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I would avoid bread with yeast in it... it can cause a crop infection called Sour Crop.

Is that where they come from? I haven't looked when I bought them at the pet store.

I buy live meal worms and crickets from the pet store. They're intended as reprise feed, but the chickens do go nuts for them! You can also by dried ones from the grocery store or where they sell wild bird food.

If you feed them anything but chick crumble, you have to offer them grit. The crumble is easy to break down, but anything else, that's why they have a gizzard... but the gizzard has to have grit in it to do its job.

- At what age can you start offering chicks treats and how do you go about it? I waited until they were about 2 weeks old before one day deciding to grab some parakeet grit and living meal worms... Once they figured out the worms were food, they went mad for them! - What treats do you give...