Raising_Healthy_Market_Chickens

Raising Healthy Market Chickens Raising Healthy Market Chickens On June 10th, 2003 we picked up ten baby chicks at the Geene County Fairgrounds. My sister, Shannon, who is also showing market chickens, was with me. My little brother, Ryan was also there along with my dad. We took turns choosing chicks from a box of chicks. We selected the chicks that looked healthiest, the ones that chirped a lot, looked full of energy and had good color. On the way home, we stopped at the feed store in Xenia. We bought 2 bags of Purina Mills, LLC poultry food. We had good luck with this food last year so we thought we would use it for our chickens this year. When we got home, we crushed the feed for the chicks to eat. We crushed their food for the first week so the chicks could swallow the food easily. We used a quart watering jug and a cut off plastic cup for a feed pan. Fortunately, for us, we already had the following equipment from our last years 4-H project. The equipment included: (2) 1qt water bottles; 1 long metal feed tray; 1 heat lamp; 2 large gallon water, chickens, feed, chicks, food, jugs, pen, first, out, milk, lamp, heat, gallon, fresh, week, watering, two, top, tarps, take, show, market, good, feathers, cut, bottles, bedding, we, year, wire, warm, very, tray, side, several