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[WestKnollAmy]

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Oh my yes! You need to expand that project because these are supposed to be so great for chicks. I plan on taking a few down to the brooders in a few minutes just to watch and hear them race around with "look what I got and none of you can have any!" I can't stand it! I have to sacrifice a few!

 

[Moonchild]

You'll have to give us the details on how u raise the worms Nadine! I bet the chicks will love them!

I had to kill my first black snake yesterday. It was in the coop. I normally will not kill black snakes but it was just to comfortable in the coop so it had to go!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Oh my yes! You need to expand that project because these are supposed to be so great for chicks. I plan on taking a few down to the brooders in a few minutes just to watch and hear them race around with "look what I got and none of you can have any!" I can't stand it! I have to sacrifice a few!

When we move hay, I grab some...my silkie chicks love them

 

[TheMadChickenLady]

confession time...
My 17 happy chicklets are now 21!

I went by The Feed Bucket to get some chicken feed, and they had babies the exact same age as my babies in the brooder! How could I resist? (especially after learning that they were all girls!)
So, of course I ended up coming home with a shoebox containing 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Barred rocks...

As to raising mealworms... are they just a chick treat? or is there some other benefit?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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So far I like watching the meal worms consume all the potatoes. I am finding only potato peels just since this morning. They are working on apples and cukes now. I will add carrot tomorrow. Leah saw them when she came home and said"Eeewwww!" but started playing with them. And I already have some pupating!

I gotta buy another tub but I am still working out the details in the midst of all the other stuff I have going on.
I think Dick has been doing it a few months so he knows a lot more than I do about it.

Snake! OMG! I have got to get more sulfur put out. That is the biggest way I lose chicks and sometimes even half grown banties.

Meal worms are high in protein so they are a very nutritional treat for chicks. Just like a lot of bugs and grubs they get when free ranging. However, some people spice up the mealies with starter and vitamins to make them even better for feeding.

 

[Lroach711]

Anyone in the upstate interested in blue orpington roosters, I'll have at least 3 that I will need to rehome. I'm only planning on keeping one. A couple are about 6 weeks old and I know I have at least one that is 4 weeks old. PM me if you're interested

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Here is a photo of the hatch mates that were not raised together for a few weeks. I had 2 Javas in with the Cayuga and the other 6 in with other chicks. You see the difference the niacin made?

 

[Lroach711]

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wow!

that is a huge difference!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Really big difference. That's crazy!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

And the only difference was that I put Niacin in the water for the one that is bigger and I put a different mixture of vitamins in the other waters.
I have long said that the vit/electrolytes were a waste of money so I don't use them.
I do however, use A-D-E and it does boost the immune system. I also use vinegar/garlic in the water twice a week. So the chicks get plain water once or twice a week but more often with something added to the water.
I have now added Niacin to the water twice a week.