chickens on antibiotics, can I still incubate their eggs?

[chickchef]

my chickens are on antibiotics and vet said not to consume the eggs, can I put them in my incubator instead or am I asking for problems?

 

[PatmosRuby]

Chickchef, I put mine in when they were on antibiotics and I had a pretty good hatch, and the chicks didn't have any problems.

 

[sonjab314]

I'd call the vet and ask.

 

[Dar]

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ditto

lost my beautiful polish roo to a raccoon half way through a treatment, so I gathered eggs like mad and 10 out of 12 eggs are due on wednesday I will keep you posted

 

[bturbo87]

i asked this same question a while back when one of our hens went broody, my concern was that when you give antibiotics, you give the whole treatment or risk the organisms creating an immunity, so one the chicks from the eggs hatch with immunities that would inhibit the antibiotics from working if they ever got sick. unfortunately i never got a response, but it didnt matter because she stopped being broody like three days later.

 

[dusterbd]

Well chickchef I can say that the reason we bought our new incubator is because my mother-in-laws chickens had to go on antibiotics and insted of throwing the eggs away we had rather incubate them the first three we hatched are doing great and are now about three weeks old and the nine I just put on lockdown today I have candled and are doing great. Give them a chance to live is what I say incubate them....

 

[Dar]

UPDATE:

I gave a friend 12 eggs to hatch after we lost our roo to a raccoon..

Our whole flock was being treated...with antibiotics..... out of 12 eggs 8 hatched

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

Pretty good results!!!

 

[Dar]

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10 went into lockdown and 2 just filed to pip

 

[dusterbd]

chickchef wanted to let you know the nine I put into lockdown who's parents had been on antibiotics everyone of them hatched healthy 100% hatch!!! Good luck with your eggs.