I need help with chick food please.

[Buckingham Palace]

i will try and get chick starter. just wondering if you grinned in down and added water would it be a healthy food? Thank you.

Newly hatched baby birds won't be able to eat that - if you had a way to grind it down to powder, then you could mix with water and offer that. Chicks really need chick starter. And no, the chicks shouldn't eat the adult's food, as it probably has too much calcium.

 

[Battlepants]

i will try and get chick starter. just wondering if you grinned in down and added water would it be a healthy food? Thank you.

It's really hard to say without a nutritional guide on the bag. They would be able to eat it, yea, but nearly impossible to say if they would do well on it without knowing what it contains.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

It's really hard to say without a nutritional guide on the bag. They would be able to eat it, yea, but nearly impossible to say if they would do well on it without knowing what it contains.

Yeah. Thank you. I will get chick starter.

 

[3KillerBs]

Also, with a feed like that that hasn't been ground to powder and processed into crumble the chicks would need grit to digest it.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

I did not know that. Thank you.

 

[NatJ]

The food my adult birds are eating is pellets could I add that in with this one.

Can you post a picture of the label for those pellets?
Depending on what is in them, they might be fine for chicks, or they might not be.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

I think it’s epol laying pellets . I do not have the bag. Sorry I can’t post pictures very bad internet will send picture of the food when it’s back up.

 

[NatJ]

I think it’s epol laying pellets . I do not have the bag. Sorry I can’t post pictures very bad internet will send picture of the food when it’s back up.

Laying pellets usually have too much calcium to be good for chicks, so probably not a good choice.

(Pellets are also too big for chicks, but they can be broken up into smaller pieces or soaked in water until they are soft. So the size isn't really a big issue. The problem is when they are nutritionally wrong.)

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Yeah. I did some research and read that. Getting some starter feed soon. Thank you all for the help

 

[Marie2020]

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I could someone please help me. I’m hatching Chicks and I asked my dad to get some growers mash and he bought this he told me it is definitely growers mash. But a while ago when I raised three silkie chicks they had stunted growth and the breeder said thus feed was the problem. I was wondering if any one could tell me what I could add to this to make it nutrious. It’s said fowl mix one on the bag. Thanks.

There's a lovely thread on shared ideas on foods too too keep our flock happy . I'm leaving this link incase you are interested here ...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ite-scrap-treat.1512525/page-14#post-25473419