Need feeding help!

Crickett

Songster
10 Years
Apr 9, 2009
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My little scovies are doing well so far, but I ran out of unmedicated chick starter. Every feed store and co-op around here has only medicated chick feed. Even the game bird feed is medicated! At one place, when I asked about unmedicated the man was really rude. He said "every one feeds the medicated stuff." When I told him that medicated could kill ducklings if they eat too much of it he said "Then I guess they just die."
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So since the only thing I have that isn't medicated is scratch feed, I've been giving them that for the past couple of days. What else can I give them to support their growth that won't hurt them? If needs be I can make a run into one of the larger towns and maybe pick up some DUMOR at the TSC on monday.
 
It depends on what the medication is. Some won't hurt them. I'm not really sure because I just feed the Dumor from TSC. If you can grab a bag of that, you'll be fine. Mine have always eaten that with no ill effects.
 
I have given unmedicated feed to my ducks and feel comfortable doing that, but there a many people who raise ducks that have mention here on BYC that they feed medicated feed to their ducks any have had no issues. I just look at the bag, if it has a picture of a duck on the bag it should be safe for them.
 

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