California - Northern

[ronott1]

Can someone explain why medicated starter is not good for chicks? It was recommended by the chicken-guy at our feed store, but I am wondering what the risks are in using it.

amprolium, works by blocking Thiamine so Thiamine has to be added to the feed for the chickens. If not added correctly, the deficiency can kill the chicks.

Suspected in the death of some chicks just last year locally.

 

[juststruttin]

anyone have bresse chicks or eggs for sale? please PM me your info, I have a lady interested in them

Yes, I do. I will pm you

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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Thank you! I would hope Thiamine would be formulated into the medicated feed, but will check for sure if I ever do use it.

 

[chickee]

Beautiful birds

Thank-you

Catdance produces some great looking Silkies.

Can someone explain why medicated starter is not good for chicks? It was recommended by the chicken-guy at our feed store, but I am wondering what the risks are in using it.





Candy, that is beautiful! So are your Silkies.

Here is your Buff/wheaten cross. She went broody 3 times last year, a very determined hen! Just wanted to show you how beautifully her beard and muffs came in this year (the wheaten girl also, but she doesn't like the camera!). The pictures don't do it justice, but the beard is huge.





My youngster is now obsessing over d'Anvers. I was wondering, if this hen goes broody this year, would you have any hatching d'Anvers eggs to sell? I recently got 2 sweet bantam Cochins from Chooklet, so they might be good brooders too. Also got a Silkie as another broody option.




We think d'Anvers could hang with the Serama flock.

The rooster is sweet. This is his party trick!


Hope all is well with you!
Lynda

Wow! She turned out beautiful! I love the big beards!! My blue wheaten Ameraucana rooster has a huge beard and he is passing it on to his offspring. Liz was just telling me her buff x blue wheaten hen is broody. All the chicks I hatched out of my buff Ameraucana hens have been a super broody bunch!

I just happen to have some d'Anver eggs incubating, due on Match 11th if you want chicks

The chicks will be the very, very rare khaki quail color and a mix from my khaki quail rooster x dun cuckoo hen. I just put those guys back into the pen with the porcelain and buff Columbian roosters, so there will be a variety of colors if you want eggs.

Your Seramas are adorable! What a great rooster! The d'Anvers are around the same size as the Seramas so the d'Anvers would do fine with them.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Well, since (as I understand from what I've read on here) blocking thiamin so that the cocci can't use it is the point of amprolium, adding thiamin to the feed would sort of defeat the purpose...

 

[ronott1]

Well, since (as I understand from what I've read on here) blocking thiamin so that the cocci can't use it is the point of amprolium, adding thiamin to the feed would sort of defeat the purpose...

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I also used Sulmet when I first started, but lost chicks before I read that it only treats two strains of chicken coccidia. Once I figured out the correct dose of Corid I stopped losing chicks.

I'm really confused, lol, is the "S" drug sulfadimethoxine (DiMethox and Albon), or is it something else? I honestly don't know much about it and since I have SMZ/TMP (Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim) for horses, I probably won't need to buy any other Sulfa drugs.

I really know nothing about it, but this is what my book says about sulfadimethoxine (DiMethox and Albon):






-Kathy

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Wow! She turned out beautiful! I love the big beards!! My blue wheaten Ameraucana rooster has a huge beard and he is passing it on to his offspring. Liz was just telling me her buff x blue wheaten hen is broody. All the chicks I hatched out of my buff Ameraucana hens have been a super broody bunch!

I just happen to have some d'Anver eggs incubating, due on Match 11th if you want chicks

The chicks will be the very, very rare khaki quail color and a mix from my khaki quail rooster x dun cuckoo hen. I just put those guys back into the pen with the porcelain and buff Columbian roosters, so there will be a variety of colors if you want eggs.

Your Seramas are adorable! What a great rooster! The d'Anvers are around the same size as the Seramas so the d'Anvers would do fine with them.

Oh, chicks are sooooo tempting, but I really want the boys to have the experience of seeing a broody hatch and raise the babies. (Plus it's less work for me!!) A variety pack sounds wonderful. I think the porcelains are particularly beautiful. Now we just have to wait for a broody.

It will be a race between the Silkie and your buff X.

 

[chiqita]

I also used Sulmet when I first started, but lost chicks before I read that it only treats two strains of chicken coccidia. Once I figured out the correct dose of Corid I stopped losing chicks. I'm really confused, lol, is the "S" drug sulfadimethoxine (DiMethox and Albon), or is it something else? I honestly don't know much about it and since I have SMZ/TMP (Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim) for horses, I probably won't need to buy any other Sulfa drugs. I really know nothing about it, but this is what my book says about sulfadimethoxine (DiMethox and Albon): -Kathy

Yes sulfadimethoxine is the s drug. I have typed it so many times the last few days my phone remembers it now!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Well, since (as I understand from what I've read on here) blocking thiamin so that the cocci can't use it is the point of amprolium, adding thiamin to the feed would sort of defeat the purpose...

Ooooooh, I get it.