HELP!!! Rescued chicks!

[Thumbelina]

Finally got pictures to load!!! Here are my baby peepers!

 

[Kelsie2290]

What cute chicks, glad they are doing well for you. X2, try to find out what the feed is, if it is Layer feed with high calcium you are going to want to get them off of it. Can you find clumps of grass, dirt and all, to put in with them for greens?

 

[Thumbelina]

Yea, I'm trying to find out what the calcium is in it today. The guy that would know was not there yesterday! Also we don't really have grass here but ill find something, I'm making up another box with connecting dolerod's for them. Their ready to explore, and my bathroom and closet are great for the next week or so. After that imma have to move them outside. My neighbor has chicken wire that I can use. Cuz they will get eaten at this age by a number of animals, iguanas,
Mongooses, or male roosters in the area.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They would love to scratch and forage if you could make a place for them outside where they could find bugs and peck at vegetation. Under supervision of course.

 

[Thumbelina]

They would love to scratch and forage if you could make a place for them outside where they could find bugs and peck at vegetation. Under supervision of course.

yep, it's Been raining all day so can't work on setting up a playpen for them outside today. Hopefully Tuesday I can get that going. Today were working on learning to go back and forth between the two large planters I set up in bathroom. Haha they have dolerod's in them for them to pertch on and a big 2x4 connecting them that runs under/behind the sink. One has their food and water the other is just for them to scratch and dig in, I change dirt in that one every other day and mix both boxes dirt every few hours. I just redid the one yesterday and their food planter box needs all new stuff too. But like I said it's raining so cant do much for them today, or myself! Good thing I don't have to do anything today! But They seem to be able to sense the rain and don't feel like doing much. they've been curled up and just hanging out most of the day! They're so cute all curled up though!

 

[Thumbelina]

Also can anyone tell me how I would go about sexing them? I've read that it can differ with breed, but as these are just wild island chicks and all the chickens have bred together at this point, So there is no one single breed! I'm beginning to think I might have 4 females! And I want to be sure, if there is a male I will have to keep him a little longer so he doesn't get attacked by the main Roo in my area. They're territorial.

& If I've gotta take the roo that's here all ready and send him across town to make space for mine,

I Will. Don't want to, but this is my yard ****** and if I want my babies near me. Then so be it. :/