egg withdrawal

[Apsrn]

Hello
My Lilly (13month old bard rock) just finished a course of Panacur, cephalexin/nystatin and albon for coccidia, yeast infection and one round worm ova. The other girls tested negative. Due to an emergency in the vet office they did not inform me of the egg withdrawal time after these meds. She is still in isolation but I don't know when I can eat the eggs so I can't put her out with her sisters. One site states 8 days for the panacur but I get differing results for the antibiotic from 0 days to never, and I can't get anything for the albon. Please help. I feel so bad for her being kept away from the others.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I think the your best bet is to call the vet on Monday morning and ask. If there is no way to tell Lilly's egg apart, you will need to keep her separate if you want to eat the other eggs.

A solution might be to put a "friend" in isolation with Lilly... a hen that lays a different color egg. But only if Lilly is completely well and gets along with the other hen. It is easier to reintroduce 2 birds together back into a flock. When the time comes, do it after dark, put them on the roost, and they will be part of the flock first thing in the morning. Check early to make sure all is well. Good luck!

 

[Apsrn]

Thank you so much. That's exactly what I plan to do. I would have asked when I was there but an emergency came in and he was called out.

 

[Eggcessive]

None of those drugs are approved for poultry, so you may not find an accurate withdrawl time for any. Panacur or fenbendazole usually requires 14 day withdrawal after medication is stopped. The albon is a sulfa drug, and cehalexin, plus nystatin together, so I would use at least a month egg withdrawal. Be sure and give some probiotics to get her intestinal flora back to normal. Probios is a good product, and Grow2max is as well. FARAD had this list in 2015 of approved drugs in chickens:
https://vet.osu.edu/sites/vet.osu.e...ng the treatment of backyard poultry 2015.pdf

This article is from 2019:
http://www.farad.org/vetgram/egglayers.asp