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6/29/12 at 11:45am

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I had some chicks turn up as roos and my hubby butcherd them but they had been on medicated chick starter is it safe to eat them? They had purina start and grow. The active ingrediant is amprolium. Thank you

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6/29/12 at 11:52am

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Chicken* medicated* lol

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6/29/12 at 3:39pm

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Anybody please?

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6/29/12 at 4:11pm

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Of course, what do you think is in chicken from the store. on the butchering

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6/29/12 at 4:11pm

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Thanks so much!

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6/30/12 at 4:39pm

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I'd eat them.

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7/10/12 at 4:56am

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For future reference, Amprolium does not have a withdrawal time, so you can eat them at any time. However, you can usually google search something like "(drug name) FDA withdrawal time" to bring up the recommendations from FDA for the minimum amount of time you should wait.

Sadly, soon to be chickenless :(

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7/10/12 at 11:46pm

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I'm eating mine. But in the future I'm cutting it out 1 month before slaughter if I have medicated feed. Here in Hawaii, organic feed is $44.00 a bag for un medicated. The feed I use for young chickens is milled here in the islands and is medicated.$ 22.50 per bag.

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7/12/12 at 8:33pm

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There is a withdraw period for layers though, which would make me hesitant... no matter what big brother says.

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7/12/12 at 8:47pm

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medicated usually means antibiotics and antibiotics are bad unless you got a bad bacterial infection. using antibiotics as a preventative medicine is a bad no no in animals and humans because the bug can build up resistance to the antibiotic if it is not used properly. The way i look at it is why medicate if there is no sickness. Everybody should be informed about this. Keep it simple when it comes to feeding our animals children and family.