STOP using Gatorade for your birds.

[h2oratt]

I should have been more clear...my bad.

Ok , that makes sense. I see what brought on your post.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I guess it's worth considering before recommending it. If someone really knowledgeable here appropriately suggests giving some to a sick bird therapeutically then 4 others may start using it like vitamins. Possibly choosing sugar free.

All comes down to remembering the lowest common denominator of knowledge reading your posts. Not meaning that insultingly, but some people don't know.

 

[Kiki]

I guess it's worth considering before recommending it. If someone really knowledgeable here appropriately suggests giving some to a sick bird therapeutically then 4 others may start using it like vitamins. Possibly choosing sugar free.

All comes down to remembering the lowest common denominator of knowledge reading your posts. Not meaning that insultingly, but some people don't know.

Too many people think a lot of a good thing (meant to be used once or twice) is good.

I think the more research I do the more I see how bad it is to feed/any water your chickens with anything but a complete feed and fresh water daily.

I don't think people get how bad offering daily "treat" and "Gatorade" type things daily is not good.

 

[casportpony]

Let me be clear. I recommend using it only when tube feeding and I recommend using regular Gatorade. I also recommend providing a source of plain fresh water.

 

[007Sean]

I’m another one who is a firm believer in clean, fresh, plain water. A healthy chick (or chicken) wouldn’t be that way if electrolytes or probiotics were out of whack. So it just makes sense to me that adding all that stuff is not only unnecessary, but can throw healthy birds off. Even most of the packages for those additives tell people that they are to be used short term, and that fresh, plain water should also be available at all times.

I do use a little Nutri-Dench for stressed or sick chicks. Briefly. Very briefly, and usually just the chick that is stressed gets it.

When I said I use Nutri-Drench, that's when I use it, except only on chicks. The 1st week after hatching all my chicks get it. After that it's plain well water, straight from the well. My house water is filtered, iron removed, soften because it's very hard water and reverse osmosis, that's what drink/cook with....just thought I'd clear that up, I don't use it all the time.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Let me be clear. I recommend using it only when tube feeding and I recommend using regular Gatorade. I also recommend providing a source of plain fresh water.

Exactly. But what you say about this, or I say about some other random thing, isn't what's heard by some people. Cut to... someones feeding their chicken diet mountain dew right now.

 

[007Sean]

Exactly. But what you say about this, or I say about some other random thing, isn't what's heard by some people. Cut to... someones feeding their chicken diet mountain dew right now.

There birds would all jacked up on Mountain Dew!great line from the movie!

 

[Kiki]

A good read for anyone who wants to learn about sugars:
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-dextrose-and-sucrose/

 

[casportpony]

A good read for anyone who wants to learn about sugars:
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-dextrose-and-sucrose/

Good link!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Actually I feel your breeding stock should the best quality you can afford also.

Pregnant Sows get high end 18%+ grains.
Medium grade conventional grains (15%) as well as rice/soy beans/pinto beans/barley/alfalfa for the stock breeders not gestating. Corn is very rare. I have a 800# boar that doesn't need any weight gain.

Now the growers are on close to 48%. I know other pig farmers that feed nothing but bread and doughnuts..
they sell their offspring for pennies on the $.
We get good money or we send them to freezer camp.