Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Chlamydiosis in lovebirds
Message-ID: <9397@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 22:26:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.214641.28649@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <3040002@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <3040002@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> susan@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Susan Baker) writes:
>I have been through this with some of the larger hookbills. My initiation
>to the treatment was similar to yours - oral tetracycline twice a day
>for 45 days. Result - one well bird, afraid of people. Since then (1985)
>I have instead used an injectible tetracycline which is given once per
>week for about 3 weeks.

   Another alternative is to feed medicated pellets if the bird is
accustomed to eating pellets (or will take to them readily).  I know
that both Lafeber and Ziegler make a medicated pellet which you should
be able to buy either directly or from a vet.

  Stewart
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