It is my experience, a baby chick needs 4 things: heat (usually a light bulb), water (with "Quik Chic" added), food, and fresh bedding....in that order.
After supplying those basic needs if you chick runs in to trouble and gets sick, there are several things I have tried. After dry food is rejected - try adding warm water to make a MASH. If that is not enough - go back to basics. While the chick was forming in the shell it lived on air and one other thing......the yoke! Go back and try boiling an egg. Take out the yoke - mash it up in a bit of water. It may be just the thing.
There are many websites that are wonderful resources.
www.feathersite.com
www.mcmurrayhatchery.com - has a chick care page
to name a few.
Good Luck with your patient.
Maggie
pellet..
About 300$
Generally feed stores carry chick feed.
a small chicken or a baby chick? small chicken: it can eat any scraps that you have, or chicken feed chick: baby chick feed, you can buy it at most stores (like tractor supply company)
because it feeds the baby and if it is not feed it dies
A dog food
no. try going to a local feed store.
the yolk is so that the baby chick, if there is one, can feed! Otherwise the chick would die, because the yolk contains nutrients!
It is not recommended to feed chicks rice baby cereal as their nutritional requirements are different from human babies. Chicks require a balanced diet high in protein to support their growth and development. It is better to provide them with a chick starter feed specifically formulated for their needs.
Chicken starter can be bought from the stock feed store. This is the best to feed your baby chicken as it is formulated for their growth. You can also boil up a chicken egg, cool it, crumble it up and feed that to them as well.
Every 2 hours.
No they should really be fed fresh greens as a treat and depending on the age a chick starter or a chick grower does very well for chicks and ducklings.