Hey peoples, I picked up my week-old chicks on Wednesday and when I did I also bought 3lbs of medicated chick feed. This being my first time, I thought that 3 lbs would be more than enough to last till Monday so that I could go to a feed store. Wrong! They figured out quite easily how to bill out the vast majority of their food and it was lost in the pine shavings. I have to take out the feeder to get them to pay any attention to the stuff on the floor, but I can see that even with their picking they are not filling their crops.
Now to make things worse, my car busted a fuel line on Friday and my friend took it to the shop, but I won't know anything about my car until Monday. I have a small amount of the medicated feed left, but only barely a cup. I rigged up a new feeder that makes it more difficult to bill out their food. Yet I still need some tips on common household food that I might be able to give to them to hold them off. I do not have any grit/sand/pebbles for them and I can't let them free range in my backyard, so what I can feed 1-2 week old chicks that they can actually eat without fear of impacting their crops?
Any tips?
Now to make things worse, my car busted a fuel line on Friday and my friend took it to the shop, but I won't know anything about my car until Monday. I have a small amount of the medicated feed left, but only barely a cup. I rigged up a new feeder that makes it more difficult to bill out their food. Yet I still need some tips on common household food that I might be able to give to them to hold them off. I do not have any grit/sand/pebbles for them and I can't let them free range in my backyard, so what I can feed 1-2 week old chicks that they can actually eat without fear of impacting their crops?
Any tips?