Hen Feeding Baby Chicks | Tiny Chickens Eating For The First Time Rare Lavender Bantam
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Date: 2020-12-02

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What do baby chicks eat? Just like their parents, baby chicks can eat a lot of different things. However, what baby chicks can eat and what they should eat are different things. If you want to raise healthy, strong chickens you need a good chick starter feed with the right nutrient levels to meet their needs.
Chick Starter Feed
You have two main options when it comes to choosing a chick starter feed:
Buy a Commercial Chick Starter Feed
Make Your Own Chick Starter
Purchasing a chick starter feed is easy. They are typically mashes or crumbles, and have all the nutrients that a baby chick needs. However, many people prefer to make their own because it less expensive or so they can control the ingredients.An organic chick starter feed or a homemade chick starter feed can be many things.

Homemade Chick Starter Feed
Here are a few ideas:
What to Feed Baby Chicks During the First Week
After the yolk sac nutrients are used up, you can give your baby chicks a simple diet of bread (whole grain is best) soaked in milk with Hard Boiled or Scrambled Eggs. A great protein boost and wonderful for their little bodies that need extra supplies of it! Eggs have  vitamins baby chicks need, and lots of selenium, an important mineral that is not found in many other foods.
What Baby Chicks Can Eat After Week #1
As they get bigger your chicks can start eating leafy greens like alfalfa, clover, spinach, lettuce or cabbage. They love meat scraps, but they don’t need much. An ounce of meat a week per 10 chicks is enough. Start adding grains like whole wheat, barley, millet or oats to their feed. Split peas, sunflower seeds and flax add protein and healthy fats to the diet. Feed milk and other dairy products.
Baby Chicks Need Grit
Be sure to provide grit to your chicks; like grown chickens they lack teeth and use grit to grind up their food. Sand works well for chicks.
Foraging
After 3-4 weeks the chicks can go out foraging in warm weather under supervision. They love green grass. 
As long as you are providing your chicks with the nutrients they need, there are plenty of DIY alternatives to traditional chick starter.
For example, you could feed:
Hard-boiled eggs mashed with oatmeal
Milled oats
Small amounts of bread or lettuce
Worms
Cornmeal mixed with uncooked oatmeal
Eggs with stale bread crumbs
Scaled biscuit meal with parsley
Just make sure you meet the nutritional needs  
Holistic items such as herbs, probiotics, and colloidal silver work together to optimize the health of your flock.
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yellowish, foamy diarrhea
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poor appetite
lethargy
standing alone with closed eyes
weight loss due to inability to absorb nutrients in food death

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