What to feed baby chicks?

Answer 1

I have recently just hatched a dozen baby chicks. Agricultural stores usually sell a feed called start and grow. It looks like crumbs. If you can't find that you should feed them oatmeal, cracked corn, or wheat.

Answer 2

Chicken starter can be purchased from your local stock feed store which has been formulated for feeding to baby chickens.

If you need to feed the baby chicks something until you get to the feed store, you can feed them cooled boiled eggs.

Answer 3

The very best food to offer a newly hatched chick is called Chick starter. This fine grained crumble feed is perfectly balanced nutrition for the fast growing chick. It is small grained and easy for the littlest bird to handle and digest. This food comes in Medicated and non medicated formulas to help protect against common varieties of disease and helps build immune systems as they grow older. My chicks stay on this product until they are at least 4 weeks old and are then switched over to chick grower.

Answer 4

If you're talking about chickens and you don't have any starter feed yet, you can feed them for a day or two on flaked infant cereal or instant oatmeal. Or you can put whole grains (rice, barley, wheat, old fashioned oats etc.) in a blender and blend them a little, but not to a powder. After a while you can try feeding them dried corn or chick feed from a feed store. Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Chicks should be offered a Chick Starter & grower and is available commercially in many brands. Starter is formulated to give new chicks a quick boost in nutrition. Starter is available in both medicated and non medicated forms. If chick starter feed is not available to you then fine crushed layer feed with extra corn will work. You need to crush the feed so the tiny beaks of the chicks can manage it. Young animals, just like human young, can choke on adult food.

Answer 6

Baby chicks should be fed a commercial chick starter feed that is specifically formulated for their nutritional needs. This feed will have the right balance of protein, vitamins, and minerals essential for healthy chick development. Provide clean and fresh water at all times for the chicks to drink.

Answer 7

broiler feed

chick starter

laying pellets

set them lose and let them eat weeds and grasshoppers.

Answer 8

well, im getting baby chicks soon and i read that for the first few days they eat mashes up weatbix with a bit of water. not bugs!! and dont give them chicken feed for a while

Answer 9

Yes. But you might want to MASH it up, just because it's a baby and it's learning how to eat.