What do I feed?

[jarcoo0153]

I have one flock of chickens that are 3 weeks old, and I had them vaccinated for Marek's and fed them Purina Start and grow. Now My friends are giving me four duck that are a few days old and he has been feeding a chick starter, ( I didn't think you could do that). I also have 31 chickens and two guineas coming next friday( I forgot to tell the hatchery to vaccinate.) So my question is do I need to start using flock raiser, or can I stick with start and grow since they were not vaccinated like the rest of my flock?
Thanks,
Jared

 

[easttxchick]

In MY opinion, all of your birds can eat the Start and Grow(as long as it isn't medicated).
If it IS medicated, your ducks can't eat it-you could get them a Game Bird Starter/Grower which your guineas can also eat.

 

[NYREDS]

There's no reason why ducks can't eat medicated chick starter. In days past chick starter was medicated with an arsenic compound that was fatal to ducks. Modern starters are medicated with Amprollium, a thiamine blocker, which is fine for ducks.

 

[Chris09]

I agree with NYREDS all the way.
I hatch a round 50 to 100 ducks a year and I have no problem with them eating medicated feed.
Like NYREDS said today's medicated poultry feed is medicated with Amprollium and all Amprollium witch is Corid.


easttxchick-
Most Game Bird Starter/ Grower is medicated with Amprollium also... (Some are non-medicated)

Chris

 

[jarcoo0153]

Thanks for the help!