Medicated starter grower

[Majestic]

I know some dont like medicated starter grower it's up to each person if they choose to use it and I respect your choice. With that being said.
Here's my question. I fed my chicks medicated and I can't always get it where I live so can i mix it half and half with the 20% protein grower that i can get from my local feed store to make it help last where I live I have to go to the city to tractor supply to get medicated. Or wouldn't that be enough of a ratio of the medicated feed to do anything for my babies. Ps they are 7 weeks old and eating a lot

 

[Debbie292d]

I wouldn't mix it as that's depleting the amprolium in it. I'd either feed them 100% medicated crumbles or 100% plain starter/grower crumbles.

I only use medicated when I've purchased chicks and when I had read up on it, I gathered most do it for about a month, so that's what I did.

The second time I purchased chicks, it was nice weather so they got outside their first week. That rather negates the need for medicated feed as well as they're getting their resistance to coccidiosis naturally.

 

[Folly's place]

Feeding feed with amprolium might be needed, or not. If it's fed, it needs to be their only diet until about two weeks after they are on your ground, so the coccidia present don't overwhelm them.
Some farms, some years, will have too heavy a burden of coccidia for the chicks to develop immunity without assistance (that medicated chick starter). While other farms, other years, never have this problem.
After decades, a couple of years ago, during a very wet spring, our chicks had coccidiosis (the actual disease) and had to have Corid to recover. So, now, we are using medicated feed for our chicks, until they have been out there for a couple of weeks. Just to be safer for them, nobody needs to get sick if we can prevent it.
So, your birds might be fine without, or not. But either do it right, or leave it out.
Mary