Some MEDICATED chicken feed may be poisonous for horses

[Kiki]

I have a feeling that this may be one of those "10-20 years ago it was a problem" type of problems. Maybe other parts of the world still use monensin (or anything other than amprolium), but I have never seen or heard of it in my time keeping quail and chickens. I see references to it being used for cattle, but not poultry.

I agree.

 

[paneubert]

Well, small disclaimer. I do see it being advertised as a standalone drug to administer to cure stuff that you would expect an antibiotic to cure in poultry. But not seeing any feed that uses it as a preventative.

 

[Kiki]

I figured by making this statement OP would know which exact feeds (or at least one) that contained it.

Some medicated chicken feed contains monensin

 

[paneubert]

Well the person who started this thread posted what to me sounds a lot like a game of telephone or a chain letter. The cousin of a friend of a friend of an inlaw heard from the radio that something something something....cancer.

"One of the other chicken forums I belong to just posted a thread about medicated chicken feed being poisonous for horses and other animals. It started out with a really harrowing story about how two horses who'd gotten into a bag of chicken feed were rushed to the vet".

 

[paneubert]

Don't get me wrong! If there is a commonly produced medicated chicken feed out there that is bad for other animals, I want to know about it. Haha. I just am wondering if the horses that got sick in the original story were eating the feed in 1980.

 

[Kiki]

Don't get me wrong! If there is a commonly produced medicated chicken feed out there that is bad for other animals, I want to know about it. Haha. I just am wondering if the horses that got sick in the original story were eating the feed in 1980.

I didn't even read post number one.
I started with number 5.

 

[paneubert]

I didn't even read post number one.
I started with number 5.

Post 5 with the sick pup is 100% something else going on in my opinion. I am not buying that it got sick/poisoned from chicken feed. But I would love for that person to let us know what brand of chick feed they were feeding...

They say it has Amprolium, so I highly doubt it had a second drug in it. And I don't believe for a second that the Amprolium was a problem.

 

[aart]

I didn't even read post number one.
I started with number 5.

I did too....but then scrolled up.

 

[Geena]

Some medicated game bird starters contain Lasalocid which is known to be toxic to horses and dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasalocid

 

[Kiki]

Some medicated game bird starters contain Lasalocid which is known to be toxic to horses and dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasalocid

Which brands?