GypsyJazmine Learning the Ropes
Posts : 144 Join date : 2010-06-10 Location : S.W. Iowa
| Subject: We have unexpected chicks...HELP! Thu 17 Jun 2010, 1:15 pm | |
| Much to my surprise there were 3 baby chicks in our chicken house this morning...The kids usually take care of the chickens & do bring the eggs up but evidently they missed a few somewhere...It is very warm in the chicken house & I am wondering if they need a heat lamp or brought into the house?...Do they need special starter feed?...We already put a warterer in their for them...I have raised chicks one time before & they were the adults we have now but we didn't have the chicken house then & it was early spring & much cooler out so we raised them in the house...Any advise would be appreciated!...Off to do more research now. | |
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Posts : 1798 Join date : 2009-10-19 Age : 47
| Subject: Re: We have unexpected chicks...HELP! Thu 17 Jun 2010, 1:22 pm | |
| - GypsyJazmine wrote:
- Much to my surprise there were 3 baby chicks in our chicken house this morning...The kids usually take care of the chickens & do bring the eggs up but evidently they missed a few somewhere...It is very warm in the chicken house & I am wondering if they need a heat lamp or brought into the house?...Do they need special starter feed?...We already put a warterer in their for them...I have raised chicks one time before & they were the adults we have now but we didn't have the chicken house then & it was early spring & much cooler out so we raised them in the house...Any advise would be appreciated!...Off to do more research now.
NOt a chicken expert But chicks need to be kept at a certain temp. I would feed medicated feed. Because they are suspetble. (SP) to alot of diseases. If they get a draft they can get really sick.. Long time ago. when I bought 25 of them. I kept them in a kids pool in the house.. LMAO Other then that.. congrats mommy.. ha ha ha ha.. I love what little chicks look like.. Take some pics | |
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GypsyJazmine Learning the Ropes
Posts : 144 Join date : 2010-06-10 Location : S.W. Iowa
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