Exotic Animal Formulary5

Plough) days 333
5-7 mg/kg PO 806 Ostriches
10 mg/kg PO q12h × 5
days 333
10-25 mg/kg q12h × 5
days 194
Canaries/avoid use during
breeding season
Most species
20 mg/kg PO q24h × 10-
14 days 38,149a,432b Raptors/filarids
25 mg/kg PO q12h × 5
days 159
25 mg/kg PO q12h × 5
days, repeat q30d 358
Psittacines, ramphastids
(toucans)/nematodes;
may not be effective for
proventricular and
ventricular parasites
Raptors/intestinal
nematodiasis
50 mg/kg PO, repeat in Raptors/intestinal
10-14 days 358 nematodiasis
10-20 mg/L drinking
water × 3-5 days 194,333
Pigeons
Mefloquine HCl (Lariam,
Hoffman-LaRoche)
— Antimalarial; active against
erythrocytic and tissue
schizonts of some
Plasmodium 659,793
30 mg/kg PO q12h × 1 Raptors
day, then q24h × 1-
2 days 385,432b,793,851
30 mg/kg PO q12h × 1
day, then q24h × 2
days, then q7d 432b
Raptors/long-term
administration up to 6
mo reported
30 mg/kg PO q7d 295 Penguins/Plasmodium routine
prevention during insect
season
50 mg/kg PO q24h 541 Raptors/Haemoproteus; used
in conjunction with
chloroquine at doses up
to 60 mg/kg
50 mg/kg PO q24h × 7
days 135
Raptors/Plasmodium
Melarsomine dihydrochloride
(Immiticide, Merial)
— Organic arsenical
0.25 mg/kg IM q24h × 4 Raptors/Leucocytozoon
307