Treatment For Hexamita

[Borntobewild 0]

Hi guys I have a problem with the pheasants and partridges due to the bad weather we have had, the stress of being released and everything they have developed hexamita. We have tyres everything but they are still loosing weight and dying. Since we can not use emtryl anymore I have heard that tetracycline is an effective treatment has anyone trying this ? I will extremely grateful for any useful comments.

[longdog98 7]

Tetsol should do the trick pal

[danw 1,748]

How have you determined they have hexamita have you had any pm'd? what does your vet recommend?

If you have hexy I personally wouldn't waste time nor money on tetsol if you are loosing birds you need a more aggressive treatment I would use either soludox or hydrodox and denagard you will see massive improvement within 3 days.

[Borntobewild 0]

thank you for the suggestions guys. yes we got confirmation from the vets that it was hexy. what is wrong with tetsol then is it more of a preventative than a treatment or does it not work that well ? The vet said that there wasent much we could do. were can I get those treatments from and are they effective ??

[georgegml 0]

Try giving some glucose as a boost when they die its usually starvation that does it might be enough to get them eating again

[danw 1,748]

thank you for the suggestions guys. yes we got confirmation from the vets that it was hexy. what is wrong with tetsol then is it more of a preventative than a treatment or does it not work that well ? The vet said that there wasent much we could do. were can I get those treatments from and are they effective ??

I would f**k that vet off sharpish you need a poultry vet,tetsol is fine as a preventative or a mild case but you are loosing birds and every minute you wait with hexy counts it will just get worse any sensible bird vet will have soludox and denagard they are pom only meds so you need a script.and yes they are very affective

[Borntobewild 0]

haha will do. thank you very much I will ask another vet for soludox or denagard. have you heard anything about tetracycline ?

[danw 1,748]

Yep I have CTC (chlortetracyclene hydrochloride)added to some of my feed for when the birds first arrive it's product name is Aurofac 250g I have it included at 1.6kg per tonne to give 400g per tonne of active ingredient as a preventative just to help with the move from game farm to wood it can also help stop the poults from shitting from all the new insects and other crap they eat when they first get to wood I wouldn't use it to treat chronic hexy though

[longdog98 7]

Good call Dan. I have always found tetsol pretty effective, but the first sign of the yellow frothies they get put on it. As with all these things acting quickly is the key

[willum 89]

run some denygaurd through them we have always used this whn we've had hexy should start to see improvements in aday or 2

[Borntobewild 0]

Thank you guys very much couldn't have asked for better advice I will try everything I can.

[danw 1,748]

dosage for denagard 12.5% is 10ml per 5L for 5-7 days

dosage for soludox is 6g per 5L for 5-7 days

 

doesn't hurt to follow it with solulyte to help rehydrate

[Borntobewild 0]

thanks very much guys the birds are looking better than ever I haven't picked up a sick one in ages. the nice weather has helped so much, the most recent ones we have released look brilliant and no signs of disease.

[Pigs 73]

Vets gave us caradox last yr mate & seemed to do the trick,some say try dennyguard wi it but caradox alone sorted ours. Sends the drinkers black tho

[Grinder 102]

We use caradox too, 3ml per ltr if the birds get it 1ml per ltr for prevention