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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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set them lose and let them eat weeds and grasshoppers.
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
Yes. But you might want to MASH it up, just because it's a baby and it's learning how to eat.
No do not feed chicks anything but starter chick food! It has everthing that a chick needs to get a good start in life.
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.
Yes - I grew up in the country with chickens and chicks in the garden that ate whatever we didn't straight off the table !
They have yolk like baby chicks
Baby chicks eat baby amounts. They play in the food so there will be a lot of wastage. One cup of food daily should be plenty for six little chicks until they reach about four weeks old and then try to feed them about 2 ounces per day (half cup each per day)
no
Chicks hatch and know instinctively what to eat. Brood hens do not teach or feed the chicks.
Yes
No do not feed chicks anything but starter chick food! It has everthing that a chick needs to get a good start in life.
you must feed them a llot so you can eat them.....
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.
Baby chicks can eat bread but it must be torn into small pieces
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.
they like love and clean chicken feed and clean water
Yes - I grew up in the country with chickens and chicks in the garden that ate whatever we didn't straight off the table !
They have yolk like baby chicks
It depends on where you are and where you get them but yes you can! (: Hope I Helped!