Britannia Ovens (esp Range cookers) your experience

[stoice]

My Blanch is on Baytril for a stuffy chest and she has citricidal in her water at the moment.

I've just ordered some respite which has arrived on my desk here at work (Pretty quick delivery from Wells Poultry as I only ordered it yesterday!). The label on it isn't much help for a mathematical numpty like myself. The doses provided on the label state:

Day 1: 1 litre to 600 litres of drinking water

Day 2: 1 litre to 400 litres of drinking water

Day 3: 1 litre to 200 litres of drinking water

 

I think it would take ages for Blanche to drink that much! LOL

 

As I only have the one glug to worry about, how much do i put in? (Not sure how much a glug holds either)

 

Thanks guys. Hopefully Blanche will soon see signs of improvement.

[alet_chicken]

Hi, a Glug holds 2.2 liters = 2200 ml of water.

 

On day 1, the dose is 1ml:600ml, so you should add 3.7ml of Respite to the water.

On day 2, the dose is 1ml:400ml, which means 5.5ml of Respite in the Glug.

On day 3, it's 1ml:200ml, so you need 11ml of Respite.

 

This is assuming that you empty and refill the Glug every day.

 

Are you planning on dosing all your chickens, or just Blanch? One girl will not empty the Glug in a week, never mind a day; they drink around half a pint a day (but there is wide variation). So if it's just the one girl, then I would recommend mixing a smaller amount (in the Glug or any other drinker).

[stoice]

Thanks alet_chicken. Perfect

 

She's in with Beryl at the moment as I thought separating them could only increase her stress and make her recovery slower. Would respite have a detrimental effect on Beryl? I'm thinking it's all natural additives so shouldn't harm Beryl should it? As I'm only using a small dose of respite in the grub I'll dose as you've worked out for me and tip away what is not drunk ready for the next day. After the three days, I'll carry on with citricidal. Unless it's ok to add citricidal and respite together? I'd prefer not to mix stuff really.

[alet_chicken]

I agree, not a good idea to mix things unnecessarily. Respite will do the same job as citricidal, except I understand it's a lot stronger.

 

I'm afraid I have no experience of respite, so can't say whether it would be harmful to a healthy chicken. My thinking would be that, if what Blanch has is contagious, then Beryl has a good chance of catching it anyway (or maybe she has it already), so dosing her may not be a bad idea.