Medicated feed and eggs~ How long after can you eat the eggs?

[Fuzzbutt28]

My (3) Girls just turned 4 months old 2 weeks ago..One of them layed a small egg on the 4th of July .. It was perfect,just little.. I thought it was a rock at first.It was muddy and has been raining..She layed another one this morning.They are Road Island Reds.They are finishing up the last of the medicated feed.It Should be gone in about 2 more days.How long after they have the last of that feed should I wait to eat the new eggs. I have no idea how long that will stay in there body...Also how often do YOUR reds lay for you?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Rhode Island Reds are among the most productive of the brown egg breeds.

There really isn't what one would call medicine in medicated feed. It is usually amprolium or some other thiamine blocker. Therefor you could probably eat the eggs.
Most people switch from medicated feed by about 2 months of age.

 

[Fuzzbutt28]

My vet said before it would be in the eggs.. I just didn't know how long it would take before it would be out of there system... Just like a mom breast feeding a infant .If she drinks alcohol it would be in the breast milk.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Right, it will be in the eggs but as I said, the only issue is that it prevents the uptake of thiamine. It will primarily be in the yolk.
I wouldn't probably be a fan of consuming it but it won't really hurt you.

ETA

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2919391

One strategy would be to start layer feed now and mix it half and half with the med starter till that's gone.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

My vet said before it would be in the eggs.. I just didn't know how long it would take before it would be out of there system... Just like a mom breast feeding a infant .If she drinks alcohol it would be in the breast milk.

Your vet may be mistaking the Thymine blocker in "medicated" chick food for an antibiotic. Medicine can be anything from the cheery flavor in a cough drop to chemotherapy. If you dose your hens with garlic to kill worms in reality you are medicating them (your hens) regardless of how ineffective the treatment may or may not be.

It is for ever more against the law in all 50 states, Porto Rico, the District of Columbia and every other country on the face of the Earth to sell chicken feed with antibiotics or growth hormones in it. But there are 1,000s of health faker web sights out there trying to make a quick buck by telling us otherwise. It is just not true.

If there were antibiotics or growth hormones in starter\grower by law there would be a warning label on the tag of every bag of chick starter warning us not to allow a laying hen anywhere near it. Or else by law there would be a recommended withdrawal period printed on the the tag affixed to every bag.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Good points.
People don't normally read the feeding instructions on feed bags. If they did, they would find they should migrate from medicated feed long before the birds start laying.