Since I have a small indoor booder, I also have been taking them out (i try to do this in slow, scooping, calm manner but the leghorn just wont have it) and put them out in a barricaded (boxes, the brooder lid, pannels of wood) makeshift pen and sit with them in a warm room (next to the...
I got my chicks at 2 weeks and I didn't touch them unless I had to for the first 3-5 days just because they were stressed out from the move but after that I just got them used to my hand, luckily they were tame enough to eat out of my hand, but some of them still don't like being picked up. I...
The website I followed for my baby chicks mentioned chick sized grit which I forgot to ask when I went to the place, I sifted my adult grit for the smaller pieces