- Mar 30, 2011
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It has been a long time since I've had baby chicks hatch. Can someone remind me what I need to do? I should buy a red heat lamp; right, and put the chicks in a tall cardboard box lined with newspaper and pine shavings? I should put a grate atop the box so they don't fly out? Temperature at 95 degrees F for how long? Vitamin mix in their drinking water for how long? When do I start giving them chick starter and for how long? I need to make sure their poop does not get plugged up inside them. Anything I am forgetting?
I am so excited. My Banty is to hatch 4 eggs of large-sized hens next Wednesday sometime. It will be staggered hatching -- 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday and one on Friday, so I'm thinking I will need to collect the first-to-hatch chicks and raise them inside in the cardboard box until the final chick hatches on Friday, so the Banty doesn't abandon the remaining eggs as soon as the fist chicks hatch?
All feedback will be appreciated.
I am so excited. My Banty is to hatch 4 eggs of large-sized hens next Wednesday sometime. It will be staggered hatching -- 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday and one on Friday, so I'm thinking I will need to collect the first-to-hatch chicks and raise them inside in the cardboard box until the final chick hatches on Friday, so the Banty doesn't abandon the remaining eggs as soon as the fist chicks hatch?
All feedback will be appreciated.