CHICK CARE & BROODER TIPS

· Dip their beaks in water to get them drinking.

· Make sure you are using warm water for the 1st few hours. Not cold water.

· Check them often to ensure they are eating, drinking, and comfortable.

· Noisy chicks are unhappy chicks, cold or hungry.

· Pasty Butt indicates chicks that are too hot, stressed, or dehydrated.

· Brooding area should smell fresh – no ammonia odor.

· Place chicks under the heat source as quickly as possible

· Huddled chicks are cold chicks.

· Evenly spread out are comfortable chicks

· Noisy chicks are cold chicks.

It is very common for birds to groom or pick at themselves. Baby chicks will pick at one another if they are too hot, without fresh air, or overcrowded. Sometimes a bright light will cause picking to occur in chicks. Switch to a red bulb, this may help.

To treat the chicks that have been picked, use Pick-No-More Lotion on the injured area until healed.

Lethargic chicks or Stressed: Mix a Vitamin & Electrolyte in their water

Weak, Droopy, Diarrhea, Pasty Butt: Use Amprol, Corid, EndoCox, or Sulfamethazine