A few Quail egg souffles, I just throw eggs in blender whole shells and all cook and feed them back to any laying birds. I always feed extra eggs back to my birds they love them, some eggs just get broken raw in pens for them to eat. Once cooked and bagged they can be stored with no waste and...
You're alright just let thread go. No need to apologize for things you were unaware of. And you had nothing, but good intentions just use it as a learning experience.
Grit is not calcium/oyster shell. Grit is rocks or granite to fill the gizzard to grind feed as they don't have teeth. All birds need grit to grind and digest feed. Calcium is usually a form of oystershells/eggshells and is needed to form eggshells. So, it is needed regularly for laying birds...
I would at least get a deposit/down payment before setting eggs to help insure pick-up. So you aren't stuck with hatchlings you don't want or can't raise. Isn't always as easy to get rid of chicks as some think.
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Except for whole-wheat flour, which contains all three parts of the wheat kernel, most flours are made from the endosperm after removal of the bran and germ. This decreases the nutritive value of the flour, as a large proportion of the thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin...
Most layer feed is usually on the low end of protein%, by adding all that scratch and bird seed you are drastically lowering the protein% and nutritional values of your feed.
Hopefully it works it should. And welcome to BYC there are some very knowledgeable folks here that are more than willing to help so don't be afraid to ask. :thumbsup
I dip their beaks in the water first and then as it is wet dip in feed to get a little on their beaks. This makes them taste it and they usually catch on quickly.
About all you can do is dip their beaks in the water then feed a few times a day until they get it. At only 3 days old they don't eat much and will help if you sprinkle a little feed on ground in your brooder box for them to pick at and they should eat.