What happens to you if you eat these eggs??

[Mrs. Glassman]

I have heard that you can not eat the eggs of chickens who are feed medicated feed.

One of our local feed stores does not sell separate starter & grower. They only sell a combo.

I simply asked for "starter/grower". NOT "medicated starter/grower".

They took it upon themselves to give me medicated, even though that IS NOT what I asked for.

I only realized it was medicated after I had feed my flock (including laying hens), the whole bag.

Yes, It is part my fault for not reading every word on the stupid bag.

It's heavy, so DH never lets me carry it. He always sits it against the wall facing out. The front of the back does not say anything about medication....but, once the bag was empty & I was wadding it up to throw out, I saw the back of the bag read that it was medicated under the ingredients.

We have already eaten these eggs. What now???

 

[EweSheep]

They will be fine.

I've eaten medicated feed eating eggs and suffered no ill effects of it. Neither is my father and mother which they were both sensitive antibotic allergists.

I think the dose is so small that humans wont get it that bad. Just feed it all out until gone and then make your switch to layer feed or unmedicated feed. Or combine the two if you are very worried about it.

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

Thanks!

I was worried I killed my whole family! (kidding) But I was concerned there might be ill effects.

I've stopped using that feed store altogether. The new feed store I am using now, actually asked me IF I preferred medicated or unmedicated BEFORE they sold it to me.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Most medicated feed (not all) just has a small amount of amprolium to prevent cocci. The amount that passes through to the egg wouldn't concern me at all. You get a lot worse chemicals when you buy anything in the supermarket.

 

[wohneli]

You will be fine, but you should feed laying hens layer feed. The layer feed has different nutritional aspects that are needed for the long and short term health of a laying hen.

 

[onedozenphyllises]

Also, I've found with starter/grower that if I want UNmedicated feed, I need to specify that. Apparently medicated is the default, at least at my feed store. Sounds like it is at yours too.

 

[cmom]

I start the pullets on Layer when I get my first egg. I use medicated Starter/Grower. I feed it to the birds until I get my first egg then I switch over to Layer. If I have any Starter/Grower or Grower left over when I get my first egg, I mix in the leftover feed with the Layer feed. I have never had any problems. The amprollium in the starter helps in the chicks development in their resistance to cocci. It is sulfa based. There is only a problem eating the eggs layed by the birds that have had the medicated feed when they start to lay if you have any alergies to Sulfa.

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

At the moment, I only have 1 hen (the moma hen) laying. The rest are still too young.....So I was feeding everyone the starter/ grower, and eatting her eggs.

 

[norcal]

I switched to flock raiser at 16 weeks, from the medicated starter. Now am mixing the flock raiser w/ layer crushed crumble (as one started laying at 18 wks, and another at 18.5 wks). I have noticed that my free ranging roo doesn't like the new layer crumble, I'm hoping the hens & other roo do when they are strictly on the layer (not the mixed).

 

[Metanoia]

sounds like a personal preference thing

I refuse to give mine pellets

I went for a grain combo that is supposed to be good for hens from point of lay stage,
but I found it contains small stones (and I already give them shell grit) and they don't eat half of the grain types
Now I am feeding them mostly plain wheat and letting them free range on weekends.

Their first eggs are the sweetest I have ever tasted.