tzdansker
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Post by tzdansker on Jun 10, 2019 6:14:47 GMT -7
Hello all,
I am a new member of this forum - proud owner of an AG named “Amarula” - Amarula unfortunately is sick and need a dose of antibiotic. Does anybody have good advice of how to feed this? It is liquid form and requirement is about 1ml twice a day. Amarula is not happy being touched and handled so it is a stressful struggle which requires gloves and involves quite some struggle which I would really like to avoid - Vet recommend using a syringe - which does require that I force feed - anybody???
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Post by Jane on Jun 10, 2019 12:46:10 GMT -7
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Post by Haz on Jun 11, 2019 17:17:46 GMT -7
When I had to give Chyloe medication, I tried to hide it in yogurt which she loves. She refused to eat it and thereafter she would not eat yogurt unless I tasted it first.
I ended up using a syringe. I held her while hubby squirted the medication into her beak. Then I massaged her throat to make it go down. We did it very slowly.
Haz
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Post by Adele on Jun 11, 2019 19:53:10 GMT -7
With Maui, when I did the liquid medicine, I just held her head and squirted it into her beak, making sure she swallowed it. I didn't put the syringe down her throat.
I have heard of much better ways though, like giving a very high value item in the syringe, such as apple juice, and then every once in a while doing the medicine. So like 4:1 times of apple juice to medicine. Even after getting medicine, the bird will still keep getting apple juice and continually try the syringe.
Here is a video of it being taught:
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Post by chris on Jun 12, 2019 7:04:25 GMT -7
I don't know the details because frankly I was afraid to ask but my friend in China had her CAG pass away (choked to death) while she was giving it oral medicine. As I say, I have no idea how it happened and certainly don't want to frighten - maybe others on here more knowledgeable than me could postulate how that could happen. To say she was devastated would be a vast understatement. We've had to give Ruby antibiotics twice now, both times via injections. Believe me, twice a day for a couple weeks is no joy ride. That said, our avian doctor did a great job instructing how to do it and my partner did an absolutely amazing job of doing it. I just couldn't do it for some reason - chicken for sure. And she took the brunt of it because it took Ruby a couple months after to fully get comfortable with her again.  The good thing (and IMO the most important thing) is that you know for 100% that they are getting the full dosages. Just my 2 cents! Chris |
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tzdansker
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Post by tzdansker on Jun 13, 2019 5:34:07 GMT -7
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The good thing (and IMO the most important thing) is that you know for 100% that they are getting the full dosages.