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Any leg problems with them being on the wire floor? I want to remove the puppy pads that I have placed on top of the wire floor in their brooder cage but I didn't know if the wire floor would be too hard on their tender little feet.
I never have any leg problems with a wire floor. I put chicks, keets and poults on the 1/2X1/2 wire floor. I put quail and pheasant chicks on 1/4X1/4 wire.
Daproper wrote,
Ours are on chick starter - actually 26%, which is the highest I can find around here (Michigan).
That will be fine. You can boil eggs if you want and chop them up and feed it to them. The youl is great, cheap protien. I hope the red light helps. I don't know how big of a brooder you have and how cold it is there but the 250 watts they carry at like TSC or walmart is too big for some brooders and use a ton of electricity. I use a 75W in my small brooders and you can find them at pet stores.
Any leg problems with them being on the wire floor? I want to remove the puppy pads that I have placed on top of the wire floor in their brooder cage but I didn't know if the wire floor would be too hard on their tender little feet.
I never have any leg problems with a wire floor. I put chicks, keets and poults on the 1/2X1/2 wire floor. I put quail and pheasant chicks on 1/4X1/4 wire.
Daproper wrote,
Ours are on chick starter - actually 26%, which is the highest I can find around here (Michigan).
That will be fine. You can boil eggs if you want and chop them up and feed it to them. The youl is great, cheap protien. I hope the red light helps. I don't know how big of a brooder you have and how cold it is there but the 250 watts they carry at like TSC or walmart is too big for some brooders and use a ton of electricity. I use a 75W in my small brooders and you can find them at pet stores.
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