Are all chicks vaccinated

[K0k0shka]

I know it is not good to switch feed once it is started and mine is non-medicated, the other feed from tsc is 4 dollars cheaper I will use this next year

That's not true. You can switch feed anytime you like. Why wait until next year? The only issue switching feed is if it's a different texture - crumble vs. pellets. Not all chickens like pellets and may refuse to eat them. And they are too big for young chicks. If it's all crumble though, it doesn't matter. The chickens may or may not notice you switched at all. If they notice, they may be picky for a while but they'll get over it. If you want protection against Coccidiosis, switch them to medicated feed now.

 

[MysteryChicken]

very unlikely that they got coccidiosis from the shavings. Much more likely that they got it from you.

I brood mine indoors, on towels, in clean brooders, yet sometimes mine will get it.

I keep mine indoors in a tote. I give the brooder a good cleaning with hot soapy water, & sanitizer before I put any chicks in it. So not sure how they'd be getting it from me. I wash my hands before I reach into the brooder for anything.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

I have been feeding this feed for 6 weeks and it is crumble

 

[K0k0shka]

Eggcessive is where I learned that from like some years ago.

You mean you read something somebody wrote on the internet some years ago, and that's the information you choose to trust? Even when you have chicks getting sick from a preventable disease?

 

[K0k0shka]

I have been feeding this feed for 6 weeks and it is crumbleView attachment 2636034

Switch them to medicated crumble and they'll be fine.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Thank you I will definitely do that.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You mean you read something somebody wrote on the internet some years ago, and that's the information you choose to trust? Even when you have chicks getting sick from a preventable disease?

Not like several years ago, but abit more recent.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@Eggcessive

 

[K0k0shka]

Not like several years ago, but abit more recent.

The timing doesn't matter. What I don't understand is that you have chicks getting sick, there is easy prevention, and yet you think said prevention doesn't work because somebody said so on the internet. You can read up on how Amprolium works to inhibit the protozoa and the mechanics of how medicated feed helps chicks. You can always choose not to use it, and that's fine, but saying it doesn't work is a different thing and is just not true.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The timing doesn't matter. What I don't understand is that you have chicks getting sick, there is easy prevention, and yet you think said prevention doesn't work because somebody said so on the internet. You can read up on how Amprolium works to inhibit the protozoa and the mechanics of how medicated feed helps chicks. You can always choose not to use it, and that's fine, but saying it doesn't work is a different thing and is just not true.

Maybe I shouldn't trust anyone here on BYC, which is where I got my information from, because it's on the internet?