Is feeding chicks hard boiled eggs ok?

[Teila]

3 days

x 2

About 3-4 days as long as they have access to grit.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

What is the youngest age any of you started to feed hb eggs?....

Hard boiled eggs and old fashion DRY oat meal is the first solid food mine get at 3 days old. Before this I give them a teaspoon full of baby chick grit. And of course weak sugar water or buttermilk to drink. If you will keep your biddies in the incubator or under the old hen till the 24th day you'll have much more lively and healthy chicks.

 

[HugHess]

Thanks chickengeorgeto,

I have my Orps (3 days old) under a full spectrum light w/heat lamp for 12+ hrs then red heat lamp at night....
Figured they will be under FS lightening until they are fully feathered and or I get their coop finished. I have to ask....why BUTTERMILK?
I have one quart feeder filled with crumble and one desert plate w/crumble and chick grit mixed in. These little shiznickies run all over the brooder putting my ADHD to shame! Lol. So I have yet to give them sugar water...
That's one thing that bugs me, would they not 'sleep' through the night under a broody? They do nothing but short naps. Funny to watch...sleep eat poop, repeat!
They also, from minute one, have never liked the 99 degree side of the brooder! Had to lift the heat lamp so they would enjoy more than half of the brooder...
Keep an actual gradient, or hurry up a build a huge brooder for six chickies! Hope it can be contributed to being hardy Orps!?!
Thanks again,

 

[haleychickmumma]

I haven't given my chicks sugar water either. They eat chick feed and plain water.
Have been experimenting with veges but they are not that keen on them yet. They did like the egg though but in small amounts.
Will just keep trying new treats.
Going to get some meal worms and start trying to do a bit of training as they have started to become difficult to get back into their box after playtime.

 

[farm316]

Yes my hens will crack their own eggs too eat them, we just make sure that eggs are collected every day

 

[Jacqdiva]

I also have a question. I have such a surplus of eggs, as I have around 60 guinea fowl on the property and am not incubating their eggs at present. So my 31 chicks get eggs every day just about. Am I doing the right thing?:yiipchick They go nuts about them.

 

[ShinShien]

i wouldn't feed them raw eggs of any type.

 

[Jacqdiva]

i wouldn't feed them raw eggs of any type.

The little terrors get scrambled!

 

[ShinShien]

sounds good. i feed mine their own scrambled eggs from time-to-time.