INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[kajira]

Many of the turkey starters will have bacitracin, which ducks *can* have, it's actually what I feed my peachicks, ducklings, and poults.

More links:
http://metzerfarms.blogspot.com/2011/11/can-medicated-feed-be-used-for.html
http://metzerfarms.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-my-ducklings-leg-problems-due-to.html

More on medicated feed:

Is that bag you posted, the brand I should be looking at next week when I go to TSC

 

[Akrnaf2]

Kathy way you give your chicks antibiotics on a regular basis?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: What a moron! Correction to my dosing info... this says the dose is 0.4 mg/kg.

If she gave two tubes, that's 452 mg of moxidectin (I think). If I did the math correctly, her 200 pounder should have had just 3.64 mg (double dose).

Quote:
OR ORAL USE IN HORSES AND PONIES SIX MONTHS OF AGE AND OLDER
INDICATIONS
QUEST (moxidectin) 2% Equine Oral Gel when administered at the recommended dose level of 0.4 mg moxidectin/kg (2.2 lb) body weight is effective in the treatment and control of the following stages of gastrointestinal parasites in horses and ponies:

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Kathy way you give your chicks antibiotics on a regular basis?

The medicated feed? Because it's all that's available near me. I would choose un-medicated if I could get fresh bags, but I can't, so medicated it is.

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: 16.1 !!! Do you need a mounting block & oxygen at that altitude!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: They probably won't have the medicated flock raiser, but they should have the regular one, which will be fine for your ducklings, but the poults will need something with more protein.

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Disregard my previous post about your horse. I thought you said the horse was 16.1 hands.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Kathy way you give your chicks antibiotics on a regular basis?

The medicated feed? Because it's all that's available near me. I would choose un-medicated if I could get fresh bags, but I can't, so medicated it is.

-Kathy

But it will speed up the building of resistant bacteria population in your chickens!

 

[kajira]

They probably won't have the medicated flock raiser, but they should have the regular one, which will be fine for your ducklings, but the poults will need something with more protein.

-Kathy

I don't want to buy 20 bags of feed. Is there something I can feed them both, that will work for the turkeys, too?

 

[kajira]

Disregard my previous post about your horse. I thought you said the horse was 16.1 hands.

She's around 15.5 hands. I usually use my round pen to stand on to mount up easier. I find that flinging myself into the saddle tweaks my back. LOL

I had a 17+h thoroughbred back in the day. He... was almost impossible to get up on, for me anyways. His shoulder was taller than my head, and I'm 5'7!