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You can feed all your flock the chick starter if you want. People shy from the medicated chick start, but you can actually feed the whole flock the Amprolium and eat the eggs as it does not pose a threat to humans. I typically get a flock raiser and feed the whole flock with oyster shell on the...

To add: You should also ask yourself how valuable these chicks are. If they are special breed that you paid a lot of good money for, then more precaution is warranted as sometimes bad things happen to little chicks in the main flock. If that is the case, then you may wish to have a segregated...

First, throw out your ideas of heat lamps and isolation. That is for artificial brooders. I have hatched plenty of chicks with a broody in the dead of winter, once in a two-week freezing rain and snow storm with temps in the teens. I have pics of momma and babies foraging in the snow at 3 to 4...