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Understand Chick Growth and Sanitation Needs

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Raising your own food..So what's next? Helpful tips for your new baby birds!!

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The presenter introduces a batch of 50 Cornish cross chicks, noting that they are one week old. He humorously describes them as 'little eating and pooping and drinking machines' that generate a 'poop disaster,' requiring daily (or even more frequent) cleaning of their brooder. This highlights the constant need for sanitation in a chick-raising environment to prevent accumulation of waste and potential health issues.

Goal: Learn about the rapid growth and significant waste production of Cornish cross chicks, emphasizing the daily need for brooder cleaning to manage 'poop disasters' and maintain a healthy environment.

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through it and we'll talk about it it involves a lot of poop so we got the Cornish cross chickens and basically they're just little eating and pooping and drinking machines we got 50 chicks we're getting to the point where we're going to have to move them to our outside mobile coop we'll take you and show you that and this is our coop for our laying hens once again be sure and subscribe because we'll have a lot of great chicken advice for you we'll have a lot of stuff to do with the hatchery and we'll learn a whole lot together so let's go and we'll check out the baby chicks and we'll show you the poop disaster I've been cleaning the brooder every day it doesn't matter every six hours probably wouldn't matter these birds are eating and pooping so let's go up and talk about them while we're on

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