holiday hawk
Chirping
- Apr 12, 2023
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I have four chicks where the youngest is ~10 weeks and the oldest are ~12-13 weeks old. They have been spending about a month living besides the adults run, and I think I am going to try introductions this weekend. Assuming everything seems to go fine (which to my understanding means there might be some pecking and feather pulling, but no blood/excessive aggression by the older birds, please correct me if I'm wrong), then everyone will start to live together very soon. Currently my adults are on all flock feed with oyster shells, as I also have baby ducks, so I figured I might as well switch them from the layer feed to the all flock whenever their last bag of feed ran out. I'm very much a poultry newbie, but I know too much calcium is bad for chicks. Looking at the brand of feed the adults and chicks are on, it seems like they have the exact same amount of calcium, so it should be fine. If so, I'd much rather just feed everyone the adult feed to keep things simple, and save what's left of the chick grower for the ducks (on a side note I never would have guessed ducklings eat that much more chicks!). Could someone please just look at the feeds I'm using and make sure the chicks can switch over to what the adults are eating no problem? Like I said, the calcium percentages seem to be the same, but if possible, I'd rather have someone who knows what they are doing just tell me it's fine for sure!
Adults are eating this
Chicks are eating this
Adults are eating this
Chicks are eating this