Instructions for the use of enrofloxacin for birds

The modern specificity of raising chickens can be different depending on the goals pursued. It can be business or home content for personal use. In spite of this, any chicks can be susceptible to diseasesthat can harm your farm.

In this article you can get acquainted with detailed instructions for the use of antibacterial and anti-infectious drugs for birds - enrofloxacin.

What diseases is enrofloxacin used for?

Enrofloxacin is a broad-acting drug, which is used in the treatment of bacterial and mycoplasma diseases of poultry and pigs. The tool is able to significantly suppress the development and reproduction of coccoid bacteria.

The action of the drug is aimed at maximizing the healing of chicks and effectively used for the following diseases:

• Mycoplasmosis;
• Colibacillosis;
• Pasteurellosis;
• Hemophilia;
• Infectious rhinitis;
• Necrotic enteritis;
• Salmonellosis;
• Campylobacteriosis hepatitis;
• Streptococcosis;
• Infections mixed and secondary type.

How to apply for chicks: chickens, broilers and others

Enrofloxacin is used exclusively by the oral route, that is, inside through the mouth of the chicks. This drug begins to act several hours after it enters the digestive tract of the bird. The use of enrofloxacin is to dilute it in water in certain proportions. Further the solution is poured into the drinking bowl and placed to the birds instead of ordinary water for round-the-clock drinking. The treatment lasts five to six days.

The solution must be prepared every day based on an approximate calculation of daily consumption bird of water. Throughout the entire treatment period, the bird should only be provided with water with the addition of a medicinal product.

• for chickens - 5 ml per 10 liters of water;
• for broiler chickens - 50 ml per 100 liters of water;
• for goslings - 50 ml per 100 liters of water;
• for turkeys - 50 ml per 100 liters of water;
• for other birds - 50 ml per 100 liters of water.

In this case, it is necessary to provide constant care and supervision of sick animals in order to avoid the threat of death.

Instructions for use for adult birds

The drug is not prescribed for adults., since it lacks elements that can heal adult animals.

Side effects

Drug the drug is prohibited for animals with severe hepatic and renal diseases... The use of enrofloxacin is not allowed in ruminant cattle, which have developed cicatricial digestion, as well as individual intolerance to fluoroquinolones.

It is not advisable to use this remedy for laying hens due to the possible accumulation of enrofloxacin in the eggs.

During the course of therapy long-term exposure of animals to direct sunlight should be limited... An overdose of enrofloxacin oral solution can provoke signs of dysbiosis and disturbances in the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. In such cases, it is necessary to suspend treatment with this drug and take measures to eliminate the symptoms that have appeared.

Accurate and strict adherence to the indicated dosages of the drug, which contains enrofloxacin, will avoid contraindications and side effects. However, today many specialists in the field of veterinary medicine and poultry farming exceed the recommended doses of the drug by two or three times... They attribute this to an increase in antibiotic resistance of viruses. Studies aimed at determining the exact dosages of the drug are still underway, but there are already opinions that such measures can provoke inhibited development and growth retardation of the bird's body.

To avoid side effects this drug must be used two hours before or four hours after using the above products.

Contraindications

Use of the drug prohibited in the following cases:

• Increased sensitivity animals to substances containing fluoroquinolone;
• Developed cicatricial digestion in ruminants;
• Breeding laying hens to obtain eggs, due to the undesirability of human consumption of eggs in which enrofloxacin is present.

Pharmacological properties

Enrofloxacin has the following pharmacological properties:

1. The drugs containing enrofloxacin belong to the fluoroquinolone community and have a powerful antibacterial effect.
2. Actively acts against gram-positive and gram-negative parasites and mycoplasmas.
3. Capable inhibit the formation of malic acid in microorganisms, which threatens to damage the integrity of DNA, by blocking DNA gyrase.
4. It has active process of absorption from the digestive tract of poultry and effective penetration into internal organs and tissues.
5. The most concentrated effect of the drug is observed after two hours from the moment of administration and operates for six hours.
6. Partially metabolized into a substance called ciprofloxacin, which is excreted from the body in the form of bile or feces.
7. A drug considered moderately dangerous substance according to the quality of the effect on the animal organism.

Having considered all the pharmacological properties and side effects of enrofloxacin, we found out that the drug is a synthetic antimicrobial agentcontaining fluoroquinolones. It is used for medicinal and prophylactic purposes against infectious diseases and to stimulate growth. It is also effectively used in the treatment of such severe infections as pneumonia, typhus, cystic fibrosis, etc.

It is applied in a convenient and simple way - dilution of the drug in drinking water.

It should be noted that in European countries there is a ban on the use of such antimicrobial agents. The reason for this prohibition is considered the emergence of resistance of microorganisms, that is, organisms capable of inducing human diseases. However, it should be noted that the threat of the emergence of resistance arises from the misuse of fluoroquinolones, that is, not following the recommendations of the instructions. An overabundance of the permissible level of substances in poultry products is considered a sign of such a process.