Can chickens eat their own eggs during deworming withdrawal period?

[katelk]

When deworming the chickens there is a pretty significant withdrawal period for the eggs. I hate for them to go to waste and I was wondering if those eggs can be cooked and fed back to the chickens safely?

 

[Suzie]

No! The residue of the de-wormer is in the eggs...never feed chickens eggs after you have de-wormed...you can probably feed them to dogs or cats...BUT please check with your Vet before considering this!

 

[katelk]

To the compost the eggs go! lol thanks!

 

[cafarmgirl]

I agree, don't feed them back to the chickens and don't feed them to your dogs/cats either. Reason being is that there is dewormer residue in the eggs as Suzie said, so by feeding them to any animal you are feeding low levels of dewormer residue. That is a good way to help parasites build resistence to these products.

 

[Michael Apple]

When deworming the chickens there is a pretty significant withdrawal period for the eggs. I hate for them to go to waste and I was wondering if those eggs can be cooked and fed back to the chickens safely?

Why would you feed eggs to your chickens?