UCP Episode 011: Medicated Chick Feed or Not – What Is Best For Your Baby Birds?

Laura Haggarty & Family of Pathfinders Farm

Laura Haggarty & Family of Pathfinders Farm

Many people take up chicken keeping for the particular purpose of having more control

Laura Haggarty, Pathfinders Farm's Buckeye Chickens

Laura Haggarty, Pathfinders Farm’s Buckeye Chickens

over this food source of eggs (and sometimes meat) in a direct response to the world of large agribusiness.  These individuals want hormone and antibiotic free meats and try to raise their birds as naturally as possible.  This raises the question, can you raise healthy, natural birds and eggs if you start the hens with medicated chick feed?  Laura Haggarty of Pathfinders Farm joins the Urban Chicken Podcast today to discuss this very issue.

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