Tylan Soluble Powder 100 gram
by Elanco Animal Health
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Elanco Animal HealthBrand: ELANCO D
Edition: Misc.
Publisher: Elanco Animal Health
Studio: Elanco Animal Health
Music Label: Elanco Animal Health
Product features:
- To treat chronic respiratory disease
- Contains 100gm Tylosin Tartrate/container
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Tylan Soluble Powder 100 gram
Customer Review: Finch eye disease? All fixed!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product's formulated and sold for livestock - chickens and swine, to be added to their water supply, but is also great for controlling respiratory infections in all other birds. It's a broad spectrum antibiotic that generally kills mostly gram positive bacteria but also specifically is renowned for controlling mycoplasma infections (usually considered a gram negative strain, but doesn't have all the characteristics of the rest of the gram negative bacteria).
Mycoplasma gallisepticum is the bacterial strain that causes conjunctivitis/eye disease and respiratory symptoms in many birds, most notably chickens (hence the on-label use) and in the wild, finches of all kinds. Standard ways to identify this disease, which is very contagious (to other birds) and which is spread the majority of the time by contaminated backyard feeders and water sources, is by finding birds with one or both eye sockets inflamed, sometimes closed (red or weeping eyes, crusty), and the birds have trouble breathing, are wiping their beaks and eyes on everything, and sit still, half blind, with their feathers disorganized, unwilling to fly off. It's somewhat like a cold, if the a cold also gave you pink eye, and if the cold killed you and all your friends off in a few weeks. If you have backyard feeders and are supplying water to wild birds, you're also helping to spread diseases to the birds you think you're helping, if you don't clean up after them, don't regularly disinfect feeders and water containers and don't take care of them (or remove all feeders) if you notice that you're helping spread disease around. The house finch population in particular has had heavy losses from mycoplasmal infections, which can usually easily be controlled by clean practices and eliminated (in affected birds) by using this antibiotic properly.
In any case, this product really does a great job at fixing up birds - in a day to a day and a half you will notice a big change in any sick bird you're taking care of or is visiting your backyard feeders. Make sure the treated water is the only source of water around, or this product is less effective and may fail entirely - or worse, help contribute to creating drug resistant strains of bacteria if you supply it at too low of a level. Treat flocks of birds for at LEAST 14 days, and up to 21 days. 4-7 days is really too short, and treating for 14 days should be the standard for use of this product, in any animal. This is not bleach or a disinfectant, and it needs prolonged time to eliminate bacteria that may be more resistant to it than some others.
The dosage for finches, song birds, and related (mourning doves, and larger birds are fine drinking from this dosage too), is 10mg/ml, or exactly half the dosage given on the bottle for chicken flocks. That's 1/4 tsp dissolved in a quart (or 1tsp per gallon) - add the water to the drug, ideally inside a water bottle or closed container, not vice versa, and shake. I recommend storing up to 3 days, and not making huge amounts ahead of time (hence the quart measure given - I give my birds 1 cup in a shallow dish by their regular water spot (no other water anywhere nearby) per day). The dosage is safe up to much higher amounts in small birds (20mg/ml, as in chicken) so if they drink more water in dry areas or on hot days, that's fine. Definitely don't dilute this product more than the above amount, and replace treated water daily. One bottle of this Tylan will make 100 gallons of treated water (or, in my case, 1600 (!) daily dishes full of treated water).
Remember, clean up after your birds, sweep up old seed, disinfect their areas, feeders and water dishes at least weekly, and either take down all feeders for a few weeks if a sick bird comes around, or if it's treatable (and a common disease like mycoplasma) try this out, using the above protocols. It really really works! (And remember, keep treating them at least 14 days, even if they look totally fine after 3-5 days (which they will*)).
*I am writing this review four days after I received the product, after a half a dozen birds, previously half blind, lethargic/not moving, really sick looking, are now hopping around, flocking together (instead of being driven off by other birds), and even singing (the females) while they come out for seed.
edit: Sorry about the long and somewhat dry review. My background's in biology, so I didn't mean to come off as an product placement and it's just me rambling in my normal voice ;)
Description of Tylan Soluble Powder 100 gram
Tylan Soluble Powder is a water soluble product contains 100gm Tylosin Tartrate/container that is labeled for chickens and turkeys to treat chronic respiratory disease.Kitchen and Housewares
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