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Powdered medication in corn?

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This may seem like an odd question, but if you feed dry pellets or corn, how do you get powdered medication to stick to it and not blow away, or gather at the bottom of the food bowl?

Our chickens are fed corn (but they free range and eat kitchen scraps too) and this is a problem we encounter feeding mineral mixes, and our new worming medication. How to get it to stick, without making the corn damp and inviting bacteria and mould (esp since its hot here now). Any thoughts?
Got my first chicken when I was a year old, my Mother grew up with chickens, and so did her parents, and yet still I learn something new about them every day!

1 Salmon Faverolle, 1 Indian Game and a cross breed cockerel, plus 5 adorable Belgian and Belgian/Modern Game cross. We seem to collect the chickens family and friends don't want - makes for an interesting flock!
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Got my first chicken when I was a year old, my Mother grew up with chickens, and so did her parents, and yet still I learn something new about them every day!

1 Salmon Faverolle, 1 Indian Game and a cross breed cockerel, plus 5 adorable Belgian and Belgian/Modern Game cross. We seem to collect the chickens family and friends don't want - makes for an interesting flock!
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Could you grind it up, making a mash?  Easier to mix powders in that.  And you could wet enough for their daily feed, making a cold porridge.  They should like that.  Soaking pellets in water to break them up works as well.

I don't get better with age, only more confused(ing).

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I don't get better with age, only more confused(ing).

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What medication are you trying to mix in your "feed"?

Mineral and Wormers ain't medications. Is there a reason for not using poultry feed? That would eliminate the need to add a mineral mix as for the wormer I use Ivormec and fenbendazole which are both liquid.

 

 

Chris


Edited by Chris09 - 6/20/12 at 9:12am

 

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NPIP # 31-516
Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities http://sppa.webs.com/

Breeding Large Fowl Single and Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds to APA Standard


"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares." – 

George Washington

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