[Jo57]

Hi...sorry yet more questions relating to growing chick. Chick and mum have been on chick crumbs for 4 and 1/2 weeks as well as free ranging more and more for last week when chick has been tucking into what ever it can find including layers pellets with mum Minnie as well as the chick crumbs which have been always available in the little coop. This evening Minnie and chick have gone to bed in the main coop and look very smug and settled there. If I now need to be giving growers pellets to just the chick how do you think I can target her without greedy Bess eating those instead of the layers pellets she needs. All seem happily integrated so far although Bess hasn't yet noticed them in the coop she has had to herself since Minnie and Mo went broody. As I keep saying...always something to be mulling over and worrying about ....and that is without my new little hatchlings...

[ANHBUC]

That is a tricky one.  The chick should be on chick crumb until 6 weeks and whatever when freeranging.  Then growers pellets until POL.  Layers pellets as I understand it are not good for chicks. 

Can you have mum and chick in a separate enclosure for the day time so they have the right food.  Mum is fine eating the same as the chick, she doesn't need layers when she is not laying.   

[Casey76]

A few weeks on growers pellets won't hurt a laying hen, just make sure they are ACS free if you want to keep eating the eggs

Alos make sure that there is plenty of oystershell available at all times.  You may notice that Bess gains a little weight eating growers pellets, but als long as you reduce treats it should balance out.