I have seen several post that say not to feed waterfowl medicated feed but I could not find the reason. What is in the medicated feed that is not good for waterfowl? Is this the case for starter, grower, and layer feeds?
When I got ducks a year ago from a chicken breeder who had a few ducks he wanted to get rid of..He told me NON medicated only..He said it was because ducks eat 10 times as much as chickens and with medicated feed they over medicate theirselves...Dont know to be true...So I feed multi-flock game feed its for waterfowl...
The Arsenical Compounds that were once used as coccidistats were deadly to waterfowl. these included Arsanilic Acid,Roxarsone,Carbarsone,Carbosep and Histostat..Amprolium and the Sulfa Drugs are safe for waterfowl.......
I'm feeding flock raiser to my guys. I just bought 4 chicks and a Runner duck. I am considering mixing a little medicated chick start into the feed. I'm new to this, is that a crazy thing to do? I just really don't want any problems. It's going to be a small backyard flock btw, never had chickens here before.