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post #2951 of 3055
3/19/12 at 3:51pm


they all died so far except 3 and I have no idea why..pretty sure the KIDS touched them with nasty hands...ARGH
 

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post #2952 of 3055
3/19/12 at 5:51pm
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they all died so far except 3 and I have no idea why..pretty sure the KIDS touched them with nasty hands...ARGH
 



 


what kind of feed are you using?

 

 

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post #2953 of 3055
3/19/12 at 6:02pm

chick starter

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post #2954 of 3055
3/19/12 at 6:03pm

came from the local feed / pet store..what I've always fed the baby chicks..this just happens to be the first time I've hatched my own..usually I buy them from that same store at a day or 2 old

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post #2955 of 3055
3/20/12 at 5:20am
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YAY, so glad your doing the Easter hatch!! Those are beautiful silkies, I can't imagine how pretty the SQ are!!! Good luck, hope you get some SQ silkies outta the hatch!!!

Thank you, Silkymom!
The question will be..."How will I decide WHAT is SQ and NOT SQ???" And then, What do I do with the "NOT SQ"? How will I be able to get rid of the "NOT SQ" chicks....they are all so cute!


I hatched 6 non SQ silkies my last hatch, I posted an ad on craiglist to sell them and had them sold the next day, I have also hung flyers in gas stations and feed stores near me to sell chicks I didn't want to keep and have never had any trouble. I don't know how long it takes to tell if they are SQ are not, I'm still new to that part myself, I can't even tell outta the 13 silkies I kept which ones are malef or females yet, lol. So if ya get any good advice on that please let me know as well! wink.png
 

 

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post #2956 of 3055
3/20/12 at 7:58am

How sad you lost your chickies!  I dont think its from handling them with dirty hands. I think something else got them like feed or heat .  

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post #2957 of 3055
3/20/12 at 8:43am

yeah, feed is what we are guessing..the local feed people sell it in little paper bags, not in the original bags, guess I'll have to go out of town to get some chick starter. the 3 that survived are doing ok at the moment. but we have 6 more in the bator due to hatch in a little over a week and my daughter has 4-h chicks coming in two weeks...so I need to figure out what the issue is before then..or just start over with other stuff

 

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post #2958 of 3055
3/20/12 at 3:46pm

meshellrose do you have a local feed mill close by. I stoped going to tsc or bigr i go straight to the feed mill by us. and now i supply around 6 people that i know from work with feed for their chickens and they wont go anywhere else either. its alot better qaulity.

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post #2959 of 3055
3/20/12 at 4:32pm
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meshellrose do you have a local feed mill close by. I stoped going to tsc or bigr i go straight to the feed mill by us. and now i supply around 6 people that i know from work with feed for their chickens and they wont go anywhere else either. its alot better qaulity.



I don't think so. We don't have a tsc or other big feed store, we have small town feed store. I'll ask the guy I got my white rocks from. I think he says he gets his feed from a feed mill.

 

 

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post #2960 of 3055
3/20/12 at 6:35pm

what about walmart?   they should have chick starter from mana pro ?     Gee I worry about that feed your giving them !!  its so sad that  we dont want you loose more chickies !!!  

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