Has anyone tried a "mash" of chick scratch and warm water?

[Cheeky Chick]

My teeny silkies didn't have that full crop feeling this morning, so I added some warm water to the chick starter, let it soak for a few minutes and put it in with the babies.

You would think I gave them caviar and lobster! They are all IN it, and eating voraciously. The little girls, Zen and Karma (I think that's what we're calling her) have full crops and they look happy and sleepy. The big girls are covered in the mush and I think a quick clean up will be in order when they're done.

I'm so crazy about them! My little sweeties.

 

[CKNNWBEE]

How are your silkies doing now? I just put warm water on my girls' chick starter crumble and they thought it was caviar and lobster too! I also discovered a wonderful training tool-live mealworms!

 

[Fur & Feathers]

scratch-as in the corn/seeds/little bits of stuff mix,or is it chick crumbs mixed with water?

with the help of a syringe have managaed to get weak sick chicks to eat a paste made out of warm water and chick crumb before,making stuff warm does appeal to their sense of fine dining [their belly].

here is a recipie woud recommend trying now its getting a lot colder,had read into stuff that woud help keep their body heat up. make some porridge-unsalted/no sugar and put something into it that they love to bits; handful of meal worms for example,or sultanas,mine also like grass to be chopped up into little bits and mixed in.

they honestly tear it out of our hands like their lives depended on it. am living in a residential centre and no one eats the porridge that gets ordered here because its the cheapest make going but the chickens coudnt care less it means more for them.