Nutri-drench

[Spicybritt9]

Hello everyone I have a question! Can you cook with nutri-drench? Like can I put it in scrambled eggs to feed back to the chickens ect?

 

[Kiki]

Hello everyone I have a question! Can you cook with nutri-drench? Like can I put it in scrambled eggs to feed back to the chickens ect?

I would not only because heating it up might mess up some of the vitamins. I don't know though.

I also wouldn't recommend it feeding eggs to your birds often either. A complete / balanced to diet is best. The age appropriate commercially made pelleted or crumbled type poultry feed is the complete balanced diet.
Feeding treats, like eggs, takes away from them getting a balanced diet which will cause problems down the road.

 

[Aunt Angus]

You can add it after, if you're worried about cooking it, but it's not necessary, imo. It's easier to add to their water if you think your birds need it. Just be sure to change the water out completely at the end of the day.

Eggs ARE treats, but I like to feed it to them when they need a boost of protein, like during molting.

 

[Acre4Me]

My main use of Nutri Drench is for newly hatched chicks that we just picked up, or a chicken that looks like it needs a boost. I wouldn’t give it to the flock routinely. If I felt the need to do so, however, I would likely add it to a treat such as scrambled eggs or something I knew they would eat up within a short time, and I would only do this if I felt the flock needed a boost, for some reason like an outbreak of lice or mites.

The only other time I’ve seen a specific addition of a vitamin boost is when breeders prepare for the mating/hatching season , and provide specific vitamins so the eggs laid are healthy, so they incubate and hatch out healthy chicks. Certain defects in chicks are linked to certain vitamin deficiencies in the laid egg.

 

[Kiki]

I too only use Nutri-Drench in the water of freshly hatched chicks for the first 2 or 3 days and that's it.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

See your other thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/nutri-drench.1535081/

 

[Spicybritt9]

I would not only because heating it up might mess up some of the vitamins. I don't know though.

I also wouldn't recommend it feeding eggs to your birds often either. A complete / balanced to diet is best. The age appropriate commercially made pelleted or crumbled type poultry feed is the complete balanced diet.
Feeding treats, like eggs, takes away from them getting a balanced diet which will cause problems down the road.

Oh absolutely thank you so much I've read where when people have sick chickens they feed them scrambled eggs so I didn't know if that's was a good option or even could add that to them.

 

[Kiki]

Oh absolutely thank you so much I've read where when people have sick chickens they feed them scrambled eggs so I didn't know if that's was a good option or even could add that to them.

Do you have a sick bird?

 

[Spicybritt9]

Do you have a sick bird?

No my husband asked me "I wonder if we can cook it and put it eggs" and I thought I would come here and ask because I knew you guys would have the answers!