Too much egg yolk?

[spryng]

My 13 little chicks are now 4 days old and thriving! So love spending time with them everyday. The hatchery (cackle) told me to help build immunity and health to feed them crumbled boiled egg yolk on top of their medicated chick feed each day. Well I do it in a separate little dish just so it doesn't make the feed go bad if they don't eat it all. So anyway, what they didn't tell me was how much they could have. Right now I give them one mashed up yolk in the evening and they go ape crazy over it and finish it all pretty fast. Could I give them one in the mornings too? Of course they still mun

ch on their chick feed all through the day but man they really love that egg yolk. So it's 1 egg yolk mashed up for 13 little chicks. For those of you that feed them yolks too... how much and how often? I'd love to give them a morning treat of yolk as well but not if it's too much protein or something. Thanks!
Picture of my little fluffies sleeping away this morning.

 

[azygous]

For that many chicks, a yolk in the am and another in the pm won't be too much. Beyond the first week, this should no longer be necessary.

The yolk is good protein but if you want them to have lots of good nutrients to build healthy chicks, ferment their chick starter. If you really want something to build immunity, dig up a small clump of grass with soil attached, focusing on new tender grass, not woody stemmed, and place that in a pie pan and put it in the brooder. The dirt has all sorts of healthy microbes that will program their immune systems to resist many kinds of bacteria and protozoa.

 

[spryng]

For that many chicks, a yolk in the am and another in the pm won't be too much. Beyond the first week, this should no longer be necessary.

The yolk is good protein but if you want them to have lots of good nutrients to build healthy chicks, ferment their chick starter. If you really want something to build immunity, dig up a small clump of grass with soil attached, focusing on new tender grass, not woody stemmed, and place that in a pie pan and put it in the brooder. The dirt has all sorts of healthy microbes that will program their immune systems to resist many kinds of bacteria and protozoa.

Good to know! Thank you so much!