Information about fertile eggs from medicated chickens

[Backwoodsnanny]

We have our whole flock on preventative medication this week and I know you cant eat the eggs but can thes fertile eggs be used for hatching eggs?

 

[Judy]

Probably. What kind of medication?

 

[TwoCrows]

If it is any type of antibiotic, I would say no on the incubation. Antibiotics inhibit fast growing living organisms and an embryo is just that. A fast growing living organism. You also may run into mutations inside the egg which may prevent it from hatching. So your hatch rate may be low or if they do hatch, the chicks could hatch malformed.

 

[Backwoodsnanny]

Thank you to both of you who responded It is tetracycaline so may try one or two but not what I collected today