Did I mess up BIG time?!?!?!?!?

[Chicken0Boy]

Ok so I ordered my 25 chciks from Mcmurray, but I asked them to vaccinate all of them for cocci and mareks! Was this a bad idea or is it okay?

 

[math ace]

I am thinking - - - Good Idea.

Do you have other birds ?

I got my birds from all different places. They are ages from "on order - not here yet " to 6 months. As soon as everybody gets here - - - I think I am going to vacinate everybody for Mareks.

In the future, you don't think have to worry about cocci if you are going to feed the birds with medicated chick starter. It has the medicine in it already.

 

[trilyn]

That's fine, now you just have to make sure NOT to feed medicated feed. This will cancel out the vaccination for cocci. Simple as that! Have fun with your new babies!!

 

[JLS]

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I agree. The vaccines are just fine. Now you just need to get non-medicated starter feed. Friends of mine are vets and they feed their chickens organic feed which is not medicated. You have the options available now

No need to worry.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

Ok good! I get my chicks in 8 days!!!!!!!

 

[twentynine]

Can I ask--- seriously---- in a most respectful way-------

How does medicated feed cancel out a vaccination?

Purina has a non-medicated starter/grower. I think Dumor (TSC) has non-medicated starter, not absolutely sure.

Organic starter gonna cost you an arm and leg.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

Well I heres my guess. With us humans when we get our shots the are putting that sickness in us, so with a chick vaccination it is the same thing! The medicated feed is supposed to prevent sickness in young chick ages, so when you give the chick the feed it is cancelling the sickness put in out. If you dont get ask some more questions! Hopes this helps, but remember. I AM JUST GUESSING! Lol have a good day.

 

[twentynine]

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I follow what you are saying.

But-------------

Well I was a thinking. The vaccines being injected, would not the chicks begin making antibodies in reaction to that vaccine, right away. Then they are shipped to your home, 1 or 2 days later they arrive. At that time you begin to feed them medicated feed, right?

 

[Mervin]

twentynine

I'm with you on this. The vaccine should jump start anti-body production. Medicated feed is treated with a coccidiostat. Corrid, a standard treatment for cocci, is a coccidiostat which interrupts the lifecycle of the protozoans that cause cocci. Here's a blurb from the Corid website (www.corid.com):

How CORID works
Structurally, CORID mimics thiamin (Vitamin B1) which is required by coccidia for normal growth and reproduction. When coccidia ingest CORID, they experience thiamin deficiency and starve from malnutrition. CORID has been experimentally administered at many times the recommended dosage and duration with no signs of toxicity.

Effectively, I think the two medications act in two fundamentally different ways and do not cancel each other out.

 

[HathawayHens]

Yeah, medicated feed can't void a vaccine, but it is not always necessary if they have been vaccinated. Good management practices are always the best defense, though, so keep that in mind. Healthy chickens develop natural immunity to coccidia as they grow, the vaccine would just jump start that process.