How Long Before it is Safe to Eat Eggs again after treating w/ Tylan?

[The Monkey Mama]

We just treated our whole flock with Tylan to cure an eye infection they were passing around [it worked great BTW!].

They finished the course yesterday. For how long should I discard the eggs before they are safe to eat again after treatment?

Thanks!

Kelly

 

[Feafur]

After 30 days, all of the eggs effected by the Tylan should be out of their system. This is just another way the FDA gets hyper hysterical about stuff. I can see not eating the eggs for 30 days, but NOT forever. Especially if you can eat a COW that's been on it after only 21 days. This is the same FDA that tells us we can eat genetically modified food and NO raw milk.

 

[dawg53]

Quote:
Tylan injectable has a 7 day withdrawal period. Tylan soluable powder has a 1 day withdrawal period.

 

[The Monkey Mama]

Does anyone know?

 

[Fergie]

Won't it say on the package label?

 

[The Monkey Mama]

I don't see it anywhere on the package label.

Kelly

 

[toredano]

I think its a week or 10 days or maybe 2 weeks? do a search for Tylan..I am sure lots of posts will come up regarding that subject

 

[The Monkey Mama]

LOL - well, my search came up with everything from "no need to wait" to "discard for 7-10 days" to "discard for 2 weeks". Guess I'll discard for 2 weeks to be 100% safe!

Kelly

 

[Fergie]

That's what I'd do, too. The thought of eating antibiotic tainted eggs isn't appetizing, is it?

 

[kycklingmamma]

It is supposedly never safe to eat those eggs again, since Tylan is not fda approved for egg producing poultry....that being said, I used it this past fall, before we know about that and waited a full month before we ate eggs from those girls again. I cooked up over 12 eggs a day and gave back to the flock because I was not about to throw all those eggs out...during this time we hade several double yolkers, I guess because the increased protein. I will now not give the hens tylan, only my roosters...if it is severe enough..