{"id":27,"date":"2020-10-02T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:44:29","slug":"chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Caring for Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caring for Chicks<\/strong>
\nBy Anya Rushworth<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Materials:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicken heater<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chick food from Manna Pro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Water<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chick feeder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chick waterer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Small rocks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fabric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1″ binder clips<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aquarium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wood shavings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Towels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Put the aquarium where you want to keep chicks. Make sure it is a warm place in the house.<\/li>\n
  2. Put the towel in the aquarium. Make sure to cover the whole bottom and not bunched up.<\/li>\n
  3. Put the chick heater to the lowest setting and put it in the aquarium.
    \n\"chicks<\/li>\n
  4. Fill the feeder with chick feed and put it in the aquarium. Place the feeder away from the heater.<\/li>\n
  5. Put the rocks around in the waterer so the chicks cannot get wet or drown.
    \n\"rocks<\/li>\n
  6. Fill the waterer with fresh water and put it in the aquarium closer to the heater.<\/li>\n
  7. Put in chicks!
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  8. Cover the top of the aquarium with fabric. Hold the fabric down with the clips.
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  9. Every hour or so, you should check their feeder and waterer. If they are not full, put more in.<\/li>\n
  10. When the chicks get older and can move their towels, put in wood chips instead of towels.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Caring for Chicks By Anya Rushworth Materials: Chicken heater Chick food from Manna Pro Water Chick feeder Chick waterer Small rocks Fabric 1″ binder clips Aquarium Wood shavings Towels   Instructions: Put the aquarium where you want to keep chicks. Make sure it is a warm place in the house. Put the towel in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44],"tags":[4,3,6,5],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickensturkeys-ducks","category-farm-stuff","tag-caring-for-chicks","tag-chickens","tag-how-to","tag-how-to-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anya.rushworth.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}