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How To Care For A Chick - First 60 Days:
- Young Chick Brooder - Can be as simple as a sturdy cardboard box or a small animal cage like one you'd use for rabbits.
- Flooring - Pine shavings work best
- Temperature - 90 to 100 deg. for the first week, decrease 5 deg. per week. A 100 watt bulb pointing in one corner (not the whole brooder) works well.
- Food & water - chick crumbles / starter & a chick waterer
- Play time - Play with your chicks when young to get the use to being around people.
- Outside time - Section off an area in your yard where the chicks can explore, scratch, etc. Make sure you can catch them when it's time to come in.
- More details: see Raising Chicks in Related Links
Chicken Care After First 60 Days, General Chicken Care:
- Chicken Coops - Once feathered out you'll want to move your chickens into a chicken coop! Rule of thumb is about 2-3 square feet per chicken inside the henhouse and 4-5 sq/ft per chicken in an outside run. Keep local predators in mind and make a safe home for your flock!
- Flooring - Pine shavings work best. You can even try the deep litter method for even less maintenance.
- Food & water - Most people go with chicken layer feed / pellets. You can even make a homemade chicken feeder / waterer
- Treats - Vegetables, bread, bugs, chicken scratch (cracked corn, milo, wheat)
What else can I help you with?
Do Chickens look like headless babies?
Chickens can live without their heads for up to two years. Chickens do not normally look like babies... they dont have feathers or wings. So therefor, chickens do not look like headless babies. No, obviously you are not a farm gal/boy. Yes they do, because if you stand it up on its legs and twist its wings round to the front
What does north Korean money look like?
it has chickens on it
Are chickens easy to look after?
After they get used to their surroundings, yes.
Do chickens look like their young?
No baby birds are born with fine feathers called down that makes them look fluffy and almost furry. When they grow up they develop regular feathers and look like chickens.
Why do your chickens look wet?
cause that's how God made them
Why do young chickens look like their parents?
It is because of genetics.
Who is the best broody hens?
I have Silkie Chickens who are very broody, they are little bantam chickens that look like little cotton balls.
What it look like bee pollen?
because chickens cant fly
Why does china look like a chicken?
cos its been invaded by chickens
How did chickens get their wings?
Umm..... Chickens are kind of born with wings... But people think in some way that chickens were related to dinosaurs. Well the flying ones I should say. Maybe you should look up the history of flying dinosaurs and then look up a chicken. It might help you quite a bit
Why do bananas look like chickens?
Because they are close cousins. That's also why dogs look like apples
What lays eggs in Rune Factory?
Cluckys. They are monsters that look like chickens.
