Medicated Feed and Eggs

[bmwfamilyfarm]

I fed my girls Purina Medicated Start and Grow feed until I got the first couple of eggs. Once I saw some eggs I mixed layer feed with their medicated for about a week to get them acclimated to the pellets. Are the eggs produced while they are on medicated feed safe to eat? I don't want to waste anything but I don't want to eat something that could be harmful either.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

There is no pull time with medicated (Amprolium based) feed according to the FDA.

You could feed it to your laying hens and still eat the eggs without human harm, other than offending any food philosophy you might have about avoiding any drugs in animals that produce the food you eat.

Amprolium is not organic rated, but commercial industry uses it with FDA approval.

As for me....I eat the eggs. Yum.

LofMc

 

[Magical Garden Girl]

This tid bit of article was sitting in my in box this morning. Many already know this is one action that contributed to antibiotic resistant strains we are dealing with --- obviously when you have a large population of chickens it's more challenging to go "preventative and natural"
Only sharing - not advocating - you know what's best but it is interesting for those that don't know about this part of chicken history


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...ry-that-traced-back-to-slaughterhouse-workers

 

[cmom]

I have a large population of birds. I feed the chicks medicated crumbles until they are around 8/10 weeks old then I switch them over to grower pellets. Since I breed, when they start to lay I feed them Game Bird Breeder pellets. After breeding season I feed them layer to give them a break off of the higher protein and feed them layer/maintenance feed. When they start to molt in late summer I switch them back over to higher protein feed. That is just the way I do it but I raise my birds to show at poultry shows.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

This tid bit of article was sitting in my in box this morning. Many already know this is one action that contributed to antibiotic resistant strains we are dealing with --- obviously when you have a large population of chickens it's more challenging to go "preventative and natural"
Only sharing - not advocating - you know what's best but it is interesting for those that don't know about this part of chicken history


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...ry-that-traced-back-to-slaughterhouse-workers

While the article does address the concerns that have arisen over animal antibiotic use with resistant bacteria, Amprolium is not an antibiotic. It is a b vitamin inhibitor. It has nothing to do with bacteria. (Coccidia is a protozoa not a bacteria).

Some medicated feeds with Amprolium also included Bacitracin, which is an antibiotic, and those has been removed due to antibiotic resistant strains reacting to the Bacitracin. Medicated feed is formulated with only Amprolium for over the counter use. (I believe some commercial feed allows bacitracin yet on some scripts).

But Amprolium has never been indicated in those concerns as it is not an antibiotic. It is an anti-coccidiostat . (And the article correctly never mentions Amprolium but only antibiotics).

LofMc

 

[Magical Garden Girl]

While the article does address the concerns that have arisen over animal antibiotic use with resistant bacteria, Amprolium is not an antibiotic. It is a b vitamin inhibitor. It has nothing to do with bacteria. (Coccidia is a protozoa not a bacteria).

Some medicated feeds with Amprolium also included Bacitracin, which is an antibiotic, and those has been removed due to antibiotic resistant strains reacting to the Bacitracin. Medicated feed is formulated with only Amprolium for over the counter use. (I believe some commercial feed allows bacitracin yet on some scripts).

But Amprolium has never been indicated in those concerns as it is not an antibiotic. It is an anti-coccidiostat . (And the article correctly never mentions Amprolium but only antibiotics).

LofMc

Nice reply -

When I read this article I thought the moral of the story was how important the basics are (can be applied on many levels) as they really are tried and true -
I also thought it to be a wonderful thing for those that have their own chickens and how much we care and make a difference on our own table.

I also note this is a story starting in the 1950s - of an epidemiologists case study. Many things that were not antibiotics were marketed as such to farmers. Apparently per some articles - the killing portion of Round up (initially used and found in Agent Orange) was initially marketed as an Antibiotic and then an Anti viral etc... because they just knew it killed things

we know much more now than before - and we will learn more again

I still think basics are good