so, when are my chicks old enough for table scraps? Right now the dog and cats are getting fat, and all these veggie peelings are going in the trash! I have 5 week old chicks (all kinds! lol) and they are feathered out and on to grower feed crumbles right now.
So, I have a mixed up bunch of chicks: leghorns, orpingtons, black australorp, barred rock, and production reds... Some for meat, some for eggs. They just turned 4 weeks old. We check them 2x-3x a day and add feed and clean out the 1-gal waterer, but every so often when I go out there they are...
Yesterday we moved our 2 1/2 week old chicks to the barn, dirt floor pen with a heat lamp and clean water and food (clean them out 2x-3x a day). They had out grown the basement. They have some feathers and seem to be loving it (There are 26 of them)
This afternoon I was cleaning out their...