My chicks poop in their water and food. What to do?

[ChitownChick]

raise the waterer up on two bricks laid side by side. Then the water is at beak level and above butt level, lol. As they bigger, another layer of two bricks to raise even higher! Simple and it works.

 

[HenHouse4Life]

They have more room now. .. great job!! They will definitely need lots of room when they transition to outside. That's one thing I don't like about prefab, their recommendations on how many chickens will fit aren't really all that realistic. They must not have chickens
Chicks grow rather quickly so the sooner you get building the better off you and your flock will be.
Don't worry, you're doing a great job for diving right into the chicken world!
I would keep your brooders as is. .. they will only grow bigger and take more space .
Best wishes !

 

[rod5591]

I will be sending you a message that you can find in your inbox in just a few minutes with detailed descriptions of our plans

thank you!

 

[TheYLWFlock]

I'm having coop trouble too... with a coop I designed and built myself. Those premade coops are often too small and not amazing quality, despite the (yes..) amazing looks!

 

[GryffindorChick]

Also you should use medicated chick feed if their poo gets in their food.

 

[Mraya]

Just a general question that came to mind that maybe someone can answer. If you keep them separate and when it come times to put them together outside, will they do ok or will they need to be introduced to each other before combing them????

They should be ok they will all be in a new area there is no pecking order. Nobody was their first they will all start at the same level.

 

[rod5591]

raise the waterer up on two bricks laid side by side. Then the water is at beak level and above butt level, lol. As they bigger, another layer of two bricks to raise even higher! Simple and it works.

Great idea, and it worked well. Thank you

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Remember that truth is ageless and that there are advantages to rearing your peeps in a battery brooder. First the inmates of a battery cage are unable to defecate in their own food and water little less walking in their own filth. Furthermore battery reared chicks are mostly protected from contacting most external parasites as well as many internal parasites and assorted chicken diseases. For us the chickens keeper, things like free range etc is mostly about our sense of guilt about being conceived and born into this old world in the first place.

In fact free range chickens when left to their own druthers will eagerly eat and drink things that will gag-a-maggot not to mention choking a cockroach. That is why you see and hear so many hens and roosters with their assorted noises in poor Third World environments. The chicken will gladly eat and drink anything and everything that doesn't eat or drink the chicken first.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

They should be ok they will all be in a new area there is no pecking order. Nobody was their first they will all start at the same level.

Chickens all have a pecking order, at least the chicken flock that is not totally blind has a pecking order. The totally blind flock will peck any and every chicken that they inadvertently come into contact with. Pecking is the universal language of chickens. All strategies to suppress pecking behavior in a flock of chickens revolves around stressing the stronger members of that flock to the point that they become ÜNTER Chickens in the same respect that certain humans were treated as unworthy of living in the concentration camps run by Joseph Stalin and the NAZIS. So knock yourselves out but the pecking order is here to stay.