Are sebright chicks really hard to raise?

[Dinos_rock]

I read in a chicken breed book that sebright chicks are really difficult to raise (without them dying). Is this true? I already ordered a sebright chick and I don't want it to die.

Is there anything I can do to help it have a better chance of surivival? (vitamins or something?

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[conny63malies]

I got two from the banty bin at TSC and they were just as normal as the rest.

 

[Dinos_rock]

ok, thanks.

 

[lknight]

I have one too, in with the standard size chicks. She is 6 weeks now and I haven't had any problems either.

 

[dangerouschicken]

I think they are harder to hatch than just plain raise.

They are spazzos, though

 

[Sparrow]

I have 2 Silver and 2 Gold Sebrights on the way too! I plan to give them vitamins in their water for the first few days just because they w ill be sooo tiny. When are yours arriving? Mine are scheduled for next week. I'm so excited!

 

[Dinos_rock]

Lucky! I'm so jealous.

Mine aren't coming until August 4. Where did you order from? I ordered from mpc.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I dont under stand why people keep saying that Sebrights are hard to hatch and raise.

I just incubated 13 Silver Sebright eggs, and all 13 hatched fine. I almost always get 100% hatches on my sebrights. I have sebright chicks that are around 1 month old. All are doing great, and I have not lost one. I also have 13 sebright chicks that are around 1 week old, and I havent lost one of those either.

In my opinion they are one of the easiest breeds to hatch and raise.

 

[rjv_piper]

My nieghbor hatches and raises them. He says they don't have a very good fertality rate, but they are easy to raise. My grandma loves silver sebrites so I'm going to get her some

 

[coffeemama]

I hatched sebrights just fine too, and they were fine as chicks. Dunno where this comes from!