Medicated Feed

[Vinniemac]

How long should feed your chicks medicated feed. And can you give your young chicks a apple.
Vinnie

 

[Chick Charm]

Medicated feed.....Never

. Personal preference.
Very young chicks will have little interest. But if you do offer apple give em a little grit first. Usually at 2-3 weeks they are more interested in other food sources if brooder kept.

 

[moetrout]

I use medicated feed to start, then move to the "start and grow" feed and use that until they start laying. I then move to flock raiser and free feed crushed oyster shell for a calcium supplement. If you were into ALL organic then I don't think you would be asking us this question. The thing with medicated feed is you don't want that in the eggs you eat. If you switch over to a non-medicated feed before they are actually laying then there is time for that to get out of thier system. We give human babies medication and preventatives to keep them healthy, why not our chickens? Used in moderation I can hardly see it being a problem.

 

[Vinniemac]

How long were they on medicated before you switch to start and grow.These are my first chickens. I have 2 four weeks old and three 2weeks old.
Vinnie

 

[MAMAW467]

We mixed the last of our chick feed in with the new bag of layer thinking we still had another month before the hens layed. Except now our banty started laying this week. HELP PLEASE..do we need to get rid of all this feed and just give layer? How long must we wait to be able to eat the eggs for them to "be safe"?

 

[Fred's Hens]

Read the bag label. If it is merely amprolium, then egg with drawl is not required. It does not enter the egg, but stays in the gut where it fights the coccidiosis by starving it of thiamine.

 

[angel8035]

I would still eat them. It's not an antibiotic.