Terramycin....

[kimatsettstone]

Helpppppp my chickens are unwell and I have been advised to use terramycin to dissolve in their water. I have just read on a web site that you should never eat the eggs from any chickens which have been treated with this, does anyone know if this is true?

 

[aafairchild]

Hi,

I am no expert, but I think this is a tetracycline type antibiotic. I would not eat the eggs during treatment and would wait a few days after treatment is complete. As far a never eating eggs from them again, only if I had to resort to Baytril which is not approved for chickens anyway. I have used Denegard on my birds many months ago and I eat their eggs every day.

Good luck with your ladies.

Alice

 

[dawg53]

Helpppppp my chickens are unwell and I have been advised to use terramycin to dissolve in their water. I have just read on a web site that you should never eat the eggs from any chickens which have been treated with this, does anyone know if this is true?

The withdrawal period for terramycin is 5 days.
http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/poultrypages/diseasefactsheet.html

 

[kimatsettstone]

Thanks for the info, the kink/fact sheet is very useful

 

[speckledhen]

Throwing a weak antibiotic at "unwell" chickens is not advisable. Unwell how? Terramycin is less than helpful, in truth, if chickens are really in need of any antibiotic treatment.
I myself never use antibiotics unless I know for sure it's something NON contagious. If you do, you don't cure anything, you only create Typhoid Marys in your flock. Plus, as you know, if something is viral, antibiotics are useless.