2 week old araucanas... What foods can I introduce?

[hillbillygreen]

Worms? Apple peels? other scraps?

I haven't got any grit yet, but I do have some sandy rocky stuff from the yard.

Oh, an I haven't got any medicated feed... just grower starter, but I do have DE ordered.

Are we doing okay? Chicks seem happy.

Thanks!

 

[MRNpoultry]

Welcome

If you have them walking around they should be eating stuff like grit. If they have been in the yard for a week you could break up a worm. You could mix water with there feed and give that to them. I don't know about the apple peels.

 

[mooman]

I've feed my chickens apples since they were six weeks old, no problems. I teach middle school and I encourage the kids to give me thier apples if they don't want them so I have a huge bowl of chicken apples on the counter. I cut them in half. It is hilarious to watch one of the hens get half an apple stuck on her beak and go tear !#@ing across the yard with the other ones in tow.

 

[ml]

Right now keep it to medicated chick starter and grit. The grit you can find for little chicks at walmart via for cage birds like 1.34 a box in the bird section. Also petsmart carries boxes of grit/sand for cage birds for liek 2.00 a box or up. Wait till they are feathered out before you go on the goodies.

If you must give a treat, try hard boiled egg yolks.

ML

 

[mmajw]

Mine usually get medicated chick starter for about 4-6 weeks.