Silkie chicks to small to eat crumble, tired of mashing it up

[Bryce Thomas]

I have 2 cockerels and 1 pullet, all are less than a week and a half week old or something, 1st one to hatch is a rooster, hatched on march 23rd. I don't know if they eat the crumble yet, I wet up the crumble, use my finger nails to scar it all up into tiny pieces basically the size of dust, and they are happy with it but never seem to eat crumble, I know the 2 baby roosters are large enough to eat it but they don't seem to, the pullet it definitely too small to eat the crumble, any suggestions?

 

[Cecisflock]

I have 2 cockerels and 1 pullet, all are less than a week and a half week old or something, 1st one to hatch is a rooster, hatched on march 23rd. I don't know if they eat the crumble yet, I wet up the crumble, use my finger nails to scar it all up into tiny pieces basically the size of dust, and they are happy with it but never seem to eat crumble, I know the 2 baby roosters are large enough to eat it but they don't seem to, the pullet it definitely too small to eat the crumble, any suggestions?

How do you know your silkies are sexed that young? All of my birds eat like champs, can't help u there

 

[wordgirl]

A couple possible ideas: Throw a few handfuls in a gallon ziploc bag and roll over it with a rolling pin until fine enough. Or toss a cup or two in a food processor and blitz it a few times.

 

[Byrd gal]

I use a bean grinder and wet it

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I used a few bags around the crumbles and then hit it with a hammer outside to smash it. Also good when you're mad about something

 

[Bryce Thomas]

How do you know your silkies are sexed that young? All of my birds eat like champs, can't help u there

The boys have wattles and the girls just seem like they dont ever have a wattle, the boy develop adult wing feathers within a few weeks, I have looked at their posture and vent sexed them, I know who is who by vent sexing it is 100% fool proof

 

[Cecisflock]

The boys have wattles and the girls just seem like they dont ever have a wattle, the boy develop adult wing feathers within a few weeks, I have looked at their posture and vent sexed them, I know who is who by vent sexing it is 100% fool proof

you cant vent sex pure silkies...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

And posture doesnt eeally mean anything and both sexes have wattles

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

you cant vent sex pure silkies...

I believe you can, it’s just very difficult.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The boys have wattles and the girls just seem like they dont ever have a wattle, the boy develop adult wing feathers within a few weeks, I have looked at their posture and vent sexed them, I know who is who by vent sexing it is 100% fool proof

Vent sexing, even done by professionals, is only 80-95% accurate.