Properly organized meals for only been born chicks is of the utmost importance.It determines whether they will feel normal or begin to hurt.And of course, how quickly they grow up and start laying eggs.
just fledglings were born some time do not eat (8-10 hours), so you need to give them a place to stay before you organize feeding chicks.In the first days of life little livestock are particularly vulnerable, in need of warmth and light.Therefore, it is necessary to pick up their cultivation dry, warm place.If chicken little, the device of the house, you can use the old trough or inverted boxes, cartons of household appliances.Bottom littered with paper, newspapers or unnecessary cloth, with the expectation of regular change of bedding.Above the seat of the chickens must be lit around the clock lamp, but not bright, with subdued light.Suitable red lamp or lampshade made his own from a plastic bottle.
feeding day old chicks will require you to diligence and time.The first meal consists of cool boiled eggs (one at 25-30 units) that you want to chop or grind.The next meal is produced in two hours, and then with the same regularity.Feeding chickens in the first days of life takes place at night.The diet consists of millet porridge, boiled in milk, minced young grass.Well, if the types of food will alternate.
especially necessary to say about the drink.Feeding chickens in the first days of life is supplemented with milk.You can buy special drinking bowls for their little pets, but you can make them yourself.It would take a saucer and a half-liter jar.Pour the milk into the jar and cover half a saucer, reflected.The saucer will leak some milk from a can, it will gently flow into the saucer.It is important these days do not wet chickens, for them it is deadly.Unfortunately, today the situation is such that a very high percentage of mortality of chickens, so I advise giving them a drink of antibiotic to help cope with a variety of infections.As they grow, from him and no trace remains.
On the third day in the diet of your pet, you can make changes, start giving the flour mixture, pre-moisten it with milk, broth or water.Better, of course, use broth or yogurt.Feeding chickens in the first days of life have to include fresh herbs.If possible, obtain for them special children's feed, it will greatly simplify your life.Take for nestlings cheese, it is very useful to them.
When your pet is six days, you can add a separate bowl with the mineral feed and fine gravel and sand, and go into the water.Some vets recommend a 20-day-old to enter the potatoes in chicken breast.In the early days - the rate of 5 grams per day, and then increasing the amount.Older chickens should be accustomed to the raw potatoes.
These simple tips will help novice owners to raise healthy adult chickens, which will provide the whole family with eggs.
