The cornish cross are three weeks old now. The six of them, collectively are drinking more than a quart of water per day, so we are using our larger, three quart waterer. The base is so large that we have to put it on a small wagon tire to keep the water clean (free of pooh and wood shavings). After a week or two, chicks have a tendency to dig through the savings, looking for things on the "ground" and it's a form of chip flicking that ends up sending those shavings everywhere, including into their feeder, as you can see in the photos below. There's feed under all those shavings, and they will get to it, but we have to dig threw the feeder before throwing a whole batch out and adding fresh feed every day. Normal (heritage) chicks do not eat and drink this much at this age. In about a week, we will start restricting the amount of feed, or they will over eat to the point of not being able to walk.
One of the chicks had a black spot on his/her tail end... now it has black on its wings. So, I guess we will always be able to tell that one, from the others.
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| All Six Chicks @ 3 wks |
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| Looks Like They Eat Shavings! |
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Have you heard the one about
two chicks walking into the bar? |
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So what is this stuff, anyways?
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