Medicated chicken feed for treating parasites

[Texas Ranger]

Hey guy thought I would post on something I have been talking with some Importers about. I have talked to a few importers and they are saying one of the best thing to do with fresh WC reptiles is gut load useing a high quiality medicated chicken feed. It is good for them and really knocks out the perasites many coccidia and it is in low doses so the cham or reptile dosent even know it is being treated so there is no stress factor in there to cause more problems like with dosing with meds.
I am really intersted in hearing what all you guys think it sounds like a good thing to me and chickens are closley related to reptiles so I have heard.

 

[Dez]

I had tried to research that recently because we got some chickens and I noticed the feed was treated with meds to fight coccidia... So I started to wonder if it would be a good cricket gutload...

However everything I came up with was negative. It wasn't the same type (species ?)of coccidia and the corn content in chick feed was not good.. I don't remember all the stuff I read. My brief research yielded no defendant answers and seemed to be more Cons than Pros....



My chick feed contains Amprolium which I have seen to control coccida in birds but have not found it anywhere to treat a reptile....??

 

[Texas Ranger]

That is kind what I was reading. But at the same time I heard from a few vets and importers that a coccidia cyst is a coccidia cyst and that any med designed to kill one will kill them all it just how fast they kill that kinda coccidia cyst. But I am not sure thats why I made this thread
Also on the corn in it. they seid a little wont kill them mix it in with your reguler dry gut load diet and there should be no problems but they also seid the point is to kill the parisites not to just keep them on or keep mixing the feed in with there reguler diet so no long turm use is what I got out of that.