Question about pultry grade acidified copper

[Chicklove4ever]

Hi I've been trying to research about mixing pultry grade acidified copper with rooster buster and acv in their water and cant find a thing.Does anyone know if its okay to mix them? and also will the pultry grade acidified copper affect my other hens who dont have sour crop ive read that some say its fine for the others who dont have sour crop for preventive measures but then there are others that say its not a good idea so im confused i wouldn't want to make my baby chicken bockers sick.

 

[Chicklove4ever]

bump

 

[jher77]

The "acidified copper sulfate" is already acidified. You probably don't want to add any more acid (ACV) to the mixture. The only reason I say probably is because if your drinking water has a very high pH and total alkalinity, then you might have to add some more acid to keep the copper suspended but that is unlikely needed.

I've given acidified copper sulfate to my whole flock to treat a single chicken that had a problem. No problem with that, just everyone gets a cleansing.

Chickens only need electrolytes if they are dehydrated.

What are you trying to treat?

 

[Chicklove4ever]

The "acidified copper sulfate" is already acidified. You probably don't want to add any more acid (ACV) to the mixture. The only reason I say probably is because if your drinking water has a very high pH and total alkalinity, then you might have to add some more acid to keep the copper suspended but that is unlikely needed.

I've given acidified copper sulfate to my whole flock to treat a single chicken that had a problem. No problem with that, just everyone gets a cleansing.

Chickens only need electrolytes if they are dehydrated.

What are you trying to treat?

Hi thank you for your response Im treating 6 hens for sour crop out of 16.The reason for rooster booster is that it has probiotics that helps their crop and electrolights that helps them with the heat,it gets really hot were i live.I just don't know if it would interfere with the acidified copper or if i should just hold off on adding it

 

[jher77]

Copper kills the fungi associated with sour crop and bacteria too. Adding probiotics or bacteria during treatment wouldn't be a good idea but I'd give it after to build back up the good bacteria that got killed off.