Tet-Sol 324

Manufacturer: Alpharma

Tetracycline Hydrochloride Soluble Powder

Antibiotic

For Use In Drinking Water

For Swine, Calves, And Poultry

Each pound contains 324 g of tetracycline hydrochloride activity.

This package contains 810 g of tetracycline hydrochloride activity.

Store below 77° F (25° C)

Tet-Sol 324 Indications - Chickens

Control of chronic respiratory disease (CRD air sac disease) caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Escherichia coli; infectious synovitis caused by Mycoplasma synoviae sensitive to tetracycline hydrochloride.

Recommended Dosage Level

Crd Air Sac Disease

Use soluble powder in the drinking water at a drug level of 400-800 mg tetracycline hydrochloride per gallon per day

Infectious Synovitis

Use soluble powder in the drinking water at a drug level of 200-400 mg tetracycline hydrochloride per gallon per day

Precautions

Not for use in chickens producing eggs for human consumption. Do not use for more than 14 consecutive days.

Directions For Use

Administer for 7-14 days. Medicate at first clinical signs of disease or when experience indicates the disease may be a problem.

Warning Do not slaughter birds for food within 4 days of treatment.

Tet-Sol 324 Indications - Turkeys

Control of infectious synovitis caused by Mycoplasma synoviae; bluecomb (transmissible enteritis, corona viral enteritis) complicated by organisms sensitive to tetracycline hydrochloride.

Recommended Dosage Level

Infectious Synovitis

Use soluble powder in the drinking water at a drug level of 400 mg tetracycline hydrochloride per gallon per day

Bluecomb

Use soluble powder in the drinking water at a drug level of tetracycline hydrochloride per gallon to provide 25 mg/pound of body weight per day in divided doses.

Precautions

Not for use in turkeys producing eggs for human consumption. Do not use for more than 14 consecutive days.

Directions For Use

Administer for 7-14 days. Medicate at first clinical signs of disease or when experience indicates the disease may be a problem.

Warning Do not slaughter birds for food within 4 days of treatment.

Tet-Sol 324 Indications - Swine And Calves

Control and treatment of bacterial enteritis (scours) caused by Escherichia coli; bacterial pneumonia associated with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella spp., Klebsiella spp. sensitive to tetracycline hydrochloride.

Recommended Dosage Level

Use soluble powder in the drinking water at a drug level of tetracycline hydrochloride per gallon to provide 10 mg/pound of body weight per day in divided doses.

Precaution

Do not use for more than 5 consecutive days.

Directions For Use

Administer for 3-5 days.

Warning: Swine - Do Not Slaughter Animals For Food Purposes Within 4 Days Of Treatment. calves - Do Not Slaughter Animals For Food Purposes Within 5 Days Of Treatment. A Withdrawal Period Has Not Been Established For This Product In Pre-ruminating Calves. Do Not Use In Calves To Be Processed For Veal.

general Precautions

Prepare fresh solutions at least once a day. Solutions are not stable for more than 24 hours. Use as a sole source of tetracycline. Deliver the recommended dosage level in divided doses. Diagnosis should be reconsidered if improvement is not noticed within 3 days. The concentration of drug required in medicated water must be adequate to compensate for variations in the age and class of animals, feed consumption, and environmental temperature and humidity, each of which affects water consumption.

Mixing Directions For Turkeys, Swine And Cattle

40 oz dissolved in 8000 ml (approximately 2.1 gallons) of warm water will provide a stock solution of 100 mg of tetracycline hydrochloride activity per ml. This stock solution, when metered at approximately 1 ounce/gallon, will provide drinking water containing 2957 mg of tetracycline hydrochloride activity per gallon for turkeys.

The contents of this packet are sufficient to deliver the recommended daily dosage levels as follows:

At 25 mg/pound of body weight - 32,400 total pounds of turkeys to be medicated in divided doses.

At 10 mg/pound of body weight - 81,000 total pounds of calves or swine to be medicated in divided doses.

Individual calf treatment - 5 ml (1 measuring teaspoonful) twice daily for each 100 pounds body weight administered as a drench or by dose syringe.

Mixing Directions For Chickens And Turkeys

To arrive at the recommended dosages, prepare stock solutions as follows:

200 mg/gallon - dissolve 1 packet (40 oz) in 121,120 ml warm water (32 gallons)

400 mg/gallon - dissolve 1 packet (40 oz) in 60,560 ml warm water (16 gallons)

800 mg/gallon - dissolve 1 packet (40 oz) in 30,280 ml warm water (8 gallons)

These stock solutions should then be metered into drinking water at approximately 1 ounce per gallon. At 200-800 mg/gallon this packet will medicate 1012 to 4050 gallons of drinking water.

Special Directions For Baby Calves And Baby Pigs

Administer this product 1 hour before or 2 hours after feeding milk or milk replacers. Provide clean (unmedicated) drinking water at all times.

Note

This product is to be administered twice a day in the drinking water of swine, calves and poultry. One half of the recommended daily dosage level of antibiotic is to be consumed during each administration period, thus providing the drug in divided doses.

For Animal Use Only

Restricted Drug (California) - Use only as directed.

Alpharma Inc., 440 Route 22, Bridgewater, NJ 08807

NADA #65-140, Approved by FDA

Trademarks registered by Alpharma Inc.

Net Weight	List #
40 oz (1134 Grams)	33924	33924BF 0708

Nac No.

10220612