| you will need medicated chick starter, preferably NOT Purina. Try to get the chick feed marketed by your local co-op or independent feed store. You need the quart size water dispensers, several of them. Give them bottled water if that is what you drink yourself. Change the water every couple of hours as it gets food dropped into it, and sours quickly. You can feed in whatever low container you wish, I use the red base from a waterer.. Your heat lamp should be red so the chicks can sleep while it's on. Your post office will call you early the morning your chicks arrive. Hopefully, you can go right in to pick them up from the back door without having to wait for your PO to be open for regular business. They will not be delivered by your carrier, you must go in and get them. Did your order the GroGel when you ordered the chicks? If not, email your hatchery and tell them you want 2 packets. Mixing directions are on the package. That is the first thing you feed your chicks, before you start chick feed. The packets will be under the address label/packing slip, not in the box with the chicks. You should only need to use 1 packet. Save the other one. Keep their floor clean, you will go through a lot of paper towels. Is your container to be used in the house a plastic tub? If it's paper, it will absorb all the sloshed water and become wet. I have gone to using a plastic storage tub. Enjoy your new babies! Georgia in Lower Alabama --- On Wed, 4/28/10, Sgt_Cude <sgt_cude@hotmail.
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