A question about medicated feed

[gritsar]

In my one coop that has 8 month old layers, meat birds and a broody with chicks I have been feeding a feed called "allway kernels", a flock raiser type feed. It's non-medicated crumbles. Offering oyster shell on the side of course.

Due to an unexpected snow storm the other day my regular feed store was closed.

I was completely out of feed, so we traveled to another feed store but their choices were limited.

All I could find for mama and her chicks was medicated game bird starter. It's crumble, medicated with bicatracin, 28% protein. The rest of the flock in that coop are now back on layer pellets.

Is this going to be okay for my week and a half old chicks to eat, when previously they were eating non-medicated. I've fed medicated to chicks in the past, but it was medicated with amprolium and I fed it from the start, not after a week.

Should I only feed it until I can put them back on their regular feed or is it okay to go ahead and finish up the 50# bag?

TIA

 

[chickenforever24]

I switch feeds with my chickens all the time and never had a problem.

 

[ranchhand]

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No longer than absolutely necessary. You really don't want any of them on antibiotics when not needed. Hie thee to the feed store asap, woman!

 

[gritsar]

And Ranchy, you come explain to my darling Keith why I have an almost 50# bag of feed that I won't feed.

The feed bins are kept on the front porch - one for scratch, one for layer pellets, one for the chicks food and one for DE. It's starting to look like a freakin' feedstore out there.