Description
This video shows how to rear healthy, good quality chicks from the time they hatch to when they are ready to begin training.
Topics include:
- First 72 hours after hatch
- Brooders
- Temperature and humidity
- Dealing with unretracted yolk sacs
- Rearing junior chicks
- DNA sexing
- Diets
- Problem chicks
- Identification and ringing
- Breeding records and pedigrees
Discussions explain how and when to:
- Foster chicks on to imprint parents
- Placing chicks with natural pairs
- Multiple broods
- Feeding regimes
