How much Food do Baby Chicks need a Day

[thepick4uchicks]

I’m confused.. So is this post about the ones you fed 24/7 or the new ones you’re getting?

That goes for all of us I think. I don’t think we are the problem though. I think that he is the problem or she but we know what we are talking about not the original poster. He ask us for information we didn’t ask him.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

For meals, I have always gone by the rule of if they clean up the food in 1/2 hour, it was enough. If after that time there is some left, take it up if you need to. Is there a reason, such as rats or other birds, to take away the food?

You aren’t feeding dogs you are feeding chicks.

 

[NatJ]

I think it goes like this, with two sets of chicks:

sammie12345 got two white chicks at Tractor Supply more than 4 months ago. The chicks were said to be White Rocks. The chicks were given free feed until they started acting unhealthy (laying down to eat, for example.) After that, the chicks were limit fed, and seem more active and healthier. People on this thread are questioning whether those white chicks might be Cornish Cross, even though Tractor Supply called them White Rocks.

sammie12345 is now planning to get 2 more chicks, Rhode Island Red this time. Because of the previous experience, he/she is planning to limit-feed the new chicks, and wants to know how much food is appropriate.

This thread has wandered back and forth talking about both sets, and about chicken-feeding in general.

@sammie12345 Do I have all that right?

 

[Parront]

You aren’t feeding dogs you are feeding chicks.

I agree. The poster is limit feeding the older birds. An 18 week old bird can eat all they need in 1/2 hour twice a day. After looking at the thread about the older birds, it looks like a Cornish x meat bird. Those will get healthier if fed less, and to get it to 18 weeks is pretty good, in my opinion. I think it is a problem when people do not get what they thought they bought from a store, but it happens pretty often! You really have to starve those meat birds to get them to live to laying age.

 

[Parront]

I think it goes like this, with two sets of chicks:

sammie12345 got two white chicks at Tractor Supply more than 4 months ago. The chicks were said to be White Rocks. The chicks were given free feed until they started acting unhealthy (laying down to eat, for example.) After that, the chicks were limit fed, and seem more active and healthier. People on this thread are questioning whether those white chicks might be Cornish Cross, even though Tractor Supply called them White Rocks.

sammie12345 is now planning to get 2 more chicks, Rhode Island Red this time. Because of the previous experience, he/she is planning to limit-feed the new chicks, and wants to know how much food is appropriate.

This thread has wandered back and forth talking about both sets, and about chicken-feeding in general.

@sammie12345 Do I have all that right?

I think that is correct.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

I agree. The poster is limit feeding the older birds. An 18 week old bird can eat all they need in 1/2 hour twice a day. After looking at the thread about the older birds, it looks like a Cornish x meat bird. Those will get healthier if fed less, and to get it to 18 weeks is pretty good, in my opinion. I think it is a problem when people do not get what they thought they bought from a store, but it happens pretty often! You really have to starve those meat birds to get them to live to laying age.

Sounds like a mess I wouldn’t want to be mixed up in frankly.

 

[mommiesrcool]

I’m confused.. So is this post about the ones you fed 24/7 or the new ones you’re getting?

this post was for me to know how much to feed my rode island chicks when i get them but then we started saying that no matter the age they need to be free feeded and then thats when it got on to my white rocks

 

[mommiesrcool]

I think that is correct.

yes you have everything correct

 

[Parront]

this post was for me to know how much to feed my rode island chicks when i get them but then we started saying that no matter the age they need to be free feeded and then thats when it got on to my white rocks

That was my understanding.

 

[mommiesrcool]

I think that is correct.

but do i have white rocks because at TSC they were labeled Egg Layers but I've been looking at different breeds and mine look like White Rocks what breed do you think i have