Rickets diet

Egglive · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 267

I've heard the rickets diet usually has a protein boost in it also - maybe a spoon of catfood added if it suits the needs.

Kylie · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 9:04 am

The cat food needs to be beef doesn't it :?:

Egglive · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 267

Can't see why it needs to be - but the chooks do seem to like it better.

ganty · **Joined:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:07 am **Posts:** 1

Hello how young does this problem affect chicks please I may have 2 chicks with rickets but they are only 2 weeks old

Carol NZ · **Joined:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:12 pm **Posts:** 4792

Not likely to affect them at that age, are you feeding them chick starter?

Saunders Family · **Joined:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:55 am **Posts:** 1

Is it ok to give chooks hard boiled eggs as a precaution to help prevent rickets sort of like a vaccine?

Egglive · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 267

Cooked eggs are good for chickens, especially the yolks. They are full of vitamins. I scramble my excess eggs for my growing birds & they love it.

Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D3, calcium or phosphorus, or an inability to absorb nutrients for some reason.

Feeding them good tucker is different from a vaccine though. Using a vaccine is a way of helping them acquire immunity to a disease.

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