When Can You Give Chicks Bugs/Table Food, Etc.?

[mmclaughlin]

Mystery solved then

 

[Papas Chickens]

lol, nice set up though, just get some well wire and put it around the bottom and they will stay in.

 

[gander007]

These are 3 foot sides on this box and I watch my chicks fly over them and they were less then 2 weeks at the time and at two weeks only my smallest of chicks could get out of a chicken wire fencing and my Marans chicks by the end of the first week would never be able to get through and mom, ma pullet here has hatched out chicks from Marans, Russian Orloff, Road Island Red, Molted Houdan & some Easter Egger chicks and she really don't play favorites just play's Mom, ma hen........

 

[Viollettt]

I raised my 1st 6 chicks inside ...always so careful about temperature water cleanliness and what i was feeding
now I have let a broody hatch eggs, I have seen mom tell and teach this chick what to eat and how to forage,.. let me just say mom isn't as picky as I was!! 3 weeks it eats everything mom does (I did change the flock feed to starter) Had them in the grow out pen but mom decided they wanted to be with the big girls...flew over a 4ft fence both mom and baby...still not sure how that happened lol!!
nature .... a wonder sometimes!!

I have a broody hen with two chicks that regularly gets on top of a seven foot gate. With the chicks. I couldn't believe it either until I watched her do it. When they are done they all fly down. The chicks were two weeks old when she started doing this with them. I was scared the chicks would get hurt getting down but no they do just fine. This is her first time broody so I guess she doesn't know the rules.

 

[Papas Chickens]

gander007 i see your from Death Valley, when i was young the family and i would travel threw there to get to my grand parents house in Bishop Cali. I would love to see those chicks get on top of a seven foot fence lol.

 

[gander007]

gander007 i see your from Death Valley, when i was young the family and i would travel threw there to get to my grand parents house in Bishop Cali. I would love to see those chicks get on top of a seven foot fence lol.

Oh ya Bishop is nice have some trout in the freezer from fishing up at a friends cabin on the July 4th weekend it is so nice up there ..

 

[Papas Chickens]

My grandparents had a big catfish pond out there that we use to fish in they had some huge cats in there.

 

[gander007]

Yes they do have some big catfish but with all the crowding up there now we just get the limit on Trout and call it a day .....

 

[Papas Chickens]

I miss fly fishing for trout i use to live in Idaho and went fly fishing with my uncle on the snake river.

 

[gander007]

Will that would be nice to be able to go fishing in the Snake River at least once ,, sounds like you really get around to go fishing I really find it hard to do any more and it is nice to get the kids to do the driving anymore .....