Exotic Animal Formulary5

1-2 days 38,135 pigeons, psittacines
20-30 mg/kg PO q24h × 5
days 20,747
Passerines/Trichomonas; house
finches reliably cleared
Trichomonas gallinae if
caught prior to clinical
signs
30 mg/kg PO once 256 Raptors/Trichomonas
30 mg/kg PO q12-24h × 3
days 382,654
30-50 mg/kg PO, repeat
in 10-14 days 667
Raptors/Trichomonas
Cockatiels/Giardia
33 mg/kg PO, repeat in Society finches, Gouldian
14 and 28 days 50 finches/flagellates;
0.5 mg/adult (based on
15 g); 0.25 mg/nestling
(based on 7.5 g)
50 mg/kg PO once 358 Raptors
120 mg/kg PO as single American kestrels, screech
dose or divided over owls/Trichomonas
2-5 days 811 infections resistant to
treatment with lower
doses
Chloroquine phosphate a — Generally used with
primaquine for
Plasmodium, Haemoproteus,
and Leucocytozoon;
overdose can result in
death 38
10 mg/kg PO q7d 333 Most species/preventive
treatment for Plasmodium
once bird is stable; use
with primaquine
(1 mg/kg PO q7d)
10 mg/kg PO, then
5 mg/kg at 6, 12,
18 hr, then q24h × 10
days 38,826
Magellanic penguins/upon
diagnosis of Plasmodium;
if still positive on blood
smear after this regime,
continue with
sulfadiazine-trimethoprim
40 mg/kg PO × 10 days
Raptors/use with 0.3 mg/kg
10 mg/kg PO, then
48 hr 120 following the initial
5 mg/kg at 6, 24, primaquine (at 24 hr
296