Got our first egg yesterday, but........

[chickenstricken]

Good to hear. When todays was firmer, I thought that might be the case. Do you think a combination of the starter feed and the crumble mix will be ok for a while. At least until the youngest ones hit a certain age?

 

[artsy1]

the first few are usually odd, nothing to worry about.

 

[chickenstricken]

No egg today.

The feed store told me not to eat the eggs while the girls are on the medicated starter feed. Anyone else heard of this?

 

[galanie]

I've heard that but I eat them anyway. It's not an antibiotic in there in spite of being called "medicated." It's normally Amprolium (sp?)

From University of Penn website:

Amprolium

Chemical group: thiamine analog

Trade names: Corid, Amprol

Mode of action: thiamine analog, competitively inhibits the active transport of thiamine. The coccidia are 50 times as sensitive to this inhibition as is the host.

Pharmacokinetics: Freely soluble in water.

Dose: In dogs and cats: "extra label use": 300 to 400 mg/kg, SID for 5 days or 110 to 220 mg/kg SID for 7 to 12 days.

In chickens: For prevention of coccidiosis: 36.3 - 113.5 g/ton in the feed or in the drinking water at 0.012%. No withdrawal is needed.

Toxicity: May cause thiamine deficiency if given at high rates.

Parasite Targets: Isospora in dogs and cats, Eimeria in cattle and poultry.

Selected references: Lindsy and Blagburn, (1995), Chap. 47, Antiprotozoan drugs. IN: Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, ( pg. 975), H. Richard Adams (ed). Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa.

 

[chickenstricken]

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I had never heard that before, so it was news to me. Not knowing, I would have eaten them anyway. If you're eating them and they don't taste funny then I guess I'll try it.

Her 3rd egg came today and its beautiful and perfect.