Introduce Baby Chicks to Brooder

here's our Chick Box it has holes in it Guys these chicks come from the Hatchery they ship it usually takes about 72 hours for them to ship to you typically you will have some birds that may not survive now this looks like we have no losses which is super cool guys don't be very hard on yourselves if you lose a baby chick sometimes baby chicks die they're very very fragile creatures so you need to understand that they're not toys don't let your kids drool all over them or handle them and wash your hands when you get done because there's a salmonella risk in here because salmon naturally occurs in the chicken's gut okay here we go just gently lower them right in there you go baby chicks peepers everywhere now let's look down inside this box this is the first poop okay it's called marconian it's going to be blue or green or black it's kind of gross looking right save this stuff okay so this is a synthetic straw that can be used for bedding for your chicks so hang on to it hang on to your chick boxes okay we're going to go ahead and put in another box these guys are really active already next box here and this is the reality I haven't seen in these boxes if we have any losses they will be in here looks like we didn't lose any chicks here guys birds of a feather birds of a feather flock together they like to be close they like to huddle up together birds of a feather like to flock together so when you think they're overcrowded they're not guys they enjoy being in a flock this is a flock animal now you guys will notice these chicks are very very curious little critters they're already pecking and digging and drinking water so you really don't have to do too much one chick is curious and where one chick pecks the other chicks go to so you see they're already drinking water now what you also need to know is that mother nature takes care of baby chicks after two or 3 days they do need feed but you think about a mother hen a mother hen hatches her chicks out and there could be 10 eggs or 15 eggs under a mother H and they're not all going to hatch on the same day so a baby chick can survive comfortably for 3 to 4 days without food or water the final contestants are here I do believe yep these are the Cornish cross meat birds they're a little bit bigger now there are fewer of these birds there's about 35 of them and you see how the Hatchery put this block in here so that they'd stay warm so that they could huddle together and that's how they stay warm in shipment…