Amprolium is fine IMO. Don't worry about the eggs. My hens sometimes eat chick feed when they have babies. I'm skeptical that the feed was causing your problems, but try adding the oyster shell and see what happens.After watching 3 hours of chicken tv, I learned...all chickens are acting/eating normally. Even more confused, so my hubby took me up to Southern States and I talked to someone there. Um, remember, we are fairly new to this...um, the laying hens are still on starter medicated feed.Why? Well, because the bag says for "layers and broilers". I didn't know that they were considered layers and broilers right from the beginning. Oh, and we've not been giving them grit or oyster shell. Bad chicken owners bad! The mess dripping from the vents was probably eggs without shell...their vents were fine today. I'm quite sheepish right now...and feel so bad! Hopefully we will see a nice turn around and our girls will forgive us.
One thing the lady at Southern States said is that we shouldn't have been eating the eggs they've been laying since March because they were on medicate feed. She said we needed to wait 8 weeks until we can eat their eggs again...?!?!? But I've seen a few threads on here that say amprolium (which is the active medication in our feed) does not cross into the eggs (and only a little if it does) and it shouldn't cause us problems unless we are allergic to antibiotics. Can we eat the eggs we got today? (I did find two...woo-hoo!!!)?
