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18 Happy healthy busy baby chickens

I basically just keep food and water out all day. But I like to make them a little power snack in the middle of the day that they'll easily wipe out and no more than 10 minutes just for the nutrition.

Well I meant germs by like putting chopped up scrambled eggs and stuff like that that sit there all day and don't get eaten. I try to keep my little power meals small enough they devour it and don't spread it all over the brooder so it turns to a D-rated kitchen 🤣

My 18 children💗

Okay so I've always, since about 2 years in done medicated chick food. But I'm doing some reading on here and I'm understanding how useless that is before they are exposed to the environment it helps with. And it makes sense considering what I already know. So now I'm trying this. I'm starting...

It finally died for good the next day. It was wonky from the beginning and was just failing to thrive. I did everything I could. But yeah it blew my mind too and I read about it and yeah they can appear dead from being hypothermic and come back after being warmed. But there was no way to stop...

3 days old❤️ 18+1

Bebes❤️

HOOWW IS THIS BABY STILL ALIVE!? So I get up this morning and all the chicks are out because I moved them from what I call the crib to their big brooder. Apparently the little runt ran out with them but since they were busy running around instead of huddling on it it chilled. I found it laying...

Well I have 19 out of 22 chicks. The last one didn't hatch.

I put it in there a couple hours short of two days after the others. Last one pipped around 5:30 two days ago. 🤞🏼

Nothing yet😩

The little runt is doing better after all the syringe reading. Even came out and ate by itself this morning. Fingers crossed for a pip on that last egg today

The little one seems to be getting tiny bits of strength each time I take it out. I try to keep it under 5 minutes and just get some sustenance in. I'm going to assume it's like wildlife rehab and every 1 to 3 hours is crucial at first. And I guess that's the best I can do. The little bag turned...

It was almost but not quite 48 hours after the others