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I was just wondering if anyone medicates their animal by medicating the feeders, or if thats even a remotely good idea?
Jim Royal

i do it once a month, if i have RI rats even nursing moms, i place antibotics in their water, you can get them at a livestock store, there is also water soluable vitamins i use, these are both good items to use, but the water bottles gather algea fast, so i wash once or twice a week and don't mix the two in the same bottle, it turns it nasty brown and they won't drink it. the exact names someone can come up with but i think one is tetocycline(sp) yellow and white foil bag. the RI clears up nicely too i might add if caught early enough.
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fish & feeders

But can you inject drugs into your rats and will it have the same value as if it were given orally so you can reduce stress? I suppose this would only work with medications that are given no more frequently than once a week unless the breakdown would be slower and proportional, but that might be hard to determine exactly