Bryce Thomas
Songster
I have an idea: I have a giant dog cage with plastic flooring and food and water and stuff, and the dog cage is in the massive pen with the roo and other hens. I have plastic wrap that goes from 0-12 inches of the bottom up of the cage, so the lower half of the cage is covered in wrap so chicks cant escape and the dog cage I have also opens from above so I dont have to cut a door or anything. I have never tried this, but I think it might work.
I have a couple of concerns. Can I use a regular waterer for mom and the chicks? And how do I have chick feed with no calcium and adult feed with calcium and the hen eats adult feed and chicks eat chick feed? I am a novice with chick raising, I am raising my first clutch of 4 silkie chicks right now. Any help would be appreciated of letting mom raise her chicks instead of brood chick raising in a brooder
In the video we can see how this woman raised her broodies with chicks in the coop, so I would do it from learning off this video, but how would I have feed and waterers? (Yes i know about having rocks in the water so chicks don't drown, but what about chick and adult feed)
I have a couple of concerns. Can I use a regular waterer for mom and the chicks? And how do I have chick feed with no calcium and adult feed with calcium and the hen eats adult feed and chicks eat chick feed? I am a novice with chick raising, I am raising my first clutch of 4 silkie chicks right now. Any help would be appreciated of letting mom raise her chicks instead of brood chick raising in a brooder