How much Food do Baby Chicks need a Day

[Parront]

yes you have everything correct

After all that, I do think that your 2 Rocks are meat birds. You did what you had to, limiting their feed. They look good, but they do not look like a Plymouth White Rock, they have the look of a Cornish x Rock. The chest area is very wide. They stand up more, like a Cornish. If you want to see photos of birds like this look on the meat section of this site.
Here is a link to a thread with some feeding info:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cornish-rock-meat-bird-breeding-project.1400633/

 

[mommiesrcool]

After all that, I do think that your 2 Rocks are meat birds. You did what you had to, limiting their feed. They look good, but they do not look like a Plymouth White Rock, they have the look of a Cornish x Rock. The chest area is very wide. They stand up more, like a Cornish. If you want to see photos of birds like this look on the meat section of this site.
Here is a link to a thread with some feeding info:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cornish-rock-meat-bird-breeding-project.1400633/

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=dUFFeEgwa1hpYkpJdVlUcXZUakZTYkhLSXZvVUpn

 

[mommiesrcool]

heres a video of them the have a lot more feathers than Cornish X Rock

 

[mommiesrcool]

i thought that the reason why they would lay down when they were little when they had feed 24/7 is because they are also used as meat birds that how meat birds were feed and at the time they did not go outside

 

[Parront]

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=dUFFeEgwa1hpYkpJdVlUcXZUakZTYkhLSXZvVUpn

They look very healthy! The older Cornish-X have feathered out, it is the young 6 week olds that look too big for their feathers.
Here is a thread with some photos of breeding Cornish-X. Look at the thickness of the legs and the broad chests.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/toad-raising.1152440/#post-18045134

 

[mommiesrcool]

After all that, I do think that your 2 Rocks are meat birds. You did what you had to, limiting their feed. They look good, but they do not look like a Plymouth White Rock, they have the look of a Cornish x Rock. The chest area is very wide. They stand up more, like a Cornish. If you want to see photos of birds like this look on the meat section of this site.
Here is a link to a thread with some feeding info:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cornish-rock-meat-bird-breeding-project.1400633/

i put food out in their feeder and they ate some and then left it alone and know their eating. surprisingly they didn't eat all of it so its still there for them

 

[Parront]

i thought that the reason why they would lay down when they were little when they had feed 24/7 is because they are also used as meat birds that how meat birds were feed and at the time they did not go outside

You can get eggs, if you do what you did and starve them. But they are not great egg layers. If you feed these birds all they can eat, you eat them when they are 6 weeks old. I raised them until 10 - 12 weeks old and they were over 10 pounds after I cleaned them. They lay down and eat all the time, other chicks will not do that, no mater how much food there is.

 

[mommiesrcool]

You can get eggs, if you do what you did and starve them. But they are not great egg layers. If you feed these birds all they can eat, you eat them when they are 6 weeks old. I raised them until 10 - 12 weeks old and they were over 10 pounds after I cleaned them. They lay down and eat all the time, other chicks will not do that, no mater how much food there is.

but they aren't laying down they only lay down around 12 pm- 4 pm because that when it gets REALLY hot i just free feeded them and they ate and are running around

 

[mommiesrcool]

You can get eggs, if you do what you did and starve them. But they are not great egg layers. If you feed these birds all they can eat, you eat them when they are 6 weeks old. I raised them until 10 - 12 weeks old and they were over 10 pounds after I cleaned them. They lay down and eat all the time, other chicks will not do that, no mater how much food there is.

also at 6 weeks old they still had lots of feathers

 

[NatJ]

but they aren't laying down they only lay down around 12 pm- 4 pm because that when it gets REALLY hot i just free feeded them and they ate and are running around

It looks like you have cornish cross chickens, the only kind that sometimes do need to have their feed limited. (Based on the way they look, and based on them laying down to eat when they were younger, before you started limiting their feed.)

They may have finally figured out what amount is right to eat. Or not.

You will probably just have to pay attention to how they act, and you may end up switching back and forth between free feed and limited feed, depending on how they are doing at what time.

For new chicks, if you get Rhode Island Reds, it should be fine to feed them as much feed as they want. Even if the store mis-labels the chicks, if they look red, they should be a kind that can handle free-choice feed.