Bumblefoot can't cure!

[lou52]

Following.....
Do u have a pic?
I'm not sure if my girl does or not.
She can't walk.

 

[Davidhalpern2]

Third picture looks like bumble foot early stage

 

[Davidhalpern2]

My vet gave me clindamycin hydrochloride for mine so (she seems fine) I guess it's okay for chickens. I gave her 1/2 cc per day.

However this is the chicken that seems to have a spot of the infection still left. I am watching it to see if I am going to have to open it up to dig it out.

What is the withdrawal perriod before you can eat eggs after giving Clindamyacin

 

[welasharon]

I don;'t have a clue but she has been molting and isn't laying so I figure the usual two or three weeks would suffice...? I've never seen it referred to before for use in chickens so I don't know how one would find out. Good question.

 

[Davidhalpern2]

My Vet ordered Clindamyacin injectable for me. He recommended 1/2 cc daily for 7 days. What would be the withdrawal period before consuming her eggs post treatment?

 

[Davidhalpern2]

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Some probiotics would help with the diarrhea. Are you certain the current swelling is not pus? I have not checked to see whether clindamycin can be used in poultry, but in dogs, cats and humans. It is superior for penetrating to clear the bacterial infection. The infection may be resistant to Pen G. Since Neosporin isn't helping, try silver sulfadiazine cream to pack the wound after soaking in


My Vet ordered Clindamyacin injectable for me. He recommended 1/2 cc daily for 7 days. What would be the withdrawal period before consuming her eggs post treatment?

 

[welasharon]

Mine is listed as ClinDrops and then has the actual name under that. I guess we would need someone who understands how this is metabolized by the chicken to figure out a withdrawal time?

 

[Eggcessive]

Quote: Here is a link that says 7 days. http://www.fartovet.com/XXLR1.ASP?ID=151

 

[welasharon]

Would the liquid withdrawal be the same?

 

[kittydoc]

I am not sure that clindamycin is technically approved for use in poultry (it probably isn't), but when you are talking about a bird with pet features (as the original poster described) that you want to save and make well, not a bird whose eggs or meat are for commercial sale, then "unapproved" or "off label" (for that species) medications can be used. I do not know how long the withdrawal period is for clindamycin in chickens, for either eggs or meat. I am not a poultry or avian veterinarian--I just know that the usual injectable stuff that's out there without a prescription (like Tylan) probably wouldn't work for bumblefoot, and since Pen G wasn't effective, you needed something different. If your vet ordered the clindamycin injectable for you, it's up to him/her to inform you about what the withdrawal period might be. When in doubt, two weeks is a good general guideline. However, it looks like there was a post made while I was working on this one that ways 28 days for meat, 7 for eggs. Good to know!

I have never used an injectable form of clindamycin in treating small animals (oral only), so I'm not sure what it will do in terms of stinging/smarting and/or damaging the breast muscle, at least temporarily. In humans, it does cause injection site pain in our muscles, so I expect it will do so in chickens, too.

The problem with giving oral medication to chickens is that you really have to use a tube to do it 100% safely, and tubing a chicken is not for the faint-hearted. Once you learn how to do it, and have a competent helper, it's not that difficult, but if you screw up placing the esophageal/crop tube, the substance will go right into the respiratory system and can cause chemical pneumonia or worse.

If chickens weren't such a pain to medicate orally, we'd have more options. Giving small amounts of liquid medication can work OK, but it is still subject to being inhaled. It depends on the skill of the owner, the taste of the stuff to the chicken, and the cooperation of the chicken in question.

Here is a link to a chart about many of the most commonly used poultry medications. I am not endorsing this page in a professional capacity, but it seems to be pretty good.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

Lincomycin, which is related to clindamycin (both are macrolides, same general class), IS on this chart, but it still doesn't provide withdrawal period information. It says that lincomycin injectable can be given orally, but I don't know about clindamycin injectable. As another participant said, there is already a form of liquid clindamycin on the market for veterinary use. It tastes absolutely terrible to people (nasty metallic taste), but chickens don't have the same taste receptors that we do, so I have no idea if it will taste as bad to them as it does to mammals (us, dogs, cats).

I will say that if a penicillin or amoxicillin isn't helping with bumblefoot generally, lincomycin is probably the next thing to try for chickens, since it's on this list. Baytril (enrofloxacin) is also on the list, but with some serious warnings.

What an individual decides to do for his or her birds, and its withdrawal period, is for the owner to check with their own veterinarian who supplies any "off label" medication, such as clindamycin appears to be for chickens. I offer my opinions to help on the list, but I am not an pet bird or poultry specialist. I'm a a small veterinarian who is also a backyard flock owner. That's it.