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HELP! I have a chick and don't know what to do with it.

Discussion in 'Raising Baby Chicks' started by dcphotos, Dec 26, 2009.

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  1. Dec 26, 2009 #1
    dcphotos

    dcphotos Out Of The Brooder

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    My wife bought me an incubator for my birthday. We put 2 eggs in it and decided to see what would happen. So now we have a brand new baby chick, amazingly cute. The feed store is closed until Monday. What can we feed it in the meantime? Should we just crush up the regular chicken food? We will hit a pet store shortly.
     
  3. Dec 26, 2009 #2
    Luke0987654321

    Luke0987654321 Chillin' With My Peeps

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    scrambled eggs
    bredcrumbs with egg yolk or regular chicken food groung up
     
  5. Dec 26, 2009 #3
    Overeasyplz

    Overeasyplz Chillin' With My Peeps

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    congratz! [​IMG]
    welcome! [​IMG]
     
  7. Dec 26, 2009 #4
    PandoraTaylor

    PandoraTaylor RT Poultry n Things

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    [​IMG] Awesome
    where is the pictures? [​IMG]

    scrambled eggs, oatmeal, Parrot handrearing food (Kaytee or Exact)

    groundup adult food may have to much Calicum!
     
  9. Dec 26, 2009 #5
    Sillystunt

    Sillystunt Master of the Silly

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    well they can go 2 days after hatching with no food(absorb the yolk) The scrambled eggs is probally the best way to go. Just keep it warm in a brooder box (95* or so)

    layer food can mess up it's kidneys. PLEASE don't give it that!
     
  11. Dec 26, 2009 #6
    al6517

    al6517 Real Men can Cook

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    Although it's cute and fluffy it will survive with some water and crushed up egg, but please next time try to plan your hatch a little better. A little common sense and prior planning go a long way. good luck.

    AL
     
  13. Dec 26, 2009 #7
    19hhbelgian

    19hhbelgian Pigs DO Fly!!

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    I would go with the scrambled eggs & water. Keep him/her warm like the other poster said, and POST SOME PICTURES!!! [​IMG] Good luck!
     
  15. Dec 26, 2009 #8
    rancher hicks

    rancher hicks Chicken Obsessed

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    Quote:I love it! [​IMG] To see what would happen. [​IMG] What did you think would happen? [​IMG] Maybe you thought it was a slow cooker like a crock pot and you were making breakfast 21 days in advance? [​IMG]
     
  17. Dec 26, 2009 #9
    dcphotos

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    Well it worked. I'm not one for prior planning. But I can do the pictures part(my profession), he is due to have studio portraits made this evening.

    We asked a vet. He suggested grits. I have both scratch and regular feed out back, perhaps I'll try a blend and some scrambled egg, but the egg part just sounds so cannibalistic.
     
  19. Dec 26, 2009 #10
    JestersEye

    JestersEye Chillin' With My Peeps

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    That's what my mom and sister said when I brought some turkey scraps out to our flock last night! [​IMG]

    I'd never given them poultry meat before, but read on BYC that other chicken-owners feed it to their chooks sometimes.

    I gotta tell ya... they absolutely LOVED it! It even persuaded my broody hen to eat in front of me, for the first time she she started setting, almost three weeks ago. It was SO worth it to see her eat some protein! [​IMG]
     
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