Cornish Crosses feeding schedule problems

[Corgo]

Reposted this in the meat bird section, where it probably belonged .. but can’t figure out how to delete this post?

Need a little help with my Cornish Crosses please! This is my first time raising meat chickens, I have raised lots of layers and frankly they are easier I think. Lol I bought 40 and everything was going well. I started picking food up for 12 hours at night on Day 5 after reading instructions to do so. Today is Day 7 .. Well they spend all night up, losing their minds from the lack of food. They are in the brooder with lights on them, it’s in the 30’s/40’s here at night. This morning I found one of the smaller ones trampled from their craziness. What am I doing wrong, how do I fix it? They have plenty, plenty of room in the brooder, I have thermometers down under the lights, they are staying plenty warm and have room to self regulate. They have three fresh water jugs. It’s the lack of food, they pretty much go into a frenzy running over top of and crashing into each other. Should I leave food 24/7 for them until they get old enough to go in the coop? (no lights at night, so they’d sleep)

 

[Kusanar]

Hello, I see you already re-posted on another thread, hopefully you got the help you needed on that thread. In the future, if you have an unanswered thread that you would like to delete, just click the report button and ask the mods to delete it and explain why ("wrong section, duplicate thread" would be a good explanation for this one).

I see you are also somewhat new (a month) so welcome to BYC and please understand we aren't usually super slot to respond to posts, there have just been a LOT of new members and with a lot of new members come a lot of new questions and threads so we're working to catch back up.