What can i feed my baby chickens? What are some good ways to play with them? PLEASE READ?
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These chickens are owned by Melissa’s neighbors – they run all around their backyard. After we prepared dinner, we fed them our vegetable scraps.
Question by $ k!TtL3z<3: What can i feed my baby chickens? What are some good ways to play with them? PLEASE READ?
ok i have a big chicken and she lays eggs and run around by herself..etc… but we recently got 4 baby chicks and have tons more coming! We feed them oyster shells, and corn scratch, but what else? And i let them out everyday but how can i play with them and train them to follow me?
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4 Responses to What can i feed my baby chickens? What are some good ways to play with them? PLEASE READ?
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stop feeding oyster shells,it’s too much calcium ,it will cause you problems.only feed calcium to egg layers.none for roosters or chicks. to tame them you will need to handle them a lot . be careful intoducing the chicks to the old chicken ,she might kill them. let them scratch and find bugs/worms/plants to eat.
the rooster
November 1, 2012 at 9:07 am
We have 150 chicks, we feed them crumbles. They can not digest corn until they are old enough to have grit in their craw.
country girl
November 1, 2012 at 9:11 am
Feed them chick feed medicated and the chicks will probably only fallow a hen.
Adam Z
November 1, 2012 at 10:08 am
I have a large farm with a lot of chickens,free range.I will tell you what i do,new introduction to established birds needs a lot of vigilance & patience.Apart from formulated feed made specially for chickens ,you can include for variety some dry bread crumbs & chopped greens.As they grow older larger grain can be given.Give the oyster shell & corn starch a break,not the best thing for baby chicks.
I don’t think chickens make the best pets to play with,they are great to watch & admire though.Once they get to know feeding time & see you with feed stuff ,they will all follow you to the given spot.This i suspect is more for the food rather than affection for you.
dee k
November 1, 2012 at 10:33 am