Bird of prey help please.

RE: Bird of prey help please.

Joyce Whitehead — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:36:17 GMT

Thank you both, that is reassuring. We have never had any clinical signs in the eagle or the owls so we will follow that advice. I’ll get some probiotic sorted.

RE: Bird of prey help please.

Mark Rowland — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:11:24 GMT

Personally I don't like E coli in birds. Ive post mortemed many which have died from E coli infection so if the burden is heavy I would treat in a bird which is probably one of the prime birds in their collection.I would go for a months probiotics if symptomless and then retest. The coccidia I would leave and retest at the same time before I launched into any treatment.

Goodluck. Mark

RE: Bird of prey help please.

Marie Kubiak — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:28:51 GMT

Are there any clinical signs with the Golden eagle? if purely a routine faecal culture result with no clinical issues then I wouldn't get too excited and would just look at checking food and enclosure hygiene is appropriate. Repeat culture or probiotics would also be fairly benign actions that would reassure the owner (and you!). If there are any symptoms present then I'd definitely treat and TMPS would be fine.

For raptors I use toltrazuril (baycox) at 7mg/kg once daily for 2 days. The in water poultry formulation is alkaline and can cause oesophagitis so I tend to dilute it with something acidic (fruit juice/carbonated soft drink) and administer it in food or by tube.

Marie