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She should be able to tolerate chick food IF you provide her with free choice oyster shell HIGH ENOUGH THAT THE BABY CHICKS CANNOT GET TO IT!
Too much calcium can hurt -- even kill -- very young chicks.
Maybe you can let her spend part of her day with the younger chicks, but move her out about an hour before bed time to her own area, where she can have grown girl layer feed and oyster shell waiting for her.
The chick food she eats during the day will not hurt her (though it may taint the quality of the eggs -- certainly the eggs will not be "organic" quality if delivered by a hen who has some access to medicated feed).
But she will have her own food part of the day as well, so that should help both in supplying her with enough calcium and also to get her away from the medicated food for at least some of her meals.
She should be able to tolerate chick food IF you provide her with free choice oyster shell HIGH ENOUGH THAT THE BABY CHICKS CANNOT GET TO IT!
Too much calcium can hurt -- even kill -- very young chicks.
Maybe you can let her spend part of her day with the younger chicks, but move her out about an hour before bed time to her own area, where she can have grown girl layer feed and oyster shell waiting for her.
The chick food she eats during the day will not hurt her (though it may taint the quality of the eggs -- certainly the eggs will not be "organic" quality if delivered by a hen who has some access to medicated feed).
But she will have her own food part of the day as well, so that should help both in supplying her with enough calcium and also to get her away from the medicated food for at least some of her meals.
