FeynmanLectures
Hatching
- May 10, 2021
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Hello, firstly I want to say that I have 4 baby chicks of 2 and a half weeks old and that I feed and take care of them with my grandpa. I take care of the baby chicks by feeding them, giving them water and learning from internet information, like here, on how to raise the baby chicks, but my grandpa is very skeptical of internet information and he believes that because he worked in a farm in his 20s and gave rice to baby chicks, from what he remembers, he now can and should give rice to baby chicks, while from what I found while researching the topic was that I should not give rice to the baby chicks below 10 weeks old, so now I found out that the baby chicks had their crop swollen and when I go feel it, you guessed it, it was rice.
They ate full size rice grains and uncooked, not pieces or smashed rice, will they be fine?
- Baby Chicks (4), 2 and a half weeks old, normal size
- When they went to sleep they were a little moving, not moving as chickens with fast movements but fluid movement like humans
- It has been exhibiting that 1 day, I saw it at night and when I woke up I saw their crop smaller but not empty and still felt rice
- Seems that 2 didn't eat rice so they have their crop empty but the other 2 have it a little swollen from the rice
- No injury or bleeding
- The situation is expressed above this list
- It has been eating crushed almonds and some scrambled egg, but without my consent my grandpa gave them rice and corn pieces (the hard corn)
- It seems ok, the usual
- I haven't done any treatment, I found you should do nothing but I came here for guidance
- I hope you guys can help me
- Ill send a photo after writing this
- They sleep in a box with a water station and food dispersed around, then when is time to sleep a mantle is given to them (they do go outside, 2 or 3 times a day for about 30 to 60 minutes)
They ate full size rice grains and uncooked, not pieces or smashed rice, will they be fine?
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