non medicated chick starter

[speckledhen]

If your chicks stay clean you don't need to worry about cocci.

I just want to say that honestly, that isn't necessarily true. It depends on the amt of cocci in your soil. You can't keep chicks clean enough to prevent cocci, just impossible. It's a naturally occurring thing, really. Mine couldn't be cleaner if I ran around with a pooper scooper held under their little bums, but it doesn't matter. They get cocci anyway because my soil is loaded with it. Dont want anyone feeling unnecessarily guilty about that. Keep them as clean as possible, including waterers, but if there is an abundance of the oocycsts in the soil, as soon as they hit that, they are susceptible to coccidiosis.​

 

[siroiszoo]

I called McMurray Hatchery this morning and ran my feed store responses by them. They told me not to feed the Turkey starter to my chicks and sounded shocked that I would even consider it. She said if I couldn't find non-medicated chick starter to just feed the medicated one. It would nullify the vaccine they gave and be a waste of my money but would be better than feeding a turkey or game bird starter. (My chicks were being hatched for shipment as I spoke with the company this morning and was unable to cancel the vaccination on the order.)

Anyway, I persevered in my quest for non-medicated and found a feed store that had Home Grown Poultry feed in stock - which was the same feed that the first store I went to was going to sell if it had been in stock.

I might check out TSC in the future but I've been disappointed with their horse feeds in the past.

 

[siroiszoo]

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I might add: I probably wasted more gas & time spent being abused over the phone by uneducated feed store employees than I would have lost in dollar value on the wasted vaccines.

 

[rstampa]

Having your chicks vaccinated and feeding with medicated food does apsolutly nothing to the chicks. One way or the other. The medication is in such a small does it will not harm them. The other benificial ingredience, outways any fear of over medicating you babies.