Tetracycline as a wormer?

[speckledhen]

I hope I didn't offend you! I just have a beef with so much terrible advice being dispensed to unsuspecting chicken owners by feed store personnel who really haven't a clue what they're talking about. I can see how customers would expect too much of you, too. I don't want to get off track with the subject, though.

I've never heard of an antibiotic being used as a wormer--would make much better sense using a wormer as a wormer, wouldn't you say? If you do use an antibiotic when none is needed, when a wormer is what you should be administering, you are building up some nice antibiotic resistance and when you really need an antibiotic, it may not work.

 

[savingpurple]

To be honest..I would NEVER suggest to a chicken owner to use Dura/Tera as a wormer. It IS an antibiotic period, or let me read otherwise.

No offense taken...

 

[speckledhen]

 

[lonesomerider]

If I may: I also worked for a farm/ranch store for 15 years in the not too distant past. Our manager there made it very clear that the correct response was: "I don't know.....but I'll find someone who does." Each department at the store had one clerk who was as close to an expert on that department as it was possible to be......mine were animal meds, farm machinery and animal feeds. If no answer there, then we (clerk and customer) searched our store's manuals, or contacted the proper buyer at the head office by store phone. If a customer complained about "unhelpful" service, the clerk was written up ONCE; the second time, they were terminated. As should be.

So, not all clerks are allowed to give customers the treatment you received. On behalf of the "good" clerks in farm and ranch stores, I apologize.

And tetracycline is certainly not a wormer. Take it back and complain to the store manager.

 

[speckledhen]

You may, and thank you for weighing in on this subject.

 

[lonesomerider]

You're welcome. Idiots who try to pass themselves off as knowing something when they're just faking it, really torque me.....as you can probably tell. The ones I knew almost always were there just for the paycheck and seldom lasted for more than a month or two when they found they were also expected to do some manual labor. In the meantime, they drove just about everybody else.....fellow employees AND customers....NUTS.

And Ambabya,you really do need to take the tetracycline back and complain. It's the only way the management will know that not everything is okay with this guy.