Duck eggs after antibiotics.

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Good morning all! I was wondering if anyone could help me. I had a 7.5 month old duck on antibiotics for about a week and a day. She stopped laying prior to the antibiotics due to injury. Her antibiotics were stopped on Saturday morning. (Last does as prescribed ) This morning (5 days later) she started laying. How long after the antibiotics are done can we start to eat the eggs again?
 
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Buckbuckbeck said:
Good morning all! I was wondering if anyone could help me. I had a 7.5 month old duck on antibiotics for about a week and a day. She stopped laying prior to the antibiotics due to injury. Her antibiotics were stopped on Saturday morning. (Last does as prescribed ) This morning (5 days later) she started laying. How long after the antibiotics are done can we start to eat the eggs again?
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Welcome to BYC! What antibiotic?

-Kathy
 
Enrofloxacin .75 ml 2x a day orally 8 days and vetropolycin HC eye ointment 2 to 3 times a day 5 days.
The eye ointment she has been off for 6 days. The oral antibiotics she has been off for 5 days
 
Buckbuckbeck said:
Enrofloxacin .75 ml 2x a day orally 8 days and vetropolycin HC eye ointment 2 to 3 times a day 5 days.
The eye ointment she has been off for 6 days. The oral antibiotics she has been off for 5 days
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Enrofloxacin is banned for use in poultry used for food, so if you go by that, you should never eat the eggs or meat of a bird that's been treated with it, but if you look up actual withdrawal info, I think it takes 5 days for the drug to not show up in eggs. I use enrofloxacin here and don't worry about it.

-Kathy
 
casportpony said:
Enrofloxacin is banned for use in poultry used for food, so if you go by that, you should never eat the eggs or meat of a bird that's been treated with it, but if you look up actual withdrawal info, I think it takes 5 days for the drug to not show up in eggs. I use enrofloxacin here and don't worry about it.

-Kathy
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How would you do that if you have several layers with one having been on enrofloxacin? Keep her separated at night? She wouldn't do so well with that. My girl was on it almost a few months ago and the vet said would be in her eggs for 3 months. She's a new layer so right now I can tell her eggs from the others cause the size and shape is different. I wonder if there's a kind of cleanse that can be done to flush it out of her system? Why is it banned, because of its effects on the bird or length of time in the system...? If I had known this before I would've requested a different antibiotic. Ours was on it because she was attacked by a fox
 

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