trembling legs?

[laughingdog]

I switched from flock raiser to dumar (20%) chick/duckling starter/grower, adding ground down shaken niacin into water (it doesn't mix well normally a pharmacist told me), and add nutridrench poultry vit and min conditioner. Mostly ducklings getting better now, but on still bowed in legs, one still bowed in legs with joints loose and stuck out so looks lik pontoon boat, one with swithed leg and foot sorta backwards and out. i got hold of very patient lady at purina who took all the info down, and said they'll be doing a thorough investigation of the line ect and keep me involved.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I switched from flock raiser to dumar (20%) chick/duckling starter/grower, adding ground down shaken niacin into water (it doesn't mix well normally a pharmacist told me), and add nutridrench poultry vit and min conditioner. Mostly ducklings getting better now, but on still bowed in legs, one still bowed in legs with joints loose and stuck out so looks lik pontoon boat, one with swithed leg and foot sorta backwards and out. i got hold of very patient lady at purina who took all the info down, and said they'll be doing a thorough investigation of the line ect and keep me involved.

Glad to hear that yours are on the mend. If you administer medicated chick starter , that negates the effectiveness of the nutridrench. Amprolium ( in the chick starter ) is a vit B blocker. It actually starves the coccidia of B and so eliminating it. So if you up the niacin and continue with medicated feed , you are back to where you started. Clear as mud I know.

 

[Speceider]

G

Glad to hear that yours are on the mend. If you administer medicated chick starter , that negates the effectiveness of the nut. Amprolium ( in the chick starter ) is a vit B blocker. It actually starves the coccidia of B and so eliminating it. So if you up the niacin and continue with medicated feed , you are back to where you started. Clear as mud I know.

That's not entirely correct. Amprolium is an analoge not a blocker (similar chem structure to niacin). Cocci requires extendly high levels of niacin for growth, hence it is about 50 times more sensitive. You are not negating the added niacin by using medicated starter.

Clint

 

[Fancychooklady]

G
That's not entirely correct. Amprolium is an analoge not a blocker (similar chem structure to niacin). Cocci requires extendly high levels of niacin for growth, hence it is about 50 times more sensitive. You are not negating the added niacin by using medicated starter.

Clint

Yes your right, blocker was probably the wrong word. Inhibitor is the word I was looking for.
By administering both at the same time , who knows where the levels are?