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Dave, I wonder about feeding starter to a molting hen. Though it does have higher protein, I understand the "antibiotic" is actually an antacid. That the "antibiotic" had been in common use for ulcers before the new stuff some years ago. It seems to me that young chicks. like infants, can't digest food well as they don't produce stomach acid sufficiently. Fine, the antacid probably has some antibiotic activity on its own aside from reducing the production of acid.
I wonder if an adult bird, tho with a crop and not a usual stomach, produces _some_ digestive acid that also neutralizes bacteria and virus the bird consumes. That giving the antacid to an adult bird might leave it exposed to some bacteria and virus it was previously neutralizing.
I have a molting hen, my first, and fed it starter. Other of my birds ate the starter as well. The hen as become ill and an otherwise healthy roo now unhealthy stool.
Possible?
BillJ
Most chick starter have Amprolium (Coid) or Lasalocid Avatec (Bovatec) and neither one is a, "antacid"...
Chris
