Pet chicken - antibiotics?

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:25:34 GMT

From now on, I'll regard you as our oncology, as well as dentistry specialist! Seriously, my limited experience of pet rats is that they have an alarmingly high incidence of extremely fast growing subcutaneous tumours. I've heard (maybe apocryphally) that the reason is a strain of rats was specifically bred for cancer research, and excess individuals sold on the pet market - if so, then highly unethical

Wynne

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:49:46 GMT

If you are an exclusively small animal practice it's worth having Tylan in because it's so useful for rats. Or so I find – this is a university town and students all have pet rats.

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

karen jones — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:35:32 GMT

BVA have good poster for chicken disease which we use all the time

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:29:08 GMT

[quote user="Rebecca Benge"]

We don't very often see chickens here in practice so have limited drugs on the shelf for them. There's booked in for this afternoon with respiratory symptoms.

If we were to use antibiotics in this bird what would you suggest?

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If you need to treat empirically, then Tylan is what you want, in my non-expert opinion, simply because mycoplasmosis is so very common.

[quote user="Rebecca Benge"]Many thanks, sorry it's a vague and stupid question![/quote]

Not at all, it's a very practical question.

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

karen jones — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:21:00 GMT

virbac now have a potentiated sulphonamide liquid licensed for small furries pigeons and bearded dragons, should be ok for chickens. We are a mixed practice so we always have tylan /bilovet injection about

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

bob lehner — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:05:27 GMT

If you contact the pharmacy at www.chickenvet.co.uk they will provide a prescription form and you can then order small amounts of various suitable chook abs at modest cost - I found them very useful for treating my own flock.

eg: This was last year's list:

POM –V Medication

Product	Wholesale Price	Quantity Required
Amoxinsol 50% 5g	£2.10
Baycox 2.5% Solution 50ml	£5.95
Baycox 2.5% Solution 20ml	£2.95
Denagard 12.5% Oral Solution 50 ml	£5.95
Denagard 12.5% Oral Solution 20 ml	£2.95
Lincospectin Soluble Powder 4g	£4.95
Tylan 100 Soluble Powder 10g	£5.95
Baytril 10% Oral Solution 100ml	£22.50
Karidox 10% 50ml	£5.95
Karidox 10% 20ml	£2.95

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

Rebecca MacMillan — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:10:24 GMT

Yeah, I'm already familiar with the baytril issue. Unfortunately I have little else to offer chickens specifically!

RE: Pet chicken - antibiotics?

Harriet Nicholson — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:05:41 GMT

Hi,

Firstly I wouldnt recommend baytril as it says you should not use in egg laying birds on the datasheet and as far as i understand this means you can never eat the eggs again.

I often have the same drug issue, cannot order in huge tubs/bottles of chicken liscenced medication, so things I have used are tylan (comes in 100g box i believe) which has zero egg withdrawal, or plain off amoxyclav (125mg/kg bid) which seems to do the job. If using a none liscenced medication I always advise a 14 day egg withdrawal ( as this is what I have been told by farm vets)

Hope that helps - but hopefully a specialist will come along soon.