Chick feed- When do you feed the medicated feed?

[r00stercogburn]

I have a sick week old chick. Do you put DE in your young chicks water? I started giving her poly-vy-sol today and mixed a little yogurt in her food but I'd like to do everything I can. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
thanks!!

 

[suebee]

Post about your sick chick in illness section to get help. I'm not sure what to do but the DE will not help. It would be rare for a chick that young to have anything that DE would cure. Hope the little one will be okay. Post in disease section to get the best answers.

 

[r00stercogburn]

thank you!!

 

[chickerdoodle]

I live in Oregon and we have wet winters and springs so they are more likely to get cocci. Becasue of this I am feeding medicated chick starter. The medicated starter doesn't have antibiotics, it has a thiamine inhibitor to slow down the possibility of cocci maturing and therefore the load of infection so the chick has a chance to build a natural immunity. I will give them developer/grower grower at about nine or ten weeks of age until they lay or until they are about 20 weeks of age. I have standard hens that don't start to lay until 5-7 months of age. I am planning on feeding an organic soy and corn free diet because fish meal protein is supposedly better than soy and hard its to find non GMO corn. I chose this carefully with the chicks best interest in mind for our area.

Bottom line--check the needs for your area--wet, dry, if cocci is common, etc.