VET Rx?

[Hillbilly Rooster]

Can anyone tell me it you can eat the eggs after using this product it has nothing in the instructions that states you cannot.

If I put it in a vaporizor will this work in coop for them to breath and combat the dust?

 

[Eggs4Sale]

Is it a liquid-form med called Vet RX? What is the medication supposed to do, according to the bottle?

Threehorses knows all the meds. If you don't get a response, pm her directly.

 

[Judy]

I looked at the website and I would certainly eat the eggs. Not quite sure why you would be using it for them to breathe or for dust, so don't know whether it will work for you, though I see it can be put in a vaporizer.

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

Respitory, feed scales, eye worms stuff like that. As the bottle says mostly for the respitory.

I maybe over carrying but I have spent alot of time and money as everyone here has I dont want to loose a chicken. My wife wants me to but I like the 80 that we have.

They are fun since I am home alone most of the time.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

Well, ddawn says the eggs will be safe. At the worst, maybe eating the eggs will clear up your feed scales and eye worms. Then you could market this wonder-egg!

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

It also says some things to help prevent colds in flocks and in preventing disease in birds returning from shows and fairs.

Just taken precaution.

My wife picked up stuff for the water antibotic.

TETRACYCLINE HYDROCHLORIDE SOLUBLE POWDER

It says not for use in turkeys and chickens producing eggs for human consumption. Do not use for more than 14 consecutive days.

So this cannot be used?

Then it has the warning: Do not slaughter birds/swine for food within 4 days of treatment.

So you can eat the animal but you cannot eat the eggs of the animal?

 

[Judy]

Chickens are susceptible to certain viral respiratory diseases, but they do not get colds as such. Since they are usually viral, tetracycline will do nothing to prevent them. Giving an antibiotic, when there is no proof (with a culture) that a disease is present which will respond to it, is never a good idea. All you will be doing is building resistance to that antibiotic in that animal, so that if it ever actually needs it, it will be less likely to be effective.

VetRX might help a chicken deal with the symptoms of one of the chicken respiratory diseases, should yours be unlucky enough to contract one, but I have never seen any documentation it will prevent them. If it did, we would all be using it, since some of these diseases can devastate a flock, and the birds can remain carriers for life..

Here is a good introductory article on respiratory diseases of chickens:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=9241

Good luck!

 

[Judy]

Oh, by the way, the labeling on the Tetracycline about eggs is probably required by law. The prudent thing to do for home use would be to discard the eggs for a while, probably a week or two, then eat them. It is possible that this could be a problem if someone in your family is allergic to Tetracycline, or if you sell eggs.

If you do have to give an antibiotic to your chickens, there is better information than I am giving you available, so you would want to research that antibiotic to see.

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

Thank you very much for the site. My chickens dont have any of that just an occassional I dont want to say cough/hack.

Kinda like if they eat to fast or get a mouth full of mud and they cannot get it to come out. No nasal things like that.

Was just going to use the Vet Rx as a precaution. Will that be ok?

 

[Judy]

Well, that's good. Don't see how it could hurt.