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These links may be interesting
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

Any questions that you may have regarding your chicks will be best posted here - http://www.backyardchickens.com/f/11/raising-baby-chicks

This is a useful link of BYC guides to take a look at announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3 (there's a guide on how to include your location under your avatar - including your location is very helpful). You can use this link to contact members in your area - Find your State's thread.

Best wishes

Pork Pie
 
Thanks all for the welcome and well wishes. I'll post chick pics soon in my thread in the baby chicks section. So far things seem to be going well. One chick was already hatched and dry when I went to check around 9 another egg was pipped and now a second egg has pipped. I expect a few wont start til tomorrow. Hoping for a good number of the 11 to hatch.
 
I have crumble and have put a dish of that and water container in the coop. Water is in s container with crisscrossed rubber bands to prevent them falling in.
I do have oyster shell and throw that out with scratch weekly. My chickens roam the yard and forage so they dont eat much from the feed I provide. I think they consider it more of a treat.
Thanks for the pointers!


ChickenCanoe said:
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You don't really need to do anything except put the entire flock on a starter/grower feed or All Flock crumbles. You don't want the chicks eating layer feed. The rooster will be better off too since he doesn't lay eggs.
If other birds are laying eggs, provide crushed oyster shell in a separate container for them to compensate for their calcium needs.
Provide a food and water container the chicks can access. The mother will do the rest of the work.
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