Turkey breeding is a serious business or occupation that provides tasty dietary meat for home consumption. Turkeys have good survival rate and large muscle mass. But diseases also occur among this bird. This is especially dangerous on farms or in estates with a small number of buildings, which does not allow isolating sick individuals. Baytril is a medicine for turkeys that helps with many common and very dangerous infections.
Composition and release form
"Baytril" is a drug for the treatment of turkeys, produced by the German company Bayer. It is a 10% solution of enrofloxacin. Baytril for oral use is sold packaged in glass bottles with aluminum caps. On the cardboard packaging and bottle of Baytril, the brand name is depicted in the form of two colored curved stripes (green and blue).
Bottle volume: 100 milliliters and 1000 milliliters. The picture of chicken and turkey on the vessel allows the poultry farmer to easily find the product he is looking for. For small farms, sets of 1 milliliter Baytril ampoules, 50 pieces each, are suitable. The color of the solution is yellow.
In what cases is it used?
Baytril is used for bacterial and viral infections, as well as fungal diseases in turkeys. Prescription of the drug is possible in case of re-infection and infection with mixed pathogens. The following pathogens are sensitive to enrofloxacin:
| Name | Caused by whom | Signs |
| Colibacillosis or Escherichiosis | Escherichia coli | Diarrhea in young animals. |
| Hemophilosis | Coccus-like rods | Fluid is released from the eyes, nose, and beak, and the head swells. More common in month-old turkey poults. |
| Salmonellosis | Bacteria | Newborn turkey poults have no appetite, thirst, shortness of breath, whitish-yellow semi-fluid diarrhea, and death throes. |
| Necrotic enteritis | Bacteria | Disheveled appearance, lack of movement, blood in the droppings. |
| Streptococcosis | Bacteria | Ruffled feathers in turkey poults, conjunctivitis. There may be cramps and diarrhea, joint damage. |
| Hepatitis | Virus | Lethargy, poor appetite, blue skin on the head in small and adult turkeys. |
| Mycoplasmosis | Bacteria | Purulent fluid from the nose clogs the airways. The bird rubs its nose and head on the ground, wheezes and coughs.Swollen joints, unsteady gait. Without help, turkey poults quickly suffocate. |
| Marek's disease | Virus | Paralysis of limbs, blindness, lethargy, loss of appetite. |
Instructions for using Baytril for turkeys
Baytril is prescribed to turkey poults from the first days of life. 5 milliliters of the drug are diluted in 10 liters of water. Drink for 3-5 days. Salmonellosis, mixed infections and chronic forms of ailments in turkeys are treated with a double dose of enrofloxacin. “Baytril” is a weak antibiotic, therefore, when painful symptoms are discovered in birds, they use it first. After using stronger medications, Baytril will not work.
Side effects and contraindications
Additional painful symptoms after taking Baytril are rarely observed in turkeys. Possible short-term liquefaction of stool. If the disorder lasts more than a day, the drug is replaced with another and a course is conducted with the birds to get rid of the problem that has arisen.
Enrofloxacin is ineffective against streptococcal infections. If any are identified, there is no need to try to use it. Enrofloxacin is also not given for the purpose of disease prevention.
For breeding, eggs from turkeys laid 2 weeks after treatment with Baytril are used. Meat and eggs from recovered birds are consumed if they are slaughtered no earlier than 11 days after completion of treatment. Under other circumstances, the product may be fed to animals.
Storage conditions
Baytril is kept at temperatures from +5 °C to +25 °C. Shelf life – 3 years. The storage place should be dark and inaccessible to children.After opening the bottle, Baytril is guaranteed to retain its properties for 14 days if it is left in concentrated form in the original packaging.
Analogs
“Baytril”, as a well-proven medicine from the world famous company Bayer, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary, is also being sought to be released by other companies. There are a number of analogues with the active ingredient enrofloxacin that produce a similar therapeutic effect on turkeys.
| Name | Manufacturer | Packing |
| "Enrosol" | "Agrovetzaschita S.P. NVC LLC" (Russia) | 100, 200 and 500 ml in dark glass vials, 0.5 l, 1 l, 2.5 or 5 l in polymer containers with screw caps. |
| "Enrofloxacin 100" | Hebei Yuanzheng Pharmaceutical, Co. Ltd. (China) | 1 liter in plastic bottles. |
| "Noroflox" 10% | "O.L.KAR.-AgroZooVet-Service" (Ukraine) | Glass ampoules 1 each; 2; 5 and 10 ml in packs of cardboard or polymer containers of 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 milliliters, 1 l, 2 l, 5 l, 10 l. |
| "Enroflon" 10% | "VIK" - animal health, "IPUP" (Republic of Belarus) | 5 ml – glass; 1 l – glass or plastic bottles; 5 liters each - plastic canisters. Sets of 5 ml bottles – 10 pcs. in cardboard boxes. |
| "Enroflox" 10% | Invesa (Spain) | 100 milliliters, 1 liter each in a polymer container with a tamper evident ring. |
The shelf life of Baytril analogues is 2-3 years, in a ready-made drinking solution – 1 day.
