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You mentioned smoothing the transition by mixing food and it reminded me of upset dog tummies. Surely chicken poop can't get anymore disgusting than it already it, LOL.

Hooray, because it's hard to keep the brooder smelling daisy fresh every day! I never realized they would waste sooo much food. They fling pine chips in their food and water and poo on their feeder and waterer. I swear I must change their water four or five times a day. I finally got tired...

Great! I got little dishes that mount to the hardware cloth of the coop for the grit and oyster shell. I bought EVERYTHING and read EVERYTHING. I've wanted chickens for as long as I can remember so I was (and am) scared to death of doing anything that might jeopardize their health and safety...

Thank you. Do they need grit before I expand to foraging? Do they need calcium before they begin laying?

Thank you for that thoughtful response. I didn't have children but I am quickly realizing I would have been the type of mom who boiled her baby's pacifier every time it hit the floor :) I had not considered spoilage. I placed the food in gasketed food grade containers to keep the air out...

My chicklets (somewhere between a chick and a pullet?) are almost 7 weeks old and I live in GA. They SEEM to have most of their feathers and they are getting OMG big!! I have a coop but we're installing hardware cloth around the base (to thwart burrowing predators) before we move the chicks...