can you eat medicated chickens? NOT THEIR EGGS

[chick-lovers]

we have 9 chickens 4 of wich are roosters, we want to know if we could eat the rooster even if its been on medicated food in its early stages and hen scratch till now, ther around 22 weeks old and are hens arent laying because there to stressed about all the males. and we want to know if we can kill them for food. please help we need them out of there YESDERDAY

p.s. no one in my area want to take on a rooster.

p.s. hes a "cinnamon queen"

 

[fried green eggs]

We keep our chicks on Medicated feed for the first few weeks then change them over to non-med. By the time we would eat them the med feed has been out of their diet long enough that we don't worry about eating them. Don't forget to let meat rest in the fridge for a day or two after processing before cooking or freezing.

 

[All Henned Up]

I forgot to take my broilers off medicated feed and we ate them with no ill affects
If that helps.

 

[wyoDreamer]

First - the feed bag will have a tag that details what it is medicated with and will have the withdrawl times, or length of time that you need to wait before using the bird for food (eggs and meat).

This same question came up recently in the Meat Birds thread.
This is take directly from the thread in the Meat Birds ETC section that has almost the same title as yours:

In this instance the medication in question is simply amprolium. It has a very, very different function then antibiotic's and people need to understand that difference when feeding chicks who are very suseptible to coccidiosis. Amprolium in chick feed actually helps the chick build it's own immunity by controlling overgrowth of coccidia, it does nothing to build cocci resistence, it does not even kill coccidia. It is simply a thiamine blocker which creates an unfavorable environment for coccidia to overgrow and kill the chick. In the meantime chick develops resistence to the existing coccidia. The difference between Amprolium and antibiotic's is night and day, the two are not related.

 

[leadwolf1]

Are all your hens the same age? If so, they are probably not laying because they aren't quite old enough yet. Until a hawk got her, I had one bantam cochin hen in with all her siblings...brothers...6 roos...and she layed eggs every day...

In answer to your question, wyoDreamer is absolutely correct.

we have 9 chickens 4 of wich are roosters, we want to know if we could eat the rooster even if its been on medicated food in its early stages and hen scratch till now, ther around 22 weeks old and are hens arent laying because there to stressed about all the males. and we want to know if we can kill them for food. please help we need them out of there YESDERDAY

p.s. no one in my area want to take on a rooster.

p.s. hes a "cinnamon queen"