New peachicks, I have questions!

[PeaShack]

I put a little dish of chick grit in with them but they started eating it like it was crumbles, so I took it out. I hope they didn't eat too much. They only had access to it for a couple seconds. Ugh...

Probably shoulda just sprinkled a little on the floor for em. I'll wait a few weeks and try that before I offer them a little bit of cut up mealworms.

This is my first time raising peachicks as well. Have 4 spaldings I hatched from eBay eggs (fantastic seller, if any one needs that info let me know). Mine just turned 4 weeks old.

I still have them on gamebird starter 30%. They will eat the dry crumbles but still cry and beg for their crumbles to be wetted down to a mash.

I tried to give them some dried meal worms to eat out of my hand and they just sampled and flung around.

I don’t have them on seed or vegetable matter as I have only just introduced them to their dust bath (when they come out, not kept in their brooder pen full time yet). For the indoor dust bath I use multipurpose sand that has different size grains and small pebbles so it doesn’t clump up easily. They did sample the sand and figured out the bathing immediately. (See pic).

Once they have the dust bath in their pen, it will double as a grit source (this has worked well for my chickens and quail in the past).

Mine are in the house and the plan is to keep them there till they are 12 weeks…will see how that works out . After that, will do outdoor field trips until outside full time. I don’t have them on medicated feed yet…but will start prior to going outside.

I have to say these guys are VERY different from raising chickens and quail.