medicated feed safe?

[buck431397]

IS it safe for grown chickens to eat medicated starter/ grower feed?
vice/ versa is it ok for young chickens to eat layer feed? wondering which i should use since they're gonna eat each others feed anyway.

 

[Katy]

It's not good for young chickens to eat the layer....too much calcium for them. I start mine on medicated start & grow and then switch them over to flock raiser which is what my adult birds get too.

 

[gottalovemychickens]

thanks you just reminded me that i had a full bag of Flock Grow , lol .... Ive been feeding them straight scratch grain and now that i put the flock grow in their they are going crazy over that , i hope to get more eggs

 

[ella]

If you have young growing chicks with mature birds, keep them all on the medicated starter.

As Katy said Layer has too much calcium for chicks. You can keep out a dish of oyster shell seperate from the food for the hens, they will take what they need.

Just double check the medication is Amprolium. It's a structural analogue of thiamine (vitamin B1), It stops thiamine use by the coccidia parasite and keeps it from growing out of control allowing the bird to develop an immunity gradually.

Scratch grains are not a complete feed. They're going to be a lot healthier with a good flock raiser or starter feed.