A few days ago my vet said that she had measured out a larger bottle of tylan for me. The stock was at my local vet’s sister practice which is half an hours drive from me whereas my local practice is five to ten minutes away.
As I still had enough for several more days she said that she would get it transferred to my local vet as the vets do shifts at both practices. Today it was ready for me to collect from my local vets. The bottle is twice the size of my last bottle.
I now have a larger bottle of tylan
To eek out my diminishing supply of tylan I have been mixing half a teaspoon with half a litre of water. This has meant that I could only make tiny amounts of mash with it throughout the day as I didn’t want the drinking water to run out. I had to tip the metal drinking water up with a wedge to make it easier for the girls to drink as it was so shallow.
Now that I am confident that I have a good supply I am going to mix a full teaspoon of powder with a litre of water for the next couple of days. This means I can mix up a big dish of mash with the extra water that will last the girls the whole day. They can fill their boots and I hope that will mean they will consume a larger dose of the tylan.
They are still sneezing and I can still hear a whisper to their breathing. I haven’t seen them dozing as I was out in the afternoon.
Just before bedtime Apricot decided to have a dust bath. This is a good sign that she isn’t feeling too bad. However she did start to nod off her in her dust bath. For a moment I thought she had decided to sleep there but once the other girls started going in she stood up and shook herself off.
Just before bedtime Apricot has a dust bath
She was dozing in her dust bath
I feel happier now that I have a good supply of tylan and can mix up as much as the girls can eat. I hope this will help them.
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Let us hope it will soon work.
I do hope so. They seem to be not getting worse but not getting better. I have asked someone on the chicken forum (Down The Lane) what was the longest that his girls took to get better. He said before that he had treated for ages so I just wanted a time frame to compare. He hasn’t answered yet but I only asked this morning.
Hopefully the higher dosage will have more of an effect. It’s good that they aren’t getting worse.
That’s what I am hanging on to. I want to get as much into them as I can and hopefully it will start to improve.