefit. If you find they aren't drinking well, then you may need to try sweetening the water with a little sugar or honey or syringing the mixed water into them.

I hope they start to get better.

 

[sadiemartin]

This can easily happen, don't beat yourself up.
Putting it in the water per the directions may be easier, but I would wonder if the medication is bitter? They will need to drink the water really well to see the benefit. If you find they aren't drinking well, then you may need to try sweetening the water with a little sugar or honey or syringing the mixed water into them.

I hope they start to get better.

Thank you for your help!! They all turned out fine, thank god! I thought about whats best and I am continuing with the correct dosage and dosing them individually. I will post updates after the fist 5 days. Thanks again!