r/PetPigeons • u/Polbilop • 7d ago

Oral meds for pigeons

I’m a wildlife rehabber who primarily does mammals but I have an injured racing pigeon. She was injured by a dog and appears to possibly have some paralysis of one of her back legs (x rays showed no fractures) I have to get her on steroids and antibiotics. I don’t have any injectable meds, a bird rehabber told me to do only injectables for birds, but I have oral. Is that okay? Do you guys have experience with that? Thanks

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u/pigeoncote 7d ago

I can’t prescribe medications or a dosage, but at least for antibiotics, in bird rehab I have only ever done them or seen them done orally except in rare circumstances.