Sulmet® Soluble Powder (sodium sulfamethazine) is a water-soluble antibiotic for use in drinking water for beef cattle, cattle, swine, chickens, and turkeys. This 20 lb pail contains 1 lb packets of powder. Readily soluble in drinking water or can be used as a drench.

Indications:

• Cattle: Treatment of Bacterial Pneumonia and Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex (Pasteurella spp.), Colibacillosis (Bacterial Scours) (Escherichia coli), Necrotic Pododermatitis (Fusobacterium necrophorum), Calf Diphtheria (Fusobacterium necrophorum), Acute Metritis (Streptococcus spp.)
• Swine Porcine Colibacillosis (Bacterial Scours) (Escherichia coli)
• Chicken: Control of Infectious Coryza (Avibacterium paragallinarum), Coccidiosis (Eimeria tenella, Eimeria necatrix), Acute Fowl Cholera (Pasteurella multocida), Pullorum Disease (Salmonella Pullorum)
• Turkeys: Coccidiosis (Eimeria meleagrimitis, Eimeria adenoeides)

Dosage:

• Cattle, Calves, and Swine:
  • 1st Day: 6 tbsp for each 100 lb body weight, providing approximately 108 mg/lb body weight
  • 2nd, 3rd, 4th Days: 3 tbsp for each 100 lb body weight, providing approximately 54 mg/lb body weight
• Poultry:
  • Add 2 tbsp to each gallon, or one gallon of stock solution to 128 gallons
  • Following administration directions, this will provide a recommended dose of approximately 58 to 85 mg/lb/day body weight in chickens and 50 to 124 mg/lb/day body weight in turkeys, depending upon the dosage, age, class of chickens or turkeys, ambient temperature and other factors

Warnings:

• Do not medicate chickens or turkeys producing eggs for human consumption
• To avoid drug residues in edible flesh withdraw medication from chickens and turkeys 10 days prior to slaughter for food
• Treated cattle must not be slaughtered for at least 10 days after the last dose
• Exceeding 5 consecutive days of treatment may cause violative tissue residue to remain beyond the withdrawal time
• Do not use in calves under 1 month of age or calves being fed an all-milk diet. Use in these classes of calves may cause violative residues to remain beyond the withdrawal time
• Do not use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age or older. Use of sulfamethazine in this class of cattle may cause milk residues
• Withdraw medication from swine 15 days prior to slaughter for food

Contents: [20] 1 lb packets