At three days old, mama has brought the baby out. I filled our hanging waterer and set it on a bucket lid. I think that'll be low enough for her to drink and small and shallow enough that it won't post a drowning hazard.
The chick already knows how to scratch! Something I've not yet gotten the brooder chicks to comprehend... Perhaps chickens learn better when taught by a chicken.
The rest of the flock is out doing chicken things and enjoying the fresh mowed areas of the forest while a few brief thunder showers roll through. This is a very gorgeous day.
Tomorrow I'm getting wood chips for the forest from @run.dog.farm . The more I think about it, the more excited I get.
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In our brooder, we teach them all to drink from the waterers, each one, all 90. But there's always one, in every flock that pecks the floor (that has food spread on it, on plain paper) and discovers food. Soon they are all pecking away. So we've never had to worry about teaching them food.
Once they have found the food on the floor, they inevitably find what's in the feeders, usually within 2 days. At that point we put bedding down (it's really needed by then) and put the feeders around the brooder and enclosure.
This year we have heaters and will not use the brooder. So we'll be figuring out a slightly different method.
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