what do you feed a baby chick that was abandoned?

Question

This is a baby chicken about two weeks old max. Probably younger.

Answer 1

Baby chickens can eat on their own from birth. They are not fed by their mothers. Just toss down some small scratch and it'll find it.

Answer 2

Go to your local feed store and ask for chick starter. It's pretty inexpensive, we get it for $0.50 a pound. Until they are a week old they need a light and the temperature kept at 90 ddegrees. Every week after that the temperature can be decreased by 5 degrees. Whatever you use for bedding needs to be kept clean along with the food and water. We use newspaper for bedding as they tend to eat wood shavings.Also, you can give it lettuce, worms, and other fruits and veggies once it's a little older. you will want to be sure to keep the pieces small, though. If you can't get it to drink, you can put something shiny into the water, like a dime. If it is weak add a little sugar to the water.

Answer 3

Go to your local ag supply store, and tell them you have a two week old chick to feed. They'll help you pick out the right feed to give to the baby- probabely a poultry grit, medicated if you don't plan on eating the grown chicken.

Here's some additional stuff its good to know:

* STEP 1: To teach chicks about feed, put a piece of newspaper under feeder, sprinkle a commercial feed on paper and fill the feeder the first day you get your chicks.
* STEP 2: Sprinkle baby grit on feed after the third day. Sprinkle lightly, as if you were salting your food.
* STEP 3: Dip each chick's beak into water before you place it in the cage. A 1-gallon chick waterer will water 50 birds.
* STEP 4: Provide a heat source (a light bulb) for chicks. Use one 250-watt bulb for 50 chicks in cold weather and one bulb for 100 chicks in warm weather.
* STEP 5: Place the light bulb about 18 inches above the floor.
* STEP 6: Leave room in the cage for chicks to get away from heat if it gets too hot for them.
* STEP 7: Maintain a temperature of 90 to 95 degrees F the first week; reduce by several degrees each week until you get to 70 degrees F.
* STEP 8: Place cardboard or empty feed sacks around the outside of the cage for a while to keep cool air from blowing on chicks.
* STEP 9: Place an inch of wood shavings, rice hulls or ground cobs on the bottom of the cage.
* STEP 10: Provide six square inches (1/2 foot) of space for each bird.

Tips & Warnings

* Use an additive in the water to ensure a healthy start for your chicks.

Four Weeks and Older
Instructions

* STEP 1: Increase floor space to nine square inches (3/4 foot) of space per bird.
* STEP 2: Add another waterer.
* STEP 3: Use a grit feeder to feed free-choice grit. You may need to go to the next size of grit - check with your feed store or pet store.
* STEP 4: Allow chickens to go out into a fenced pen on warm, sunny days.

Overall Tips & Warnings

* Watch for sick birds, and treat them or remove them from the flock.
* Do not use cedar chips, sawdust or treated wood chips for bedding.
* Never let chicks run out of water.

Answer 4

From one day to 4 weeks old
* STEP 1: To teach chicks about feed, put a piece of newspaper under feeder, sprinkle a commercial feed on paper and fill the feeder the first day you get your chicks.
* STEP 2: Sprinkle baby grit on feed after the third day. Sprinkle lightly, as if you were salting your food.
* STEP 3: Dip each chick's beak into water before you place it in the cage. A 1-gallon chick waterer will water 50 birds.
* STEP 4: Provide a heat source (a light bulb) for chicks. Use one 250-watt bulb for 50 chicks in cold weather and one bulb for 100 chicks in warm weather.
* STEP 5: Place the light bulb about 18 inches above the floor.
* STEP 6: Leave room in the cage for chicks to get away from heat if it gets too hot for them.
* STEP 7: Maintain a temperature of 90 to 95 degrees F the first week; reduce by several degrees each week until you get to 70 degrees F.
* STEP 8: Place cardboard or empty feed sacks around the outside of the cage for a while to keep cool air from blowing on chicks.
* STEP 9: Place an inch of wood shavings, rice hulls or ground cobs on the bottom of the cage.
* STEP 10: Provide six square inches (1/2 foot) of space for each bird.


GOOD LUCK!!! BABY CHICKS ARE ADORABLE!!!

Answer 5

Regular chicken feed should be just fine! A chick starts to ground feed almost as soon as it hatches. The most important thing right now is to keep him warm and cozy! Good luck and enjoy!

Answer 6

i've got had this situation many situations. you will no longer be able to maintain it, because of the fact no be counted how plenty you feed it, that is going to in no way be sufficient. you will ought to deliver it to a flowers and fauna caretaker of a few style, like a rescue center. I the period in-between, in spite of the undeniable fact that, i recognize what to feed it. you could feed it frozen bloodworms from puppy shops like petsmart or petco. you could feed it bits of egg and watermelon. additionally, a stable nutrition for infant chicks is kitten chow dissolved in lukewarm water, then upload the bloodworms into it, mashed up. Feed the cat nutrition mixture to the poultry via a watch dropper. you additionally can use a watch dropper for the water. in case you fairly choose someting speedy, then you definately can mash up cooked vegetables, feed it bits of boiled eggs, or feed it bits of clean fruit. do no longer feed a sprint one poultry any seeds, like in parakeet nutrition! infant birds don't recognize yet a thank you to eat suitable and ought to choke on the seeds. ideas you, infant birds ought to eat a minimum of as quickly as each 2 or 3 minutes, and can't eat via themselves, so which you're able to have available feed it. wish this helps!

Answer 7

not sure dont farmers throw seeds on the ground and they peck at it and thay eat it that way ?

Answer 8

um lets think chicken feed DUH not the pelets or the one with corn