(Not looking for advice just telling my story.)below is my before pic...
I received mail ordered some chicks from Meyer Hatchery they were on the road 2 days, after they hatched. When the chicks arrived I held each chick as I dipped their beak into a tiny cup of yolk water.(the yolk water was NEVER left in the brooder, just mentioning this so people won't go into a tizzy, also wish I didn't have to say this at all but anyone putting anything up know what I am saying. sigh.) THEN I would dip their beak separately in their plain waterer and set them in brooder on the tiny chick quilts and beds I make, then put a few baby chick food on the bed for them to eat until they got used to eating from a feeder. One chick "Honey" a SS, was acting sleepier than the others she kept her eyes closed all day, didn't eat, but did get sips of yolk water, I always made sure it was fresh. And not in the brooder... (the above pic was the chick 9 hrs after it was home.) One day and 1/2 later the below pic, chick is now eating and hopping about, and has a messy chin.
Looks fat but it is a bad angle, she wanted me to delete that pic, I told her it is fine.
I received mail ordered some chicks from Meyer Hatchery they were on the road 2 days, after they hatched. When the chicks arrived I held each chick as I dipped their beak into a tiny cup of yolk water.(the yolk water was NEVER left in the brooder, just mentioning this so people won't go into a tizzy, also wish I didn't have to say this at all but anyone putting anything up know what I am saying. sigh.) THEN I would dip their beak separately in their plain waterer and set them in brooder on the tiny chick quilts and beds I make, then put a few baby chick food on the bed for them to eat until they got used to eating from a feeder. One chick "Honey" a SS, was acting sleepier than the others she kept her eyes closed all day, didn't eat, but did get sips of yolk water, I always made sure it was fresh. And not in the brooder... (the above pic was the chick 9 hrs after it was home.) One day and 1/2 later the below pic, chick is now eating and hopping about, and has a messy chin.
Looks fat but it is a bad angle, she wanted me to delete that pic, I told her it is fine.
