What To feed

[Celtic Chick]

Tractor Supply carries many different size bags and brands of chick feed which are essential to the proper development of healthy chickens, from $4.99 to 12.99, from a 5 lb.bag to 50 lbs.
Purina

Start & Grow

SunFresh

Recipe is a feed that can be fed to your chicks free-choice from hatch until laying age (18-20 weeks). If you do not want to feed them medicated feed, Purina Flock Raiser is unmedicated.
http://www.tractorsupply.com/livestock/livestock-feed/poultry-feed/
A proper feeder will keep food waste to a minimum. This one is $2.50. A tray runs $4.99.
http://www.tractorsupply.com/livest...farms-baby-chick-feeder-for-quart-jar-2106331 =$2.50
http://www.tractorsupply.com/livestock/livestock-equipment/chicken-equipment/
Please read TSC website on chick care. Some people do not care for TSC as a store, but their knowledge on livestock and their care is very helpful.
http://www.tractorsupply.com/content/knowhow/chicks/livestock_care_caring_for_new_chicks#three
http://www.tractorsupply.com/conten.../livestock_care_raising_poultry_expert_advice

 

[Celtic Chick]

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If you are serious about taking good care of these animals, then yes, you need to buy them the proper food. Yes, they can eat table scraps, when they are grown and as a supplement to their own food, but this is a helpless,growing baby creature and needs to be cared for as such. It is not a garbage disposal. Chick starter should not be as expensive as what you saw wherever you were shopping, call around to some feed stores and get those poor babies what they need.

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[Fred's Hens]

$80 for a 50# bag of crumbles is insane, however. At a true, rip-off price, it would be $20. Average price is more like $16.

 

[kman cloquet]

Thankyou so much all your comments were very helpful.What do you guys think about amazons prices.Here is a link to the feed I think I will buy.

http://www.amazon.com/Manna-Pro-Chi...6KBS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1303084752&sr=8-2

 

[chickiepie]

By the time you pay shipping for an equivalent amount of feed, you will be paying about $20 more for starter by ordering on Amazon. Call around any place you can. I don't know how close you are to PA but there are feed stores in Bucks County, PA if you can't find something close enough in Jersey.

 

[Fred's Hens]

I know because you only have a half dozen or so chicks you might be struggling over the concept of them actually eating 50# of feed. Truly? Yeah!!! They will.

Once they are 6-8 weeks old, you'll be astounded just how fast they chow their way through that 50 pound bag. You'll be buying a 50 pound bag every three/four weeks forever to feed them as adults, if they are full size birds.

You really need a source. Shipping/handling on bulky feed like this is expensive and costs as much as the feed itself. Hopefully, if you were to post a thread saying, "Feed Store Near XXXXX NJ" You might get some "neighbors" to steer you in the right direction. Good Luck.