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HOW TO IMPROVE SURVIVAL OF DAY OLD CHICKEN
Basic Care for Day Old Chicks:
  • Keep brooder temps at 95 F for the first week, decrease by 5 degrees each week until they are fully feathered.
  • Make sure there is room for chicks to get out of the heat.
  • Provide probiotics in their drinking water to establish healthy digestive systems
  • Keep food and shallow water containers clean and filled.
  • Make sure there are no drafts or sunny spots to cause temperature changes in the brooder area.
  • Make sure rodents, pets, or well-meaning children can’t hurt chicks.









Get Ready For Day Old Chicks: Before your chicks hatch or arrive at the post office, be sure to have their brooder area set up and tested for a couple of days. You don’t want to find out that your only heat lamp isn’t working when you get home with your babies. Water should be at room temperature so it won’t chill the chicks.


Keep Your Day Old Chicks Warm: If you are using a heat lamp, turn it on two or three days in advance so you can adjust the height to provide the proper temperature. If you only have a few peeps coming, consider keeping them in the house for a week or so to keep a close eye on them

The Best Temperature for Baby Chicks: For the first week of their lives, chicks should be kept in a brooding area that is 95 degrees Fahrenheit, with space to get out of the heat if they get too warm.

  • Week 1: 95 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Week 2: 90 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Week 3: 85 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Week 4: 80 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Week 5: 75 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Week 6: 70 degrees Fahrenheit

Each week you will need to reduce the temperature of the brooder 5 degrees F until the youngsters are feathered out. If you notice the chicks piling on top of each other under the heat lamp, they are too cold. Lower the lamp, use a warmer bulb (an incandescent bulb may not be enough) or add another heat lamp to the brooder. Keep a digital thermometer under the heat lamp and check it several times a day. Be careful not to adjust the heat lamp and then get busy with something else. It doesn’t take long for extreme temperatures to kill baby poultry.

Food and Water: Make sure your chicks have clean drinking water in a container that they can’t fall in and drown. Dip their beaks in the water when you first unpack them from the shipping box to teach them how to drink. Normally the mother hen would teach them this, but you’ll need to fill in. Be careful to dip just the tip of their beak into the water.

If you hatched your chicks in an incubator, you may wait until the day after they hatch to teach them to drink. They may learn on their own!

  • For the first day, give them water with probiotics only.
  • Too much sugar or electrolytes can cause pasty butt
  • Don’t use honey in place of the sugar, it can have a type of botulism that can kill baby animals.
  • Provide chick starter crumbles for your little peeps and watch to see if they eat.
  • If your chicks were vaccinated for coccidiosis, you should give them non-medicated feed.
  • If they aren’t showing any interest in their food, try clipping up some tiny pieces of lettuce on top of the crumbles.
  • For other types of baby poultry, check to see if starter crumbles contain enough protein.
  • Provide chick grit to help aid their digestion. I use chick grit with probiotics.


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