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if you just hatched a baby chick, what do you feed it?

i own chickens and a rooster, and im pretty sure one egg has a chick in it. i am now keeping it nice and warm. i have a few days left. once it hatches, what do i feed it, bread crumbs, peanut butter, cracker crumbs????????????HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dollybird

How are your chickens ????

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Dollybird

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mityky

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Colleen

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Chick feed/mash. You buy it at a livestock store. The same place you should be buying the adult chicken food. Why do you have the egg? Why is the hen not setting it?

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mityky

commented 12 years ago

Colleen

No you can not feed it bread. It needs chicken mash.

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mityky

commented 12 years ago

mycatsmom

in an emergency, where you don't have mash, mix up oatmeal with warm water.Don't let it get too thick

commented 12 years ago

Colleen

A new born chick can not eat the mcm. When were you ever a farmer? You can not feed that to a chick!!!

commented 12 years ago

Colleen

mityky , don't worry about it. That egg will never hatch. You do not know how to care for one. Even if it does hatch, unless you have a warming light and real chicken mash and the correct water pan, the chick will die anyway. You need to give the egg back to the hen. I think you just took the egg and she did not abandon it. You tell me you own the chickens, then say your mom and dad know you took the egg. You are going to kill this chick because you think you want to raise one without knowing how raise one. Go tell your parents what you did.

commented 12 years ago

clu

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Chicken eggs have to be turned and have certain humidity if you are hatching them without a hen. You also have to show them how to drink. Baby chicks have to be kept warm. If you have no idea what you are doing, your chicks have little chance of survival!

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mityky

commented 12 years ago

mycatsmom

right. They have to be turned 1/4 of a turn every few hours.And , they have to have humidity in their enclosure, adn of course, a light for warmth.

commented 12 years ago

Colleen

1/2 half turn every 12 hours, that's it. This makes one full rotation every 24 hours. When the chick starts to peep in the egg, then you will want to use a mister to lightly wet the egg to soften the shell. You do not need to keep the shell constantly wet. Again mcm, when were you a chicken farmer? Do not post when you do not know what you are talking about. I grew up on a farm where we raised chickens and all kinds of livestock.

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mycatsmom