Weird question. Kittens are drinking Medicated Milk Replacer

[chicks & ducks]

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Hi all.
We bucket feed 3 of our calves and, sometimes while I'm making the buckets up, the kittens will dip their heads in and try and drink the milk replacer. I'm just wondering if/how harmful this is. To be honest it's not easy to make buckets up AND fight off little kittens but if it's harmful to them I will find a way.
I've tried looking it up on line and can't find a specific yes or no, I can find info on KITTEN milk replacer, but not necessarily kittens drinking medicated calf milk replacer. Just thought I'd throw it out here to see if anyone had any input.

 

[jhm47]

No problem. The only downside is that when we fed replacer to our dairy calves, the cat population exploded. Seems to make them reproduce better.

 

[Azriel]

I have always feed my barn cats milk replacer in the winter and it has helped if any got upper respiratory problems, BUT, this new bag of replacer I just bought for the calves has this warning lable on it.
** Caution** Do not allow horses , dogs, or cats access to Lasalocid as ingestion may be fatal**
The active drug in this replacer is Lasalocid and aids in the control of coccidiosis.
I had never bought this replacer before, it is Dumor Ultra all Milk protein. I had been buying the milk/ soy protein but they were out of everything except this bag that I did buy. I checked the lable on the bag that I had been feeding, and it did not have the warning, but it has a different drug in it. I have always let my dogs lick out the pails that I use for the calves before I wash them, but not now.
I would say check your lables to see if there are any warnings.

 

[jhm47]

Well, if you should decide to let the cats drink it, the population won't explode. Seriously, the trade name for Lasalocid is Bovatec, and it is really bad for non-ruminant animals. It is really a good additive for cattle, sheep, goats, etc. It keeps coccidiosis at bay, and also helps the cattle to digest their feed better, due to a suppression of the "bad" bacteria that sometimes live in the rumen. I feed it in my mineral supplement.