We now have 12 baby chicks, meat birds, that are about 1 week old. Bought them at the farm store last saturday, a unplanned purchase.
Years ago, we have chickens and other barnyard fowl around so nothing real new to us. I don't remember ever raising babies up though. Hubby gave them a slice of dry bread this morning....and they went nuts over that. Hope a week old is not too young to start them on people food
We do have a bag of regular chick starter feed for them.
We want to put them in a cage on the lawn so they can get some green stuff. How soon would something like lettuce be for them ?
Goal is to get them big enough so the roosters can be for meat, and hopefully a few hens and see if we can get some kind of building made for them. It would be great to have a few eggs every day. We bought a straight run so not sure how many of each we have.
Years ago, we have chickens and other barnyard fowl around so nothing real new to us. I don't remember ever raising babies up though. Hubby gave them a slice of dry bread this morning....and they went nuts over that. Hope a week old is not too young to start them on people food
We do have a bag of regular chick starter feed for them.
We want to put them in a cage on the lawn so they can get some green stuff. How soon would something like lettuce be for them ?
Goal is to get them big enough so the roosters can be for meat, and hopefully a few hens and see if we can get some kind of building made for them. It would be great to have a few eggs every day. We bought a straight run so not sure how many of each we have.