Out of the Box

Backyard Poultry

Feeding Chicks

The one disadvantage to such stream-lined housing was that we didn't have to have as much contact with the chicks. The box was too deep to see the chicks very well, and was so big it could not be kept in the kitchen. Of course my sister and I were always fishing out a couple chicks at a time to cuddle (until called inside to finish our chores). But even between two people it's hard to hold twenty chicks at once. So we developed a system of getting three or four chicks out at a time to run around in a small box set on top of the brooder. We tried to interest them with feed or snipped-up greens, but they still seemed pretty lost up there in the big wide world.

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