Can you eat eggs if a chicken has had a week of antibiotics?

[sharonhen1]

My hen, Blanche had a injured eye and vet put her on antibiotics for 1 week. She is much better now. The vet said don't eat her eggs for a month. Do I really have to wait a month? She is with my other 6 chickens, It would be crewel to separate her. So We are discarding all the eggs.

 

[dunnmom]

What kind of antibiotics? I think that matters. I would probably do as the vet suggests. I had my girls on 10 days of low dose antibiotics while they had fowl pox, and the wait to eat the eggs was 2 weeks.

I only gave them the antibiotics as a prophylactic against secondary infections. I didn't discard the eggs, I just scrambled them and fed them back to the girls the whole time. Not that I would advise anyone to do that. I just hated the eggs going to waste.

 

[BlueBaby]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! I agree that you should do what the vet said.

 

[Folly's place]

When you feed the eggs back, you feed the antibiotics in those eggs back to the birds too, so you aren't doing what the egg withdrawal period is meant for; they are still getting the drug, at a much lower dose, likely to encourage drug resistance.
Just throw them out instead!
Mary

 

[dunnmom]

When you feed the eggs back, you feed the antibiotics in those eggs back to the birds too, so you aren't doing what the egg withdrawal period is meant for; they are still getting the drug, at a much lower dose, likely to encourage drug resistance.
Just throw them out instead!
Mary

To clarify, I was not advising her to do that. I only did it while they were still on the antibiotics. And the whole flock was on it, so no one got antibiotic eggs that wasn't taking them already. It would be a lot tougher if there was only one medicated chicken, and you can't tell who's egg is who's.

But, is there anything else you could do with the eggs so they aren't all just going in the trash for a month? Some secondary ideas might be of interest in a case like this.

 

[dunnmom]

Well, apparently you can use egg white in place of white glue for paper. And eggshells can be used in the garden, although probably would be safest in an ornamental garden, as opposed to an edibles garden. Egg whites can also be used as a beauty product, although I don't know how you'd feel about it on your face or hair. Just kicking around some ideas I found online.

 

[TAM Farm]

Can you put her in a pet carrier in the coop, or divide a small section of the coop so that she is isolated from the others but still can interact and see the rest of her sisters? You can put her in after they have layed for the day or at least after she lays hers.

 

[TAM Farm]

Can you put her in a pet carrier in the coop, or divide a small section of the coop so that she is isolated from the others but still can interact and see the rest of her sisters? You can put her out with the others, after they have layed for the day or at least after she lays hers. Maybe something like that would work?

 

[TAM Farm]

Sorry for the repetitive reply.

 

[Outpost JWB]

My hen, Blanche had a injured eye and vet put her on antibiotics for 1 week. She is much better now. The vet said don't eat her eggs for a month. Do I really have to wait a month? She is with my other 6 chickens, It would be crewel to separate her. So We are discarding all the eggs.

As a 4-h health and safety officer you should wait until the vet said... But also it depends on the antibiotic that you are giving her??? Another thing if you are tossing out all the eggs it wouldnt be bad to separate her because she could give the other birds what she has/had and you don't want to have to buty store eggs lol