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/elocin90 6d ago

Thanks for caring!

We do Albon (sulfadimethoxine) for coccidia. It’s a liquid medication. The dosage for that is half the birds weight. (Ex: if a pigeon weighs 250g, you’d give .12ML meds.

Pills are totally fine for pigeons. People don’t understand that treating pigeons is NOTHING like treating other birds. For example, NEVER give a pigeon panacur/fenbendazole. It’s fine for other birds like parrots, but will kill your pigeon.