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we let them out daily to run around on a blanket. that's when i sprinkle shavings and mix it up with my hand to aerate it. So as long as it doesn't stink it's ok?

on a side note, how about shavings? i have 4 chicks and i'm changing them out totally every 4 days. i sprinkle new stuff on every day or so. but even at 4 days, nothing stinks. I know many people here on BYC have like 20 chicks in a brooder and they wait 3 days. Does that carry over to...

none of them are pasty so that's good. what's a good amount per day for 4 chicks? I use a handful every 2 days and there's still most of it left. i also want them to eat the powdery good stuff and not just the solid chunks in the feed. I'm also going to give them kitchen veggie/fruit scraps...

got it. i gave them an earthworm the other day and they looked at it like they didn't know what to do with it. some of them pecked at it but stopped. i took it out because i didn't want it to rot in there. so they get scratch almost when they reach laying stage at 5 months?

oh ok i'll stop with the scratch. so they don't need grit with feed right? after a couple weeks then give scratch as a treat right?

sorry about leaving out the specifics. We got them last friday so they're almost a week. My sis and girlfriend picked them up from the feed store when i was in class. The woman there gave them this organic starter feed, chick scratch, and a bag of grit. She said 50/50 for 2 weeks then...

I've been doing water daily b/c shavings get in no matter how high up it is. for food, i add 50/50 feed and scratch every other day but never dump any out because i think it's wasteful. I pick out the shavings and sometimes poop, and every few days I clean the feeder and put the food back in...