Medicated vs Non-Medicated Feed

[GC-Raptor]

I fed my girls medicated start & grow 18% protein, (contains 0.0125% Amprolium) for 16 weeks, then I mixed in layers pellets 50/50 for 2 weeks for my red sex-links.
I have since read, medicated feed with Amprolium doesn't help prevent coccidiosis after 10 weeks. Back of tag says (Feed continuously from day old until onset of production).
So draw your own conclusion.
I put my girls outside at 5 1/2 weeks. They were kept in a broader until then.
I have never treated my girls for sickness nor had to worm (so far). They will be 14 months old Tuesday. Pic taken yesterday GC

 

[casportpony]

From the 70's:

Amprol Plus 3-Nitro I think had:

• amprolium
• ethopabate
• Roxarsone

Amprol Plus was:

• amprolium
• ethopabate

Amprol Hi-E

• amprolium
• ethopabate
• bacitracin

Nicarb 25

• Nicarbazin

Amprol 25

• Amprolium

S.Q. 40

• Sulfaquinoxaline

 

[casportpony]

Yes, they are supposedly species specific, so avians get forms of cocci different from goats, for example. Yes, even straight from incubator to clean ground, they get cocci. The oocysts that cause it live in the soil.

I think it's even more than that, as in chickens get chicken coccidiosis, turkeys get turkey coccidiosis, ducks get duck coccidiosis, geese get goose coccidiosis, peafowl get peafowl coccidiosis, etc.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Yup. what Casportpony said.
LofMc

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, even further subdivided, I agree, though I have only chickens and used to have guineas. The guineas never got cocci, though, interestingly enough.

 

[casportpony]

Interesting... My free range keets got it just once, and I think I've had two peafowl get it, but never ducks or geese.

Guineas seem to be quite hardy compared to chickens, peafowl, and turkeys.

 

[speckledhen]

Interesting... My free range keets got it just once, and I think I've had two peafowl get it, but never ducks or geese.

Guineas seem to be quite hardy compared to chickens, peafowl, and turkeys.

Funny that you say that. If you remember Doc Brown (Peter Brown) who has helped a lot of folks here on BYC and elsewhere, he once said that you can't kill a guinea with a .22, LOL, of course, meaning they are much hardier overall than chickens. Usually, it's their weird sort of non-intelligence that gets them killed!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Funny that you say that. If you remember Doc Brown (Peter Brown) who has helped a lot of folks here on BYC and elsewhere, he once said that you can't kill a guinea with a .22, LOL, of course, meaning they are much hardier overall than chickens. Usually, it's their weird sort of non-intelligence that gets them killed!

i was actually just talking to a neighbor that used to live in Australia she was telling me that when she had guineas they would perch in the trees and a fox would just sit under it, staring up at it and the guinea would stare right back -until it was in a trance and fell out of the tree and into the fox's mouth

every time, so she had to go out and catch them every night

 

[Ridgerunner]

That makes for a good story but I'm not sure. As well ad guineas fly and as high as they perch, I'd question how she caught them each night.

 

[speckledhen]

i was actually just talking to a neighbor that used to live in Australia she was telling me that when she had guineas they would perch in the trees and a fox would just sit under it, staring up at it and the guinea would stare right back -until it was in a trance and fell out of the tree and into the fox's mouth

every time, so she had to go out and catch them every night

Sounds about right for a guinea. Ours were housed with the chickens and we sold them at a year old because of them beating up on my RIR hens (just the red hens, no others except the rooster), but they are "special" birds!