got bad advice from a chicken website...

[Cetawin]

I think they will be just fine. If you want to treat them....scramble an egg for them and put a little plain yogurt mixed in the egg.

I keep mine on medicated chick starter for - 8 weeks, then I switch to a grower and when someone in the group starts laying, I switch to layer. As bigger babies (3+ weeks), mine loved steamed brown rice, baked sweet potatoes, green peas, my sandwich when they can snatch it away from me and cold watermelon. Treats are just that...treats. Ducks must have greens immediately but not chicks.

 

[Sozoed]

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Good advice from gryeyes-grit will help prevent crop impaction.

One person recommended paraket grit without calcium for a proper chick grit. What do you think of this?

 

[Sozoed]

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Do you need to provide grit for all these extras?

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Your chicks will be fine. Do you think when they're with momma out scratching in the yard that they only eat starter feed? I have chicks of all different ages mixed together right now and they get treats.

 

[ginormous chicken]

They'll be fine.. relax... like what was already stated by many above. If you are really worried, give em some chick grit if the ingested a LOT. From what I am hearing, it wasn't that much. But as a general rule... boiled eggs and plain yogurt and start n' grow are about all I give until they are past 6 weeks.

 

[WriterofWords]

from NM, and I've never used grit one time.

 

[what's kickin' chicken]

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[GhostRider65]

My babies arrived the 23rd of March, they are on sand and have baby grit available, they get an egg mashed for them every other day, the other day a few peices of left over broccoli, I mashed it up with some chick feed and they ate it like piggies. Today they had a strawberry, and a couple grapes grated up. they didn't eat much a spoon full was all I gave them, there's 22 chicks in the brooder but they loved it. so far have had no problems with them. I have seen momma chickens cox their babies to eat what was thrown out to them including noodles, and meat still on the heads of butchered animals, also seen them raid a garden with momma and eat greens lettace, tomatoes,so I ain't super worried about the few things I have been giving them. Kim

 

[Yay Chicks!]

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Good advice from gryeyes-grit will help prevent crop impaction.

One person recommended paraket grit without calcium for a proper chick grit. What do you think of this?

You shouldn't need any grit when you are just feeding chick feed, or treats like egg and yogurt. If they eat something that needs "teeth" a little chick grit in a dish is a safe thing to offer them.

I've only heard of parakeet grit as having calcium...which is why you don't give it to chicks as their kidneys cannot handle the extra calcium. But I have no idea if there is a parakeet grit without calcium. I gave mine "chick grit."

 

[RedReiner]

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x2 I somehow have to wonder how baby chicks ever lived without us humans interfering lol my broody found her babies all sorts of stuff to eat their first week of life. greens, meat, scratch etc. anything she could get a hold of she gave to them. I spent hours watching her teach them what was good and what was not. I hatched some here in the house, they are a week old and they have grit to go with whatever treat I bring them. chick starter to of course