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Well, It depends on how many chicks you have, If you have 8 or something like that and the mother hen, it would be a medium sized bowl that they can eat from. The sides Cant be too big, otherwize they wouldn't be able to eat. If its just 1 chick a bowl the size of an eggcup would be good.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoMy chicks remain on chick builder up to about 5 months old. As this is often the time when they start to lay their first eggs I switch over to laying MASH or pellets at this time. This helps give them the extra vitamins and minerals they need for those first eggs.
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∙ 14y agoThere really is no hard and fast rule as to when the chicks can come off the chick starter/meat builder and go onto the mash. Here at my farm I keep them on medicated chick starter for the first 6 weeks and move them onto meat builder for the next 16 weeks.
Make the change gradually. At about 6 months old I start adding small amounts of the laying mash and have them totally switched to mash by month 7.
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∙ 15y agoWhenever possible chicks should be started on a product called "chick starter". This is a generic name and made by most well know feed companies. The formula is cheap and basic. It comes in either medicated or un-medicated forms. This food is small grained and just right for small beaks to handle. If this product is not available it is possible to grind or pound regular chicken feed into smaller more easily manageable size for the babies.
If you use un-medicated feed it is recommended that a water soluble vitamin with or without preventative antibiotic is used in the drinking water of the chicks for several days.
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∙ 15y agoIf you cannot provide chick starter or builder then you can offer them layer feed. You may need to pound it down and break it up for the smaller beaks. Chicks can find the smaller grains in the mix and will thrive on this if nothing else is used. Free range chicks along with the mother hen will learn what is good and what to avoid.
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∙ 11y agoFeeding your chicks for a month with chick mash works good and then for a week after that I like to mix chick mash with layer mash and then they will eat what eveyone else does and adjust well to it.
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∙ 14y agoChick feed. You can probably get it at a feed store, it looks like tiny versions of chicken feed.
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∙ 12y agoUntil six weeks of age
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Can you feed chicks rice baby cereal?
No do not feed chicks anything but starter chick food! It has everthing that a chick needs to get a good start in life.
Does the hen feed the baby turkey's?
No, mother hens do not feed their chicks. The mother hen calls her chicks and encourages them to peck food up off the ground in the same way that she does.
Can you feed table scraps to baby chicks?
Yes - I grew up in the country with chickens and chicks in the garden that ate whatever we didn't straight off the table !
When to feed a newly hatched chicken?
They need to have food when out of the shell. Scratch works well.
How come you cannot feed sea monkeys within 5 days?
They have yolk like baby chicks
What do mother chickens feed their baby chicks for breakfast?
Chicks hatch and know instinctively what to eat. Brood hens do not teach or feed the chicks.
Can you feed baby chicks egg shells?
no
Can you feed chicks rice baby cereal?
No do not feed chicks anything but starter chick food! It has everthing that a chick needs to get a good start in life.
What kinds of food should a baby chick eat?
You should go to your local feed store and ask for feed for chicks. After you get the food and feed it to your chicks, it helps to add a little water to it to make thhe food mushy, it will be easier for the chicks to eat it that way.
Do you have to hand feed baby roadrunner chicks?
Yes
What are the release dates for Windy Acres - 2004 Feed Chicks 1-3?
Windy Acres - 2004 Feed Chicks 1-3 was released on: USA: 2004
Does the parent parakeet feed its young?
Yes indeed both parents actually feed the chicks
What month do they sell chicks at feed stores?
late February
What time of day is the ideal time to feed a chicken?
You need to keep back chicks constantly feed and watered use a starter waterer and feeder they need starter feed not regular and if u do that u will have very healthy chicks
How do you feed not hungry chicks in FrontierVille?
If the chicks are not hungry (meaning someone already fed them), you can still just click on them and it will groom them.
Do eagles nurse their chicks?
Birds typically regurgitate to feed their chicks. No birds have mammary glands and thus cannot nurse their young.
How do you care for baby chicks?
you must feed them a llot so you can eat them.....
