Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Pretty Chick on June 28, 2010, 19:37
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I've two 8 day old chicks who are doing really well :).
They are on chick crumbs at the moment (which they love :D) and was wondering - at what age should they be moved on to growers pellets?
I've only ever hatched 1 other chick before which was about a year ago and I can't remember at what age I moved him on to growers.
I'll be grateful if you can advise me when I should move them on to growers, so I can buy the pellets in advance.
Thanks :)
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at about 6 weeks you can start to change them over :)
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I start mixing some growers in with the chick crumb after 4 weeks and slowly wean them off the chick crumb, by about 6 weeks the are on growers full time, and at about 12 weeks do the same with corn to wean them off growers, hope this helps.