DOXYMYCIN 50% POWDER FOR ORAL SOLUTION
COMPOSITION
Doxycycline (hyclate) 500 mg/g
TARGET SPECIES
Calves, lambs, swine, chickens, and turkeys
INDICATIONS
It is used for;
Swine (fattening pigs after weaning): Treatment of clinical respiratory infections caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Pasteurella multocida susceptible to doxycycline.
Chickens (broilers, broiler breeders) and turkeys (broilers, breeders): treatment of clinical respiratory infections associated with Mycoplasma gallisepticum susceptible to doxycycline.
Lambs and calves: Treatment and metaphylaxis of respiratory and digestive infections caused by micro-organisms susceptible to doxycycline.
USAGE AND DOSAGE
Practical dose:
20 mg /kg of bw/day, for 3-5 consecutive days, to be dissolved in drinking water in chicken and turkeys and milk replacer or liquid feed in calves, lambs and swine.
WITHDRAWAL PERIOD(S)
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Calves and lambs: Meat and offal: 14 days |
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Chickens: Meat and offal: 7 days Egg: Not authorised for use in laying birds producing eggs for human consumption. Do not use within 4 weeks of onset of the laying period. |
Swine:
Meat and offal:6 days
Turkeys:
Meat and offal:12 days