Before your chicks arrive at your home, make sure they are properly prepared to live outside. You have roughly four to five weeks to get everything ready, here is a list of things and tools you need to get as quickly as possible to get everything ready for the move to their new chicken coop.
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Chicken feeders and water dispensers: The best type of water dispenser you can get is one that automatically refills so you don’t have to worry about your chicks a day after they’ve had them. he made a move in the den. Make a practical plan so that the chickens cannot lift themselves in the drinking water and so that they cannot give up. Follow the same procedure in nursing, make sure that it does not overturn as much.
Food: Chicken feed is one of the easiest supplies available at most pet stores and farms supplies and are the perfect combination of minerals, vitamins, proteins, carbs and fats that baby chicks require. You can choose between conventional or organic types to get started. When your chickens start laying eggs there is also a feed trough available for this situation.
Scratch: Scratch, the digestion of corn, wheat, oats and rye, which is considered good for your chickens. You just throw your fingers on the ground to pick. Mind you, scrapie should not be just part of their diet as it is not rich in the vitamins and nutrients that chicks need.
Grit: Because chicks don’t have teeth, they need something else like sand or gravel to properly digest their food keep your chickens well and healthy. It provides a dusty surface for your chickens to walk around, in addition to absorbing droppings and odor. The nest must also be well pulverized, so that the lying eggs do not break when they fall on the floor of the nest. The most recommended mattress pad is pine wood and should be at least 1-inch thick.
Dust bath: If you plan to send your chickens from inside the coop then you won’t need to take care to prepare a powder bath for them. If he were to remain inside the cage throughout his life, then he would need a box about ten to twelve inches high, filled to a thickness of six inches evenly with road dust, ashes, and common soil sand. Chickens enjoy taking dust baths, because this is the easiest way for them to prevent parasites from catching lice and mites from living. feathers and legs.
