Chick crumb ingredients

[Millys Mum]

Thanks helen, the maths makes sense for normal cats  but any like my lola will snack on it  dont know why she does cos it doesnt smell as nice as wbcl

[Dawn F]

I'm not worried about it, I use an unmedicated brand and frankly who knows what they get on their paws in the garden etc

[sheryl]

My thoughts exactly Helen but you have explained it mathematically (I would have got in a right mucking fuddle trying to explain what I meant)

[Tiggy's Mum]

Is anybody concerned longterm it could cause excess vitamin issues in a cat? From licking dust etc from paws.

Iv used a sack of duck/goose starter (same as chick crumb but minus the coccidia treatment, all their chick stuff had that in  ) and was looking at the label

vit a 10,000 iu/kg felix has 1,110 iu/kg
vit d3 3,000 iu/kg felix has 140 iu/kg
copper 25mg/kg and felix has 3mg/kg

Was wondering if any body else had pondered it, as we know feeding liver daily can cause issues and that wouldnt be as concentrated as the crumb is 

If one kg of Felix has 1110 iu of Vitamin A then 1 x 100g pouch, which is eaten in it's entirety, has 111 iu.  100g of chick crumb would have 1000 iu, how much of that 100g would be ingested through paw licking?  I think even suggesting that 1g would be ingested is very unlikely but if it was, then it would contain 10 iu which would be equivalent to a tenth of a pouch of Felix.

To even ingest 1g they would have to shoot out of the litter tray and start licking immediately, I think the minute they set foot on carpet any dust residue would be long gone.

[Millys Mum]

If your right Gillian it happened very quickly 

The vitamin a is what i was mainly pondering about being fat soluble it hangs around alot longer and the crumb has 10 times more in it

[Gillian Harvey]

Its one of the reasons I stopped using them in the end, plus I'd made a mistake and had been buying medicated crumbs (at the time this particular brand was so much cheaper and I stupidly believed the pet shop when they said they WERENT medicated - and didnt read the label myself). I'm convinced that ingestion of some of the medicated crumbs over a period of a few months (until I realised) contributed to Gwynnie's problems. You can't avoid ingestion entirely when they wash themselves etc, so I stopped using them altogether.

[sheryl]

I always make sure that I buy the crumb with no hormones and I really dont think that paw licking is likely to cause long term damage - I mentioned to my vet that I use chick crumb and she thought it was a "great idea"  TBH I hardly ever see any of mine washing their paws after using the tray

Some of the clumping litters are so dusty that I would worry more about causing my cats respiratory problems

[Millys Mum]

Is anybody concerned longterm it could cause excess vitamin issues in a cat? From licking dust etc from paws.

Iv used a sack of duck/goose starter (same as chick crumb but minus the coccidia treatment, all their chick stuff had that in  ) and was looking at the label

vit a 10,000 iu/kg felix has 1,110 iu/kg
vit d3 3,000 iu/kg felix has 140 iu/kg
copper 25mg/kg and felix has 3mg/kg

Was wondering if any body else had pondered it, as we know feeding liver daily can cause issues and that wouldnt be as concentrated as the crumb is